Wang Yeping (, born 12 February 1928) is a Chinese

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who is the widow of

Jiang Zemin Jiang Zemin (17 August 1926 – 30 November 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as pres ...

, former

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(''de facto''

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) and

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(''de jure''

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), and is a native of

Yangzhou Yangzhou, postal romanization Yangchow, is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province (Suzhong), East China. Sitting on the north bank of the Yangtze, it borders the provincial capital Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, Yan ...

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Biography (1928-present)

Wang Yeping was born February 12, 1928 in Yangzhou and grew up in

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in the

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. Wang Yeping graduated from Shanghai Foreign Language Institute and majored in foreign languages. She has two sons,

Jiang Mianheng Jiang Mianheng (; born 1 April 1951) is a Chinese physicist and business executive. He has served as Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the first President of ShanghaiTech University. His father was Jiang Zemin, General Secr ...

born in 1951 and Jiang Miankang born in 1956.

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