Jianghua, whose original name and former name respectively are Yu Shangcong and Huang Chunpu was a native of Jianghua, Hunan from the Yao ethic minority. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1926. During the period of the second Chinese Revolutionary Civil War, he held the post as the secretary of the Party committee of district and prefectural levels in Hengyang. And since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Jiang has assumed offices of mayor of Hangzhou city, secretary of the Hangzhou municipal Party committee and general secretary of Zhejiang provincial Party committee later. He has also served as member of secretarial of East China Bureau of central Party committee and the political commissar of Nanjing military region, and then the president of the SPC (supreme people's court). In 1980, he took the post as the chief judge of the special tribunal of SPC. He was the alternate member for the 8th and 10th term of the central committee, and the member of the 11th central committee and the standing committee of the advisory commission of the central Party committee.