Zhou Qiang

China's top judge Zhou Qiang urges increased role for defence lawyers

29 Apr 2013

China’s top judge Zhou Qiang’s called for lawyers and scholars to work together to reform the legal system, bringing new hope for an end to confrontations between judges and defence lawyers, and...

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Pedigree of top judge Zhou Qiang offers hope for legal reform

4 Apr 2013

Unlike his predecessor Wang Shengjun, a party official with a police background who never studied law, Zhou Qiang, 53, was one of the country's first law students after the Cultural Revolution. He...

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Zhou Qiang's new role as the top judge is largely symbolic

16 Mar 2013

Hu Chunhua and Sun Zhengcai, both three years younger than the 52-year-old Zhou, have now eclipsed him on the political stage after joining the 25-member Politburo, and are in pole position to...

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Hunan party chief Zhou Qiang named as mainland's top judge

16 Mar 2013

Zhou Qiang, 52, won 2,908 votes of the 2,957 effective ballots cast by National People's Congress deputies to become president of the Supreme People's Court, succeeding unpopular 66-year-old Wang...

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Who said it?

16 Mar 2013

The government will have a poverty line. Is the government also going to make a middle-class line?

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Hu Jintao protégé Zhou Qiang tipped as the mainland's top prosecutor

10 Mar 2013

Rumours have circulated over the past few days over Zhou Qiang's career path, suggesting he would be appointed either the president of the Supreme People's Procuratorate or president of the...

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