Issue 368
Our beloved Comrade Jiang Zemin suffered from leukemia combined with multiple organ failure, and the rescue was ineffective. He died in Shanghai at 12:13 on November 30, 2022 at the age of 96.
Today, we selected several stories about Comrade Jiang Zemin published in "Newspaper Digest" to deeply commemorate Comrade Jiang Zemin.
Jiang Zemin and his wife Wang Yeping took a photo in Yuquan Mountain, Beijing in 1992
Jiang Zemin's university years
1943, Jiang Zemin became one of the eight students admitted to the Department of Mechanical and Electronics of Nanjing Central University that year. (Editor's note: Later, the Central University during the fall of Nanjing was broken up, and Jiang Zemin entered the Department of Electrical Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University to study.)
Although he shouldered the responsibility of many off-campus activities, Jiang Zemin, who majored in power generation and transportation, still maintained excellent academic performance. However, Jiang Zemin never boasted about his learning skills. "Our department director likes to ask Wang Huijiong if he has questions," Jiang Zemin said to his friends very bluntly decades later, "He can always answer and answer very well. He likes to study and is very diligent. He is our class monitor."
In college, Jiang Zemin did not give up his love for music and literature. Even after he was engaged in revolutionary activities, he tried to find opportunities to practice his skills. When students perform sketches that promote communist thought, he often plays erhu accompaniment for them, and no matter when the class meeting is held, he will direct everyone to sing, and his classmates call him "conductor".
When Jiang Zemin is in a low mood, he will not talk to his roommate. Usually, he would sit cross-legged on his bed and read some sad poems from the Tang and Song dynasties. When he read aloud, he would sigh from time to time.
"No matter how much you worry," Tong Zonghai recalled, "Jiang Zemin would not vent or get angry. When Jiang Zemin recited ancient poems, he would usually find a poem that particularly reflects his mood. When he was happy, he would choose some cheerful poems. In general, he was an optimist."
In the summer of 1947, Jiang Zemin graduated. Although he was only 21 years old, his knowledge was so extensive that his classmates called him "Dr. Jiang". In his graduation memorial book, his friends wrote inscriptions: "Brother Jiang Zemin is a famous 'doctoral' in the class."
"His grades are often among the best, especially in mathematics; he likes to debate and often win - in view of this, we awarded him the title of 'doctoral'."
"He loves sports, especially horizontal bar and sprinting."
"Recently, he particularly likes writing poetry and playing the piano, which is quite like his ancestor 'Jiang Gong'."
Jiang Zemin received two very different but equally important education for him. One is education in Western science and engineering; the other is education in Marxism and revolutionary theory.
("Newspaper Digest" published on February 14, 2005)
is proficient in playing and singing, and masters at least 8 foreign languages
3 In 2016, Higher Education Press published the tool book "45 World Famous Songs". It is reported that the tracks included in this book were organized and selected by Li Lanqing, former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and former Vice Premier of the State Council, and Jiang Zemin was assigned to Li Lanqing this "task". Jiang Zemin wrote a preface for this book.
In fact, music is just one of Jiang Zemin's hobbies. Jiang Zemin has a deep attainment in calligraphy, is also good at writing poetry and lyrics, and is proficient in many foreign languages.
According to the "Biography of Jiang Zemin", Jiang Zemin had already received Chinese traditional culture enlightenment education in his childhood. Since he learned to read, his father asked him to recite a Chinese classical literature article every day and practice calligraphy. At the age of 7, Jiang Zemin entered the famous Qionghuaguan Primary School in Yangzhou. The traditional courses of the school revolve around the literature, music, calligraphy and Chinese chess, which have become Jiang Zemin's hobbies for his whole life. Here, Jiang Zemin also received a lot of calligraphy training.
Jiang Zemin also likes to write poems and lyrics.On April 13, 2001, when he was on a state visit to Cuba, the Chairman of the State Council of Cuba, Castro, Jiang Zemin presented him with a seven-character poem written by himself: Saying to China among the colorful clouds, and returning thousands of miles to the south of the United States on ten days. The wind and rain are heard across the river, and the green pine bones are as proud as a mountain.
It is reported that Jiang Zemin mastered at least seven instruments: erhu, flute , guitar, piano, violin , organ , xylophone , etc.
According to "Civil Leader": One day in the winter of 1989, in Zhongnanhai , Jiang Zemin was about to take a break from his busy schedule and play an impromptu song. He has a vertical Nie Er piano. "When talking about this piano, there is another story. When he was working in Shanghai, he liked music very much and could play a good piano. He had always wanted to buy a piano for many years, but because his family had a large population, a large living expenses, and a small savings, he had never bought it. In order to satisfy her husband's dream for many years, Wang Yeping gritted his teeth and made up his mind to take out all the due passbooks, and borrowed some from his relatives in Shanghai, and raised up 2,000 yuan. Then he bought a Nie Er vertical piano, which made her husband's wish for many years come true."
