Politics
Wall Street Journal
President Xi Jinping weakens Premier Li Keqiang's role.
Global Times
Editorial on Mao Zedong's legacy: "It is difficult to evaluate China's historical revolution from a humanitarian perspective."
Bejing Business Today*
Topics at the Central Rural Work Conference held this week in Beijing: food security, land reform.
Supreme People's Court Monitor
The court misses an opportunity to consult the public.

Society
ChinaChange
Translation: Indictment of Xu Zhiyong by the Beijing Municipal People’s Procuratorate.
China File
New indications that community corrections will play a role in the elimination of laojiao could point to a promising direction for reform of China’s system of administrative detention.
Businessweek
Survey: Three out of four restaurants queried said shark fin soup remains available.
Radio Free Asia
Jiangsu to evict ten villages polluted by steel plant.

Economy
Financial Times
Chinese propaganda officials have ordered financial journalists and some media outlets to tone down their coverage of a liquidity crunch in the interbank market.
Bloomberg
Apple struck a deal to sell the iPhone through China Mobile, giving both companies a means to fight declining share in the world’s largest wireless market.
McKinsey Insights
"US investors are still forced to take on faith the content of audit reports, and neither they nor regulators have timely mechanisms to take action against frauds."
Dahe Daily*
Zhengzhou Coal Industry Group chairman Meng Zhongze is being investigated on graft charges.

Foreign affairs
China Economic Watch
The US wants China to specify exactly which industries are closed to foreign investment before signing a Bilateral Investment Treaty.
Quartz
China overtook the United Kingdom last year as the country that received the most scrutiny of its US investments.
Chosun Ilbo
Qiu Guohong, a diplomat with a mixed track record, is set to be appointed the new Chinese ambassador to South Korea.
Xinhua
Foreign Minister Wang Yi continues his tour of the Middle East in Algeria.