People are always going to die, the key is how to live, how to live can be worthy of the time of this life, in order to die without regrets.
We don't know whether Jiang Zemin has any regrets, maybe he has, or maybe he doesn't, but one thing is for sure, he is absolutely worthy of these 96 years.
In 1989, the "June 4th" Tiananmen incident occurred in China. Zhao Ziyang stepped down. He was 63 years old and was close to retirement age. Jiang Zemin, who was ready to retire and become a university teacher, was favored by Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun and other political elders, and was promoted. Entering Beijing, he stepped onto the center of China's political stage and began his most brilliant political life.
From this day until his death, he was a topical figure in Chinese politics and a traffic star in international media.
During this period, at least half of the time, he was the nominal or de facto supreme leader of China, the core of the third-generation leadership of the Communist Party of China.
On December 31, 1998, Jiang Zemin delivered a New Year speech.
(Xinhua News Agency)
In the political arena of the Communist Party of China, it is not so easy for a person with Jiang Zemin’s background to gain a foothold in this position, especially at the time when his two predecessors, Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang stepped down under the special background of domestic political and international drastic changes. It is because of the failure to handle these relationships well.
The Communist Party of China is an elite political party that combines the Leninist spirit of struggle and the profound Chinese political and cultural traditions. Although its operating mechanism does not seem to be as lively as the Western election mechanism, its competition is not weaker than electoral politics at all. It is more fierce and cruel than electoral political competition, and it requires more leadership, skill and strategy.
In China, this is called political wisdom.
Jiang Zemin is obviously a person with extraordinary political wisdom, otherwise we might not have the opportunity to commemorate him like this today.
Many people write commemorative articles about political figures, always starting from how they performed extraordinary, reviewing their lives with large paragraphs of text, analyzing and summarizing their political achievements in detail, especially the biographies of political figures of the Communist Party of China, as if only in this way can they be highlighted I am afraid that the description of how they seized and consolidated power will damage their political image, including the official obituary after Jiang Zemin's death.
But in fact, any political figure, whether ancient or contemporary, Chinese or foreign, great or insignificant, how to grasp and consolidate power is the first step in starting their political life, and they must Pass the first exam.
Jiang Zemin was clearly the top student in this exam.
CCP leaders and aircraft carriers.
(Xinhua/VCG)
After passing the exam, Jiang Zemin did a lot of great things. In the obituary issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on November 30, he used seven paragraphs and 2,784 words to review and summarize.
Including how he dealt with the "June 4th" Tiananmen political turmoil after he took office in 1989. The great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics has opened up a new situation in my country's reform, opening up and socialist modernization drive."
In the thirteen years from the Fourth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to the Sixteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, "Seize the opportunity, deepen reform, expand opening up, promote development, and maintain stability, and established the reform goals and basic framework of the socialist market economic system. Established the basic economic system in which public ownership is the mainstay in the primary stage of socialism and multiple forms of ownership develop together, and the distribution system in which distribution according to work is the mainstay and multiple distribution methods coexist, formulated and implemented a series of principles, policies and major strategies to promote reform, development and stability , determined to promote economic system reform, political system reform, cultural system reform and other aspects of reform, create a new situation of comprehensive reform and opening up, implement the basic strategy of ruling the country according to law, adhere to the policy of "peaceful reunification, one country, two systems", and realize the smooth return of Hong Kong and Macao, Adhere to the independent foreign policy of peace, open up a new situation in diplomatic work, promote the new great project of party building, promote the construction of socialist material civilization, political civilization, and spiritual civilization to achieve new progress that attracts worldwide attention, and successfully push socialism with Chinese characteristics to the second stage Eleventh century."
In October 1992, Deng Xiaoping (right) shook hands with Jiang Zemin after the closing ceremony of the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
(AFP)
Including the military, he "has a profound insight into and grasped the major changes in the domestic and foreign situations and the development trend of the world's new military transformation, and put forward a series of new conclusions and new measures for strengthening national defense and military modernization, enriching and developing Mao Zedong's military thought and Deng Xiaoping's thought on army building in the new era established Jiang Zemin's thought on national defense and army building, leading the modernization of national defense and the army to make great achievements."
