According to “Anything for Power: The Real Story of China's Jiang Zemin,” a 2011 book-length series published by The Epoch Times, Jiang’s wife, Wang Yeping, once practiced Falun Gong in 1994.

(STR/AFP via Getty Images) In the 1990s, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin initiated the "985 Project" and the "211 Project."

However, Jiang Zemin, the former leader of the CCP, was jealous of the popularity of Falun Gong and initiated the persecution, using the state-controlled media to smear Falun Gong. In 1999, Mr.

At the 14th Central Committee in 1993, Deng’s successor, Jiang Zemin, called for the establishment of a socialist market economy by the end of the 20th century and introduced reforms to encourage private enterprise and reform the inefficient state-owned

"Jiang Zemin is dead. The collapse of the Chinese Communist Party will come soon … We are looking forward to the day of reunion with you," read a message from a resident of Pingshan county in northern China’s Hebei Province.

It is widely believed that in China, the most corrupt family is that of the former CCP dictator, Jiang Zemin.

Falun Gong practitioners holding banners raising awareness about forced organ harvesting and bringing Jiang Zemin, the former CCP leader, to justice, in Melbourne, Australia, on July 14, 2018.

On Feb. 22, 2005, more than 10 organizations, including the Epoch Media Group, the Farewell to the CCP Alliance, and the Global Coalition to Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice, joined forces to establish the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP, a nonprofit

Former Chinese Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping (R) and his successor Jiang Zemin shake hands in October 1992.

Falun Gong is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the regime since July 1999 when then-Chinese leader Jiang Zemin initiated the persecution campaign.

The purge of Xi’s most visible opponents—such as Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, Le Keqiang, and Han Zheng—was an attempt to “kill the snake by cutting off its head.”

In 1999, then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin launched a sweeping campaign to eradicate Falun Gong, resulting in millions of practitioners being thrown in detention facilities, where they are brainwashed, tortured, or even killed for

In comparison, his predecessors Jiang Zemin promoted 79 generals and Hu Jintao promoted 45 generals.

The CCP, under then-dictator Jiang Zemin, perceived Falun Gong as a direct threat to its one-party rule, since the Party could not directly control the practice.

have been filed against Jiang Zemin, such as "Jiang Zemin Genocide Case."

The report stated it confirmed that starting from late 1999, under the order of CCP leader Jiang Zemin, the regime orchestrated a nationwide genocide of Falun Gong practitioners through forced organ harvesting, which has continued for 25 years and is

Fang was a subordinate of Guo Boxiong, who was once the regime's highest-ranked military official and known as a key member of the "Jiang faction," a political faction loyal to former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.

In 2003, Jiang Zemin and Mr. Zeng attempted to pass the controversial Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23. A massive street protest—numbering over 500,000 participants—forced the government to withdraw the bill.

In July 1999, then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin launched a brutal persecution campaign aimed at crushing the practice and its 100 million adherents within six months.

On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched its persecution campaign against Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, with then-leader Jiang Zemin arguing for the use of atheism to defeat theism.

Its enormous popularity, however, was perceived as a threat by Jiang Zemin, then the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, who had long feared the Party had lost its dominance over daily life in China.

Jiang Zemin died on Nov. 30, just prior to the current outbreak of COVID-19. Some observers see a connection between the ruthless leader and the deaths of influential CCP members who promoted his policies.

Falun Gong practitioners Zhang Huidong (L) and Yu Jing (R) hold a banner that reads "Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice," on Sept. 24, 2015.

He may be directing his actions at the Jiang Zemin faction that Xi has implied are careerists in the Party.

Fearing that its popularity would jeopardize the Chinese regime’s authoritarian rule, in July 1999, then-regime leader Jiang Zemin launched a nationwide persecution campaign.

Technically, the CFWC is not a new organization but the rebirth of the original CFWC, established in 1998 under former leader Jiang Zemin.

After the flood, Jiang inspected the Jingjiang embankment in Hubei on Aug. 13, 1998, and bragged about how powerful the People’s Liberation Army was. Notably, previous reports on the topic of the 1998 floods would praise Jiang Zemin.

Jiang Zemin, the late regime leader who initiated the campaign, certainly didn’t expect that 25 years later, “Falun Gong would have survived,” and even less so that there would be others helping—human rights lawyers, neighbors, or even local police officers—to

Originating in mainland China in 1992, the popular practice attracted between 70 million to 100 million followers, according to various estimates, before former Chinese regime leader Jiang Zemin turned the state apparatus against it in 1999.

Feeling uneasy about the steady rise in people practicing Falun Gong, the then-head of CCP, Jiang Zemin, launched a crackdown on the practice. The persecution is still ongoing. Reporting by Yawen Hung, Weiyong Zhu, and Maria Han.