Chen Liangyu

26 Jul 2012

Beijing's mayor and a deputy mayor resigned yesterday in what is likely a routine reshuffle after the municipal party congress.

But the change in leadership comes amid a public...

10:18PM

Chen and Yao's plan to 'set the record straight'

30 May 2012

Disgraced Politburo member Chen Xitong was reluctant to talk about the past for fear of political repercussions until scholar Yao Jianfu mentioned a conversation he had with purged leader Zhao...

4:10PM

June 4 'could have been avoided'

29 May 2012

Former Beijing mayor Chen Xitong - one of the leaders blamed for the military crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square - now calls it 'a regrettable tragedy that could have...

4:03PM

Yu returned as Shanghai party chief

23 May 2012

Yu Zhengsheng was re-elected Shanghai party boss yesterday - a move that reaffirms his potential to join the country's highest ruling body - as he highlighted the city's role in national reforms...

3:36PM

Mayor says he defied Bo on axing

22 May 2012

Chongqing mayor Huang Qifan openly challenged disgraced party chief Bo Xilai at a high-level meeting early this year when Bo announced his decision to sack the municipality's police chief, Wang...

3:29PM

Hint at death penalty for Bo

18 Apr 2012

There is speculation that ousted Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai might face the death penalty, after a People's Daily commentary mentioned the famous executions of two corrupt officials in 1952....

12:52PM

Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

Updated 4:03AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

Updated 4:03AM

P.L.A. is target of Bo media blitz

The unusually strong state media blitz targeting disgraced former Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai is a bid to warn his army supporters to adhere to the party line and to limit the scandal's...

12:47PM

Wen's anti-graft article could point to Bo's fate

Premier Wen Jiabao is vowing more resolute anti-graft measures during his last year in office, according to an article to appear today in the party's mouthpiece magazine, Seeking Truth.

12:43PM

Power struggle set to intensify

The downfall of the former right-hand man of the maverick Chongqing Communist Party boss Bo Xilai looks likely to deal a heavy blow to Bo's hopes in the top-level reshuffle this autumn and has...

7:03AM

Leaked us cable sheds light on Hu faction

After the downfall of Chen Liangyu in 2006, President Hu Jintao offered the key job of Shanghai party boss to several of his close allies, but most were reluctant to take the hot seat, a leaked US...

7:08PM

Lai See

A case of handbags at dawn for bosses at Milan Station

10:30AM

Wider reforms needed to tackle corruption

There is nothing more embarrassing for China's leaders than corruption in high places, but the prospect of it at the top of the powerful Railways Ministry is especially troubling.

8:59PM