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Jiang Jianqing

President and Chairman, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

In a defining moment, the Communist Party of China (CPC) began in 2002 to admit entrepreneurs – unabashed capitalists – to its ranks. Jiang Jianqing, Governor of ICBC, the world’s largest bank by market value and architect of plans to buy a 20% stake in Africa’s largest bank, Standard Bank, is not one of them. He is very much a cadre....

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