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Portrait of Comrade Jiang Zemin issued by Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 30th

Communist Party of China Central Committee

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The State Council of the people's Republic of China

National Committee of the Chinese people's political Consultative Conference

Communist Party of China and Central military Commission of the people's Republic of China

Tell the whole Party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country

Communist Party of China Central Committee, the standing Committee of the National people's Congress of the people's Republic of China, the State Council of the people's Republic of China, the National Committee of the Chinese people's political Consultative Conference, Communist Party of China and the Central military Commission of the people's Republic of China, it is extremely sad to inform the whole party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country that our beloved Comrade Jiang Zemin is suffering from leukemia complicated with multiple organ failure, and the rescue is ineffective. Died in Shanghai at 12:13 on November 30th, 2022, at the age of 96.

Comrade Jiang Zemin is an outstanding leader recognized by our party and our army as an outstanding leader of all ethnic groups, a great Marxist, a great proletarian revolutionist, statesman, strategist, and diplomat, and a time-tested communist fighter. An outstanding leader of the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the core of the party's third-generation central collective leadership, and the main founder of the important thought of "three represents."

Since his youth, Comrade Jiang Zemin has studied hard, pursued the truth, and was enlightened by patriotism and democratic revolution. During his study in university, after actively participating in the anti-Japanese patriotic activities, Comrade Jiang Zemin formed a Marxist world outlook, completed the choice of life path, and finally established the life ideal and belief of striving for national liberation and the happiness of the people. After graduating from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1947, Comrade Jiang Zemin went to work in the factory, engaged in revolutionary propaganda among the masses of workers and among the professional young people in the evening schools of the Youth Association, and organized the masses of workers to carry out factory protection activities in 1949 to welcome the liberation of Shanghai.

In the early days of the founding of the people's Republic of China, Comrade Jiang Zemin successively served as the first deputy director of the Shanghai Yimin Food Factory, the first deputy director of the Shanghai soap Factory, and the head of the electrical specialty department of the Shanghai second Design Branch of the first Machinery Industry Ministry. In 1954, the state needed a large number of professional, technical and management cadres to build the first Automobile Factory in Changchun, and Comrade Jiang Zemin should be transferred to Moscow in 1955 for an internship at the Stalin Automobile Factory. After returning to China in 1956, Comrade Jiang Zemin was appointed Deputy Director of the Power Department, Deputy Chief Power engineer, and Director of the Power Branch of Changchun No.1 Automobile Manufacturing Plant. In 1962, Comrade Jiang Zemin was transferred to the deputy director of the Shanghai Electrical Science Research Institute of the first Ministry of Machinery Industry, where he was in charge of the scientific research leadership of the institute. In 1966, Comrade Jiang Zemin was transferred to director and acting secretary of the party committee of Wuhan Thermal Machinery Research Institute, and later secretary of the party committee to organize the design of atomic energy power generation equipment. After the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", Comrade Jiang Zemin was hit. In 1970, Comrade Jiang Zemin was transferred to the Ministry of first Machinery Industry, and in 1971 he was appointed chief of the expert group stationed in Romania by the Ministry of first Machinery Industry of China. After returning to China in 1973, he successively served as deputy director and director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of first Machinery Industry. In 1980, Comrade Jiang Zemin served as vice minister and secretary general of the State Import and Export Administration Commission and State Foreign Investment Administration Commission and member of the party leading group. in charge of the implementation of special policies, flexible measures, trial special economic zones and other pioneering work in Guangdong and Fujian provinces. In 1982, Comrade Jiang Zemin was appointed first vice minister and deputy secretary of the party leading group of the Ministry of Electronic Industry, and in 1983, he was appointed minister and secretary of the leading party group, and he made important contributions to the development of China's electronic industry. In September 1982, Comrade Jiang Zemin was elected as a member of the CPC Central Committee at the 12th National Congress of the Party.