Jiang Zemin not only masters many instruments, but also loves opera and sing. "Biography of Jiang Zemin" records that after the student days, Jiang Zemin has always loved traditional arts such as Peking Opera, Yue Opera, Kunqu Opera, Kunqu Opera, , and often sang "Catching Cao" and " Silang Talking Mother HTML "; he also likes famous lyric songs from all over the world. Whether it is "Dove" in Spanish or "My Sun" in Italian , Jiang Zemin sang in the original language.
public information shows that Jiang Zemin is proficient in English and Russian, can directly talk to foreign guests in fluent and skillful English, and can write in English and Russian.
When visiting the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1998, Jiang Zemin gave a speech in Russian. It is worth mentioning that this speech is all about scientific and technological topics, including professional terms such as " DNA double helix structure".
According to the book "Civil Leader", once Jiang Zemin had a conversation with college students in Shanghai. A student talked about the United States' " Declaration of Independence ". Jiang Zemin said: "Do you understand the Declaration of Independence carefully? I can recite the Declaration of Independence in English." One year, the staff subscribed several English newspapers such as the Washington Post for him. He also wanted to read a Russian newspaper, and the staff also subscribed to " Pravda ".
In addition, Jiang Zemin is also proficient in Romanian , French, German , Japanese, and Spanish, Urdu . According to media reports, when Jiang Zemin visited Romanian , he improvised the "Why haven't you come yet?" by the famous Romanian poet Eminescu, and improvised the ancient Romanian song "Mom Returns Home Last Night" with a piano.
("Newspaper Digest" published on April 4, 2016)
Zeng Peiyan recalls working with Jiang Zemin
"Sunrise River Flowers - Young Jiang Zemin in Shanghai" was published in 2010. Zeng Peiyan, who was a technician of the rectifier room of the Shanghai Institute of Electrical Sciences, later served as a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, recalled the time he worked with Comrade Jiang Zemin.
In 1962, Comrade Jiang Zemin and I went to work at the Shanghai Institute of Electrical Appliances Science in the same year. He is the deputy director in charge of scientific research and I am a technician. He was 36 years old at that time and had already been the director of the power branch in Changchun FAW. I was twenty-three years old and just graduated from the Department of Radio Electronics of Tsinghua University.
He usually wears a pair of dark wide-brimmed glasses and is elegant and always greets everyone with a smile when he sees them. The masses are willing to approach him and discuss issues with him. At that time, politics was in charge and talked about line struggle and class struggle every day. We had a meeting in the cafeteria. When we heard the report, we were worried. But we heard his report differently. Many people went to take seats early. His report not only highlights politics, but does not make a lot of principles and empty slogans, but intersperses with specific examples from time to time, which is very lively and lively.When talking about key points, he would insert some dialects, such as Sichuan dialect, which was quite similar. He often spoke a few sentences in English, and sometimes quoted Tang poetry and Song lyrics. He read them when he was a child, so he could just do it and boost everyone's spirit. The comrades feel very friendly and not so boring. When he came back from abroad, in addition to introducing the inspection content, he also told everyone about some foreign experiences and social situations. It is very rare for us to hear this information. In that era when extreme left-wing thought was prevalent and closed and rigid, he was active in his thoughts and treated the masses honestly, which brought a new trend to the institute.
In the past four years, he did a lot of influential and meaningful things in the industry in the institute, and carried out his work to focus on comprehensiveness and highlight key points. One of the things that impressed me most was the formulation of small and medium-sized motor standards. It’s hard to know if it’s not done by myself. Later, I also did standardization work, and it was not easy to unify the standards of all manufacturers. At that time, Shanghai Institute of Electrical Technology was the central unit of unified industry standards in the country. Comrade Jiang Zemin organized experts from relevant factories in the industry to carry out work together, and finally formed a series of unified standards recognized by all parties, passed the departmental approval, and applied it to actual production, which ultimately played an important role in promoting the development of my country's motor industry.
1963, due to product needs, the first machine department asked us to make a high-frequency pulse thyristor. But there was already news at that time that the rectifier laboratory where I worked might have to be moved to Xi'an. The research tasks in the department have been issued, and whether to do it or not or how to do it is a very difficult question. If it is done, it is necessary to renovate the equipment and factory buildings, but if it really needs to be relocated, it will cause great waste. Just when everyone was undecided, Comrade Jiang Zemin made a decision and sent a group of newly graduated college students to go out to "borrow chickens and lay eggs" and borrow ready-made technical equipment from the Nanjing Fourth Machinery Factory to conduct trial production of thyristor pipes. In less than a year, with the assistance of the factory, we tried to produce three samples. The following year, the rectifier research room was moved to Xi'an. The institute did not spend a penny on the national equipment factory renovation and successfully completed the tasks assigned by the department.
Comrade Jiang Zemin was born in a motor field and had a strong curiosity about new things. When encountering problems, he always had to break the casserole and ask the questions to the end, and was very good at hitting the point. The comrades in the institute all have a feeling of the same feeling. They must be fully prepared to report their work to him. Even so, some of them are still speechless and unable to come to Taiwan when they are asked.
