Editing Jiang Zemin (section)

== Early life ==
Jiang Zemin was born in the city of Yangzhou, Jiangsu, on 17 August 1926.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BRl1sWYShpcC&pg=RA4-PA339|title=Events That Formed the Modern World|first1=Frank W.|last1=Thackeray|first2=John E.|last2=Findling|date=31 May 2012|publisher=ABC-CLIO|via=Google Books|isbn=978-1-59884-901-1|access-date=1 June 2017|archive-date=18 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018190103/https://books.google.com/books?id=BRl1sWYShpcC&pg=RA4-PA339|url-status=live}}</ref> His ancestral home was the Jiangcun Village ({{zh|labels=no|江村}}) in [[Jingde County]], Anhui. This was also the hometown of a number of prominent figures in Chinese academic and intellectual establishments.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Li |first1=Yiping |last2=Lai |first2=Kun |last3=Feng |first3=Xuegang |title=The Problem of ' Guanxi ' for Actualizing Community Tourism: A Case Study of Relationship Networking in China |journal=Tourism Geographies |date=May 2007 |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=117–119 |doi=10.1080/14616680701278489|s2cid=153691620 }}</ref> Jiang grew up during the years of [[Second Sino-Japanese War|Japanese occupation]]. His uncle and foster father, [[Jiang Shangqing]], died fighting the Japanese and was considered in Jiang Zemin's time to be a national hero.<ref name=":322">{{Cite book |last=Hammond |first=Ken |title=China's Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future |publisher=1804 Books |year=2023 |isbn=9781736850084 |location=New York, NY |pages=}}</ref>{{Rp|page=40}} After Shangqing's death, Zemin became his male heir.<ref>{{cite news |title=The New Emperor |url=http://edition.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/95/1229/feat4.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130112628/http://edition.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/95/1229/feat4.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 November 2022 |access-date=30 November 2022 |work=Asia NOW |date=29 December 1995}}</ref>

Jiang attended the Department of Electrical Engineering at the [[National Central University]] in Japanese-occupied [[Nanjing]] before transferring to National Chiao Tung University (now [[Shanghai Jiao Tong University]]). He graduated there in 1947 with a bachelor's degree in [[electrical engineering]].<ref name="time_obituary">{{cite magazine |last1=McDonald |first1=Joe |title=Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin Has Reportedly Died |url=https://time.com/6237657/jiang-zemin-dies/ |magazine=Time |access-date=30 November 2022 |language=en |archive-date=30 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130090507/https://time.com/6237657/jiang-zemin-dies/ |url-status=dead|date=2022-11-30}}</ref> Jiang joined the Chinese Communist Party when he was in college.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.cengage.com/|title=Cengage Learning |access-date=6 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212194545/https://www.cengage.com/|archive-date=12 February 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Jiang received his training at the [[Zavod Imeni Likhacheva|Stalin Automobile Works]] in Moscow in the 1950s.{{Sfn|Kuhn|2004|p=66}} He also worked for Changchun's [[FAW Group|First Automobile Works]].{{Sfn|Kuhn|2004|p=609}} As Jiang became increasingly involved in the Communist Party, his main work shifted from the technical side of engineering to administrative and political tasks.<ref name=":322" />{{Rp|page=140}}