At the level of ideological line and ideology, he "focused on the theme of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, and put forward a series of new ideas, new viewpoints, and new conclusions in various aspects such as reform, development, stability, internal affairs, foreign affairs, national defense, party governance, country governance, and military affairs. He made outstanding contributions to the development of the party's basic theory, basic line, basic program, and basic experience. In particular, he concentrated the wisdom of the whole party and created the important thought of "Three Represents", realizing another step in the party's guiding ideology that keeps pace with the times. progress, embodies the great political courage and theoretical courage of a true Marxist." and so on.
Jiang Zemin's 95th birthday.
(Weibo @Dadisi Media)
On April 23, 2009, Jiang Zemin made a brief evaluation of his work after he became the leader of the China United Engineering Company he used to work in Hangzhou as follows.
He said: "When I came to Beijing, I have worked for more than ten years and nothing else. There are about three things. One is to establish a socialist market economy. The second is to include Deng Xiaoping Theory in the party constitution. The third is the "three If there is one achievement, it is that the army is not allowed to do business. This has a lot to do with the fate of the army, because I worked for another year and eight months, which means that I have worked in the army for 15 years. Chairman, the flood fighting in 1998 is also very important, but these are secondary, I mainly focus on three things, I feel ashamed, I just did a little work, thank you all.”
Humility, with a little bit of pride, self-confidence that cannot be concealed, seems to have a little expectation of being affirmed by others, not "stereotyped" at all, and there is no such words as "weiguangzheng" - almost every family Parents who have outstanding students have experienced this mentality from their children, especially when they get a good test result or win a certain award.
Jiang Zemin, who is over 80 years old, still cannot escape this temper. He is such a leader with rich emotions, emotions, and flesh and blood, a very different leader of the CCP.
He always showed his trademark unscrupulous smile.
He sang for the guests in public, conducted the band for the American guests, played several musical instruments, went swimming in the sea after changing into a swimsuit in Hawaii, recited Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in English in public, and reprimanded the reporter after being annoyed by reporters’ questions. young too simple".
He once studied in the Soviet Union and mastered the Russian language proficiently, and he could recite famous Chinese classical sentences casually, which can be said to be exportable. Almost all major cities in China have left his own calligraphy inscriptions.
He's also a real expert in technology, a pretty good engineer.
On October 25, 2002, US President Bush met with Chinese President Jiang Zemin at his private ranch.
Bush and his wife Laura Bush welcomed Jiang Zemin and his wife Wang Yeping at the gate.
(Xinhua News Agency)
However, if this is all there is to it, then it is impossible for Jiang Zemin to gain a firm foothold in the political arena of the CCP where there are so many heroes, and it is even more impossible for Jiang Zemin to control that turbulent and changing era and become the core of leadership of that generation.
In the special period after the "June Fourth Movement" when it was urgent to open up the international situation, and in the period of strategic opportunities from the 1990s to the first few years of this century, he was probably the only one who had such an open mind, dared to deal with the world, and was good at Only leaders who deal with the world can unite and lead the CCP to complete the historical tasks of that era.
If Deng Xiaoping started China's modernization, then Jiang Zemin is the true leader of China's modernization.
He did not fail that era, nor did he fail his Bole Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun and others.
There seems to be nothing to hide about the relatively serious corruption problems in Chinese society during his tenure and later, and the lack of care for the people at the bottom in the process of national governance and development. With his tolerance, he should not be offended by mentioning these things in an article commemorating him.
Modern China is no longer a feudal society. The Revolution of 1911 overthrew the monarchy and established a republic more than a hundred years ago.
However, if—let’s just say that if, if this is ancient China, according to the posthumous protocol for emperors after their death, there would probably not be any controversy about using the word “wen” to give Jiang Zemin his posthumous title.
In the 101-year history of the Communist Party of China, and in the 73 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, apart from Mao Zedong, the founder of the country, who is more literary and talented than Jiang Zemin?
It wasn't there before, and it's probably going to be hard to have it in the future.
Jiang Zemin was born in Yangzhou and lived in Shanghai in his later years. He seems to love Shanghai, the earliest, most modern, most open international city in modern China, and also the most pyrotechnic and Shanghai-style international city.
He studied and worked in this city, set out from this city to ascend to the highest leadership position in China, and finally died in this city, forming a deep bond with this city.
Another thing is that in 2011, the Hong Kong media misreported the death of Jiang Zemin, and we were the first to refute the rumors.
It's a pity that he didn't give us another chance to refute the rumors this time.
I would like to use this article to commemorate Jiang Zemin, the different general secretary of the Communist Party of China and the former supreme leader of China.
His life is wonderful, and he is worthy of these 96 years.
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