JIANG ZEMIN
Mayor of Shanghai.
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1. Born 1927, Jiang is a graduate of the Electronics
Department of Shanghai's Jiaotong (Communications)
University.
specialised in mechanical engineering. On re-emerging
into public life after the Cultural Revolution, he was
for a time Vice-Minister of the two State Commissions
dealing with Foreign Trade and Investment. In 1982 he
was transferred to the Ministry of Electronics of which
he became Minister in 1983. He was posted as Mayor to
Shanghai in July 1985 to plan and supervise its
In the fifties and early sixties he
modernisation.
He is highly intelligent and speaks good
English with an American accent. He is said also to
speak Russian (he was Commercial Counsellor in Moscow
from 1950 to 1954) and Romanian. He has kept abreast of
the latest developments in science, particularly physics.
He is a friendly and agreeable person.
APPROXIMATE PRONUNCIATION
Jiang: pronounce djee-ang to rhyme with sang
Ze:
Min:
pronounce Zer to rhyme with her
pronounce min to rhyme with tin.
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