Government of the People'S Republic of China

6 Aug 2012

Billed as one of the world's most watched programmes, CCTV's daily prime-time news at 7pm, known as Xinwen Lianbo, easily draws as many as 100 million viewers daily, mainly because it is required...

TV controls likely to be turn-off

4 Aug 2012

Mainland television viewers will be relying more on the internet for their programmes after the top broadcast regulator ordered a series of new content rules, including a ban on remakes of foreign...

Xi criticises cadres for personal excess

2 Aug 2012

Vice-President Xi Jinping has criticised cadres for putting the pursuit of personal power and individual gain ahead of their duties and warned that such extravagances could weaken the Communist...

Talks plot path for next decade

25 Jul 2012

Incumbent and retired party chiefs are meeting to finalise decisions on the new leadership line-up ahead of the 18th party congress.

Pep talk fails to reassure investors

24 Jul 2012

Mainland investors rejected a pep talk last week from the chief securities regulator, sending the benchmark to a three-year low yesterday as concerns about the country's economy mounted.

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Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

Big losses for more than a third of mainland investors, poll finds

More than one-third of mainland investors say they have lost at least 30 per cent of their equity investments in the first half of this year, an embarrassment for chief securities regulator Guo...

Nine 'right number for top leadership'

A prominent economist has published an article in the party's mouthpiece that appears to defend keeping the number of members in China's top decision-making body at nine.

Mayor elected Beijing party secretary

Beijing mayor Guo Jinlong was promoted to party secretary of the capital yesterday at the close of the municipal Communist Party congress, paving the way for him to become a Politburo member at...

How Xi Jinping can prove China is not a kleptocracy

Last Friday the Bloomberg news agency published a 4,000-word investigation into the family business interests of Xi Jinping, heir apparent to China's presidency.

Clues to official plight of Bo, Wang

The top legislative body in Chongqing has likely approved the resignation of disgraced former municipal party secretary Bo Xilai and his right-hand man Wang Lijun as delegates to the National...

Book reveals security move after June 4 crackdown

The Communist Party leadership decided to strengthen its security apparatus shortly after the June 4 military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in 1989, according to a new book by a former...