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Briefly General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002 and President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003.
Jiang earned a university degree in electrical engineering and began his career in the Communist Party while still a student. He spent years as a factory manager (even training at the Soviet Unions Stalin Automobile Works in 1955) before making his way into politics. By 1985 he had become mayor of Shanghai, a high-profile position which gave him an international reputation. He became General Secretary of the Communist Party of China in June 1989, cementing his position as the protege of and heir apparent to Deng Xiaoping. Jiang became President of the Peoples Republic of China in 1993, and assumed full leadership upon Dengs 1997 death. He stepped down as President in March of 2003 and was succeeded by Hu Jintao.