In 1985, Comrade Jiang Zemin was appointed mayor of Shanghai and deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee. In 1987, Comrade Jiang Zemin was elected as a member of the political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee at the first Plenary session of the 13th CPC Central Committee. During his tenure as mayor and secretary of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee, Comrade Jiang Zemin led the broad masses of cadres and masses in Shanghai to uplift their spirits and have the courage to explore, to promote major breakthroughs in Shanghai's reform, opening up, and socialist modernization, and to make great progress in the development and opening up of Pudong, party building, spiritual civilization building, and social construction. A serious political storm occurred in China at the turn of spring and summer in 1989, and Comrade Jiang Zemin supported and implemented the correct decision of the CPC Central Committee on clearly opposing unrest, defending socialist state power, and safeguarding the fundamental interests of the people. we should closely rely on the broad masses of party members, cadres, and the masses to effectively safeguard the stability of Shanghai.

In 1989, at the fourth Plenary session of the 13th CPC Central Committee, Comrade Jiang Zemin was elected member of the standing Committee of the political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and general secretary of the Central Committee. In the same year, the Fifth Plenary session of the 13th CPC Central Committee decided to appoint Comrade Jiang Zemin as chairman of the military Commission of the CPC Central Committee. In 1990, he was elected chairman of the Central military Commission of the people's Republic of China at the third session of the Seventh National people's Congress.

Comrade Jiang Zemin is the core of the third generation of central collective leadership of the Party. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, serious political turmoil occurred at home and abroad, and there were serious twists and turns in world socialism, and the development of China's socialist cause was faced with unprecedented difficulties and pressures. At this major historical juncture that determines the future and destiny of the party and the country, Comrade Jiang Zemin led the party's central collective leadership, closely relying on the whole party, the army and the people of all ethnic groups, and taking a clear-cut stand to adhere to the four Cardinal principles. We will safeguard national independence, dignity, security and stability, unswervingly adhere to the central task of economic construction, adhere to reform and opening up, and safeguard the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. It has opened up a new situation in China's reform, opening up, and socialist modernization.

In the 13 years from the fourth Plenary session of the 13th CPC Central Committee to the 16th CPC National Congress, the international situation has changed, and the process of China's reform, opening up, and socialist modernization is magnificent. Under the very complex international and domestic situation, Comrade Jiang Zemin led the party's central collective leadership, held high the great banner of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory, unswervingly adhered to the party's basic line, United the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country, seized opportunities, deepened reform, expanded opening up, promoted development and maintained stability, and established the reform goal and basic framework of the socialist market economic system. It has established the basic economic system of public ownership as the main body, the common development of various forms of ownership, and the distribution system of distribution according to work and the coexistence of various modes of distribution in the primary stage of socialism. We have formulated and implemented a series of principles, policies and major strategies to promote reform, development and stability, and are determined to promote economic, political, cultural and other reforms, so as to create a new situation of all-round reform and opening up. We will implement the basic strategy of governing the country according to law, adhere to the principle of "peaceful reunification and one country, two systems", realize the smooth return of Hong Kong and Macao, adhere to an independent foreign policy of peace, and open up a new situation in diplomatic work. we will promote the new great project of party building, promote new progress in the building of socialist material civilization, political civilization, and spiritual civilization, and successfully push socialism with Chinese characteristics into the 21 century. Under the leadership of the third generation of central leadership of the party with Comrade Jiang Zemin at the core, we calmly deal with a series of international emergencies related to China's sovereignty and security, overcome difficulties and risks in the political, economic, and natural fields, and ensure that the ship of reform, opening up, and socialist modernization will always break through the waves in the right direction. The great achievements made by our party and state in the 13 years since the fourth Plenary session of the 13th CPC Central Committee are inseparable from Comrade Jiang Zemin's brilliant strategy, key role, and superb art of political leadership as a Marxist statesman.