At that time, there was a "news" in the institute, which was that Comrade Jiang Zemin spoke up for justice and insisted on paying a technician who was the so-called "white specialty model". That year, the national first-level salary was adjusted. This technician had an excellent career, but his family background was not very good, and he was more persistent in his own opinion at work. The room he was in regarded him as a "white specialty" and decided not to pay a salary. With Comrade Jiang Zemin's persistence and care, it was finally resolved and the salary was added.
In 1966, Comrade Jiang Zemin was transferred to Wuhan Thermal Engineering Institute as the director, and I moved to Xi'an with the entire room of the rectifier room. After that, because of two activities, I had the opportunity to work close together with Comrade Jiang Zemin. At that time, Comrade Jiang Zemin was already the chief director of the research institute under the jurisdiction, and I was just a team leader of the rectifier room of the Xi'an factory. We stayed in the collective dormitory together, squeezed the bus, lined up to buy food in the cafeteria, and rushed to the boiler room to turn on the water. Even if we drafted documents and wrote summary reports, we always shared some of them with everyone. We are all away from home for a long time on business trips, but he often cares about others and asks about the specific difficulties. When you are with Comrade Jiang Zemin, you can't tell that he is a leading cadre and has no airs at all. You can always make people feel the warmth of a comrade and brotherly. Another thing that left a deep impression on me was that during the Cultural Revolution, Comrade Jiang Zemin was also affected. His director "standed aside", but he didn't seem to care and was calm.
Comrade Jiang Zemin is very nostalgic. Later, he was in a high position and still respects the teachers who taught him and the leaders who taught him, and misses the comrades who worked together. After leaving the Shanghai Institute of Electrical and Electrical Sciences, Comrade Jiang Zemin was still concerned about the development of the institute. He often spoke on the phone with his old colleagues, met in person whenever he had the opportunity, or invited him to visit his home.Later, we also worked together in the Electronics Department. We learned that Comrade Jiang Zemin has always kept in touch with the old comrades of the Electronics Department and the Ministry of Machinery Department. We often listen to them reflect social conditions and public opinion. If we encounter difficulties in life, we should take care of them as much as possible.
("Newspaper Digest" published on April 30, 2010)
"Selected Literature of Jiang Zemin" wonderful remarks
Talking about "talking about politics"
As a leading cadre, especially a senior cadre, you should have basic knowledge of both natural science and social sciences. If you don’t read some history, don’t understand Chinese history and foreign history, don’t know the connection between history and reality, don’t master the successes and failures, experiences and lessons in Chinese and foreign history, how to govern society and the country? How to deal with international affairs? How to talk about politics? It’s difficult to talk about your politics and it’s difficult to explain well.
A piece of material reflects that a place in Wolong District, Nanyang City, Henan Province built a "Clean Official Temple" to bring together officials from the feudal era with statues of Comrades Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi and nine old coaches. Some of our leaders wrote inscriptions, and people from the Taiwan authorities wrote inscriptions. ...Although this incident happened in one place, it reflects a common problem at present, that is, do not consider politics, and do not distinguish between right and wrong...
Don't think that Western countries do not talk about politics, they are very political. Their governments, political parties, propaganda tools, schools, churches, etc., are instilling their values in people all day long.
talks about "anti-smuggling"
Some comrades advised me to take care of big things now, just don't care about small things, and be more detached. I hope so too. Such a big country, 1.2 billion people, have a heavy responsibility on their shoulders! Some things seem very specific, but they involve the overall situation and must be solved. This is how anti-smuggling is, and the basic living expenses of laid-off workers in state-owned enterprises are also like this. It seems very specific and scattered, as if it is a small matter, but in general, it is a major event that concerns the overall stability and development of the country. We must be grasped...
Today, I had no smile on my face, a little worried, a little anxious, and a little excited when I spoke. Some words are also said sharply and may be vibrating. I have thought that vibration is beneficial, which can alert and cheer up some comrades, which will help everyone work together to solve the difficulties and problems in progress and continue to develop a good situation.
Talk about "Xiaoping's Southern Tour"
Comrade Xiaoping put forward many very important ideas in his later years, especially his Southern Talk in 1992, which clarified some very important issues that plagued people's thoughts at that time and created good conditions for our generation. There were many things that Comrade Xiaoping didn't say at that time, and it was difficult for us to say.
In 1989, when I first came to work in the central government, Comrade Xiaoping saw me and I told him that the Party and the people put me in this position. I will devote myself to my whole life and death until I die. I will definitely do my best to "if I benefit the country from life and death, I will not avoid it because of misfortune and good fortune." I never forgot this. My current responsibility, or my historical responsibility, is to take the lead in emancipating the mind and be brave in theoretical exploration and innovation.
("Newspaper Digest" published on October 13, 2006)
Source: Newspaper Digest
First instance: Guo Juan, Liu Niu
Second instance: Lu Ya
Third instance: Shi Shaogen
Final instance: Liu Chang
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