1926: born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, on August 17
1946: joined the Communist Party
1947: graduated from Shanghai's Jiaotong University, majoring in electrical engineering
1955: was sent to the Soviet Union to work in Moscow's Stalin Automobile Works as a trainee for one year
1956-79: after returning, Mr Jiang served as a director of factories and research institutes in the industrial cities of Changchun, Shanghai and Wuhan. Later, he was transferred to Beijng to take charge of the Foreign Affairs Department of the First Ministry of Machinery Building under the State Council
From 1980: served successively as deputy director of the State Import and Export Administration and the State Foreign Investment Administration, vice-minister and minister of the electronics industry, mayor of Shanghai, secretary of the Communist Party's Shanghai Municipal Committee, and a member of the Communist Party Central Committee's Political Bureau