Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi presented Japan's proposals to assist China with the railway project to Chinese President
Jiang Zemin last November when he visited Japan.
The project was discussed in June 1998 by President Nazarbayev and his Chinese counter-part
Jiang Zemin. Under the $9.5 bn deal, signed by a Chinese delegation headed by then PM Li Peng, CNPC got 60% of AktyubinskMunaiGaz and control over the Uzen field, from which China is to build a 250 km pipeline to Iran via Turkmenistan (see Gas Market Trends).
"Both China and the United States hastily retreated, with Clinton and President
Jiang Zemin agreeing to exchange state visits by 1998.
Within weeks of my arrival at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow in September 1997, the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research announced that China's President,
Jiang Zemin, was coming to speak at Memorial Hall.
Qiao Shi was
Jiang Zemin's paramount rival and Li's replacement of him upon Qiao's retirement was seen as a final blow to one of Jiang's former adversaries.
This year's meeting was the first post-Deng Congress, and was expected to show how
Jiang Zemin intended to shape policy and the extent to which he dominated the army and the party.
Guo has named current Vice President Wang Qishan , former party chairman
Jiang Zemin , and former Premier Zhu Rongji as individuals likely to have assets seized by the U.S.
Summary: But retiring President
Jiang Zemin kept a grip on power as up to seven associates were named in the nine-man Politburo Standing Committee
16 ( ANI ): Shadow of
Jiang Zemin looms over new politicians elected in the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) with most them having ties with the formal Chinese leader, an expert has said.
China's official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday that reports of former Chinese President
Jiang Zemin's death were ''pure rumor,'' while a Hong Kong television station that earlier sent such a report has since retracted the story and apologized.
After days of speculation about the death of China's ex-leader
Jiang Zemin, the country's state media on Thursday denied Jiang's death saying the death reports are "pure rumor".