BEIJING--Former President Jiang Zemin, who led China out of isolation after the army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989 and supported economic reforms that led to a decade ...

March 2003 – Limited to two five-year terms in office, Jiang steps down and Vice President Hu Jintao becomes president of China. March 2005 – Formally steps down as chairman of the Chinese ...

Xi is considered to be a protégé of former Chinese leaders President Jiang Zemin and Vice President Zeng Qinghong. Xi's father, Xi Zhongxun, was a top Communist who was imprisoned during the ...

While Jiang Zemin gave the impression of being a grim politician in public, behind the scenes, he showed a more friendly side in meeting with reporters. The former Chinese president died on Nov ...

No Chinese leader had set foot in Hong Kong for more than a century until then-president Jiang Zemin landed on the eve of the city’s historic return to Chinese rule on July 1, 1997, with a ...