China elder Jiang Zemin moves down pecking order

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 The influential Chinese ex-President Jiang Zemin has been moved down the top leadership's pecking order - at least in public - as the ruling Communist Party prepares for the final stages of a generational handover in power.

Jiang Zemin

Jiang Zemin, born 17 August 1926 in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China, is a Chinese Communist politician. He was mayor of Shanghai 1984-1987, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and member of the Politburo Standing Committee 1989-2002, China's president 1993-2003, chairman of the party's Central Military Commission 1989-2004, and in China's Central Military Commission from 1990 to 2005.

Considered by many as one part neo-conservative politicians. The Chinese state during Jiang's leadership came to pursue a policy that brought the country further away from the ideological and practical legacy of Mao Zedong.