A former soap factory manager, Jiang was about to retire when he got top job in aftermath of brutal crackdown on 1989 Tiananmen protests, and was president from 1993 to 2003
Activists call for political freedoms, claim strict virus lockdowns had hampered response to deadly blaze in Urumqi; protests not seen since 1989 pro-democracy movement
Police boost presence, check IDs in Beijing while authorities close off Hong Kong park where annual vigil held for pro-democracy protestors killed in 1989 crackdown
Zhang Zhan has been detained since May, and lawyer says her health is declining; prosecutors demand 5-year sentence for 'picking quarrels and provoking trouble'
Beijing's plan to let mainland authorities operate openly in region, bypassing Hong Kong's government, is overwhelmingly adopted in major anti-freedom step
30 years later, a look at a report from the field during the bloody crackdown in China on pro-democracy protesters, with the death toll unknown to this day
With figures disputed, tens or hundreds of thousands attend commemoration events for hundreds of victims in 1989 Chinese crackdown on Beijing protesters
Beijing imposes information lockdown on anniversary, continuing political repression to erase mass killings from public memory; some activists unreachable by phone or text
A trade war with the US and a host of other worries are not stopping some 100 companies from heading east, where they will be welcomed by a massive market hungry for innovation
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