During his tenure as chairman of the Central military Commission, Comrade Jiang Zemin had a profound insight into and grasp the major changes in the situation at home and abroad and the development trend of the new military reform in the world, and put forward a series of new judgments and new measures to strengthen the modernization of national defense and the armed forces. It enriches and develops Mao Zedong's military thought and Deng Xiaoping's thought on army building in the new period, and establishes Jiang Zemin's thought on national defense and army building. Great achievements have been made in leading the modernization of national defense and the armed forces. Comrade Jiang Zemin stressed that it is necessary to adhere to the principle of coordinated development of national defense construction and economic construction, strengthen the revolutionization, modernization and regularization of the people's army, and promote the building of the people's army in an all-round way in accordance with the general requirements of political qualification, military excellence, excellent work style, strict discipline and strong support, closely centering on the two historic topics of winning the war and not deteriorating. Unswervingly adhere to the party's absolute leadership over the people's army, always put ideological and political construction in the first place in all the construction of our army, always maintain the nature, character and work style of the people's army, implement the military strategic policy of active defense, promote military reform with Chinese characteristics, unswervingly take the road of elite troops with Chinese characteristics in accordance with the goal of building an information-based army and winning the information war, and realize the great-leap-forward development of our army's modernization. We should implement the strategy of strengthening the army through science and technology, persist in running the army strictly, run the army according to law, build the army diligently and frugally, explore the characteristics and laws of running the army under the new historical conditions, advance with the times, deepen the reform of the system of science, technology and industry for national defense, enhance the ability of independent innovation, speed up the development of national defense science and technology and weapons and equipment, and work out a way of military modernization with less investment and higher efficiency. In accordance with the policy of combining peacetime and wartime, combining the army with the people, and combining the army with the people, we should improve the ability of national defense mobilization, develop the strategies and tactics of the people's war under high-tech conditions, and consolidate the unity between the army and the government, the army and the people. All this is of long-term guiding significance for strengthening the modernization of national defense and the army.

Comrade Jiang Zemin adheres to the Marxist ideological line, respects practice, respects the masses, accurately grasps the characteristics of the times, scientifically judges the historical position of our party, and revolves around the theme of building socialism with Chinese characteristics. A series of new ideas, new viewpoints and new judgments have been put forward in the aspects of reform, development and stability, domestic and foreign affairs, national defense, and running the party, the country and the army. He has made outstanding contributions to upholding and developing the party's basic theory, basic line, basic program, and basic experience. In particular, he concentrated the wisdom of the whole party to create the important thought of "three represents", realized the party's guiding ideology of keeping pace with the times, and reflected the great political and theoretical courage of a true Marxist. The important thought of "three represents" emphasizes that our party always represents the development requirements of China's advanced productive forces, the direction of China's advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people. It follows the universal law of the development and progress of human history, conforms to the development trend of the times and the requirements of China's social development and progress, and reflects the interests and aspirations of the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country. It grasps the foundation of improving the party's ruling ability, consolidating the party's ruling position and accomplishing the party's ruling mission under the new situation. The most distinct feature and contribution of the important thought of "three represents" lies in that it further answers the questions of what is socialism and how to build socialism with a series of new ideas, viewpoints and conclusions that are closely linked and connected with each other. The creative answer to the question of what kind of party to build and how to build the party is the inheritance and development of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory. It has deepened our understanding of the laws of promoting the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and strengthening party building under the conditions of the new era.

Comrade Jiang Zemin attaches great importance to major strategic issues related to the cause of the party and the people. During the preparations for the 16th CPC National Congress, Comrade Jiang Zemin proposed on his own initiative that for the long-term development of the cause of the party and the state and for the long-term stability of the party and the country, he would no longer hold the leading post of the CPC Central Committee and retire from the Central Committee. in order to promote the replacement of senior leaders of the party and the state. The CPC Central Committee agreed to Comrade Jiang Zemin's request. Considering the complex and changeable international situation and the heavy tasks of national defense and army building at that time, the first Plenary session of the 16th CPC Central Committee decided that Comrade Jiang Zemin would remain chairman of the military Commission of the CPC Central Committee. After the first Plenary session of the 16th CPC Central Committee, Comrade Jiang Zemin fully supported the work of the new central collective leadership with Comrade Hu Jintao as general secretary and did his best to perform the duties entrusted to him by the CPC Central Committee. In 2004, proceeding from the overall situation of the long-term development of the cause of the party and the state, Comrade Jiang Zemin took the initiative to resign from his post as chairman of the Central military Commission of the party and the state, fully reflecting his foresight for the development of the cause of the party and the state.

