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  • Oct 3, 2013
  • Updated: 1:02am

Zhou Yongkang

Born in 1942, Zhou was secretary of the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee of the party’s Central Committee from 2007 to 2012. He spent 18 years in Liaoning province working on geophysical exploration before being promoted to mayor of Panmian city. Other positions he held include vice minister of the petroleum industry (1985-1988), minister of land and resources (1998-1999), and Sichuan party boss (1999-2002). In 2002 he became head of the Ministry of Public Security and was made a member of the Politburo’s standing committee in 2007. Zhou is an engineering graduate.

 

2 Oct 2013

Former security tsar Zhou Yongkang voiced strong support for President Xi Jinping yesterday as he re-emerged on the public stage for the first time since being investigated for corruption in...

9:45AM
1 Oct 2013

Former Communist Party senior leader Zhou Yongkang made a rare public appearance on Tuesday when he paid a visit to the China University of Petroleum on the school’s 60th anniversary.

9:50AM
21 Sep 2013

Some mainland media outlets appear to be drawing links between relatives of former public security tsar Zhou Yongkang and the subjects of corruption investigations involving his former powerbases...

5:12AM
12 Sep 2013

Two more senior executives of state-owned enterprises have been placed under Communist Party investigation as a major corruption probe widens.

10:04PM
3 Sep 2013

Sichuan Star Cable, a Leshan, Sichuan province-based supplier of the oil and gas giant China National Petroleum Corporation, has said three of its executives have disappeared as party...

4:24PM
3 Sep 2013

The corruption investigation of Jiang Jiemin, a former chairman of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), and several other senior officials at the state-owned energy firm has shed light on...

8:40AM

Jiang Jiemin, director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (Sasac) and former chairman of the country's biggest oil company, is suspected of "serious discipline...

1:03PM

The corruption probe into former public security tsar Zhou Yongkang will not lead to investigations of other top party leaders, even though it has broken a long-standing agreement protecting the...

8:01AM

For much of his career, Zhou Yongkang glided among the most influential sectors of modern China - oil, land and eventually the national police apparatus. Much of his success can be traced to his...

4:04AM

Beijing's investigation of China National Petroleum Corp executives exposes the country's largest state-owned energy firm to possible probes by the authorities in the United States and Britain...

4:17AM

The state-owned oil and gas giant once run by former Communist Party leader Zhou Yongkang has pledged to maintain stability despite a government corruption probe into four of its senior executives...

2:49PM

Top Communist Party leaders have agreed to open a corruption investigation into former security tsar Zhou Yongkang, one of China's most powerful politicians in the past decade.

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