Zhang Wenkang | |||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 張文康 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 张文康 | ||||||
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Zhang Wenkang (born 1940 in Nanhui,Shanghai) was the health minister of China [1] during the SARS outbreak [2] who was sacked for mishandling the matter. [3]
Zhang was a supporter of Jiang Zemin,former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Zhang was Jiang's personal physician. [3] After he was fired,he was placed in various ceremonial positions.
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The People's Republic of China (PRC) became more influential economically in the 1990s and 2000s and was beginning to be widely recognized as an emerging superpower. In 2010,China became the world's second largest economy by nominal GDP and became the largest economy since 2014 measured by GDP PPP surpassing the United States which previously held that position. At the same time,numerous social problems emerged and intensified. As CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin,Congress Chairman Li Peng and Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji,gradually retired from their position of power,"fourth-generation" leaders,led by CCP General Secretary Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao,faced with increasing social unrest,attempted to steer the country towards a new direction. From the path of focusing solely on economic development,Hu and Wen placed focus on creating an overall balance under the idea of the Scientific Outlook on Development to create a socialist harmonious society.
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Jiang Wen is a Chinese actor,screenwriter,and director. As a director,he is sometimes grouped with the "Sixth Generation" that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor,having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum (1986),and more recently as Baze Malbus in the Star Wars film Rogue One (2016). He is the older brother of fellow actor Jiang Wu.
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They Kiss Again is a 2007 Taiwanese television series starring Joe Cheng,Ariel Lin,Jiro Wang and Danson Tang. It is the sequel to It Started with a Kiss which is based on the Japanese manga series Itazura na Kiss written by Kaoru Tada. It was produced by Comic International Productions and directed by Chu Yu-ning. It started filming 26 March 2007 and wrapped 19 January 2008.
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