After retiring from the leading post, Comrade Jiang Zemin resolutely supported and supported the work of the party Central Committee, cared about the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and firmly supported the building of the party's work style and clean government and the struggle against corruption. In 2006, Comrade Jiang Zemin personally presided over the editing and examination and approval of volumes I, II, and III of the selected works of Jiang Zemin. The selected works of Jiang Zemin mainly include the important representative and original works of Comrade Jiang Zemin from the late 1980s to the beginning of the 21 century, and provide important teaching materials for us to study and understand the important thinking of "three represents" more deeply. it provides important teaching materials for continuing to promote the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the new great project of party building.

Comrade Jiang Zemin is far-sighted, judging the hour and sizing up the situation, always observing and thinking about problems in the light of the general situation of the development of China and the world, proceeding from the overall work of the party and the state, and constantly promoting theoretical innovation and innovation in other aspects. Comrade Jiang Zemin is firm in conviction and decisive in doing things, always puts the party and the people in the highest position in his heart, and unswervingly adheres to the ideals and beliefs of the communists. he has the extraordinary courage to make bold decisions and the great courage to make theoretical innovations at critical moments. Comrade Jiang Zemin respects practice and keeps pace with the times, always firmly grasps the pulse and opportunity of the development of the times, insists on summing up experience and looking for ways from the living practice of the party and the people, and advances the work of the party and the state in a down-to-earth and pioneering manner. Comrade Jiang Zemin respects and cares for the masses, always pays close attention to the safety of the people, and tests and promotes the work on the basis of the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people. Comrade Jiang Zemin's excellent character and noble demeanor will always educate and inspire us to move forward.

The death of Comrade Jiang Zemin is an inestimable loss to our party, our army and the people of all ethnic groups in our country. The CPC Central Committee called on the whole party and the whole army to turn grief into strength, inherit the will of Comrade Jiang Zemin, and express our condolences with practical actions.

We must more consciously unite around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, adhere to the party's basic theory, basic line and basic strategy, and profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "two establishment." strengthen the "four consciousness", strengthen the "four self-confidence", achieve the "two maintenance", persevere in promoting the comprehensive and strict administration of the Party, and further push forward the new great project of party building in the new era. Lead the social revolution with the party's self-revolution, make our party stick to its original mission and always become the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

We must adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of "three represents" and the scientific concept of development, and comprehensively implement Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. we must persist in combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's concrete reality and with China's excellent traditional culture, and persist in emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, keeping pace with the times and seeking truth from facts. Dare to carry out theoretical exploration and innovation, and constantly open up a new realm of Sinicization of Marxism in the great practice of the new era, so that contemporary Chinese Marxism radiates a more brilliant ray of truth.

We must unswervingly adhere to the leadership of Communist Party of China, adhere to socialism with Chinese characteristics, persist in putting national and national development on the basis of our own strength, and firmly control the fate of China's development and progress in our own hands. unite as one to build a powerful modern socialist country in an all-round way, achieve the goal of the second century, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization We will promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind and create new forms of human civilization.

We must adhere to the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, firmly establish the mass viewpoint, implement the mass line, respect the spirit of people's initiative, and persist in doing everything for the people, relying on the people for everything, coming from the masses and going to the masses. we must always maintain flesh-and-blood ties with the masses and always share the same breath, destiny and heart with the people.

We must work hard to study the important thinking of the "three represents", study Comrade Jiang Zemin's revolutionary spirit and revolutionary demeanor, learn from his scientific attitude and creative spirit of using Marxist positions, viewpoints, and methods to study new situations and solve new problems, and work together to build China into a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful modern socialist country.

The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has condensed the painstaking efforts and struggle of generations of communists, including Comrade Jiang Zemin. On the way forward, the whole party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups should, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, comprehensively implement Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, carry forward the great spirit of party building, strengthen confidence, work with one heart and one mind, work hard and forge ahead courageously. Work together for building a modern socialist country in an all-round way and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in an all-round way.

Comrade Jiang Zemin is immortal!