https://www.scmp.com/rss/280321/feed Liu Yunshan began his career as a schoolteacher in Inner Mongolia's Tuzuo Banner region and served as the chief of the Inner Mongolia branch of the Youth League, the young offshoot of the Communist Party, between 1982 and 1985. He became director of the Communist Party's Central Publicity Department and a member of the Politburo in 2002. He was promoted to the Politburo Standing Committee during the 18th Communist Party Congress in November 2012. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The inclusion of top party official Liu Yunshan in an influential macroeconomy task force suggests the new leadership under President Xi Jinping has attached greater importance to economic work and reflects concerns over challenges faced by the world's second-largest economy, analysts say. Liu, a member of the innermost Politburo Standing Committee and head of the party Secretariat, the party nerve centre, has been made a member of the Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs. On... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1577934/top-communist-party-officials-inclusion-task-force-reflects-chinas?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1577934/top-communist-party-officials-inclusion-task-force-reflects-chinas?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Aug 2014 21:00:30 +0000 The elevation of top censor Liu Yunshan to the powerful Politburo Standing Committee this week worries some mainland journalists and activists who fear a tougher line on media and internet freedom, though analysts say the situation will depend on the direction set by the new party chief, Xi Jinping. Liu, the Communist Party's propaganda chief for the past decade, has a reputation as a conservative who comes down hard on dissent. Many blame Liu and his former boss Li Changchun, who was in charge... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1084357/elevation-liu-yunshan-heightens-censorship-fears?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1084357/elevation-liu-yunshan-heightens-censorship-fears?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Chinese propaganda boss Liu Yunshan has risen to the country’s top leadership in what could be a perilous sign for online debate, critics of his censorship diktats over the last decade said on Friday. China’s population of internet users – the world’s largest at 538 million – have become increasingly vocal on its booming social media sites despite the efforts of the ruling party’s highly secretive Propaganda Department. In China, Twitter itself is blocked but “weibos”, or microblogging sites,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1084200/china-top-censors-new-leadership-role-raises-fears?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1084200/china-top-censors-new-leadership-role-raises-fears?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:31:00 +0000 New man at the top Xi Jinping an enigma Who is Xi Jinping? Although he has finally risen to the supreme office in the world's most populous nation and second-largest economic power, Xi Jinping remains an enigmatic cipher - even to many of his fellow Communist Party apparatchiks. Since his succession was set five years ago, the state media has gone out of its way to paint Xi in a favourable light. He is often depicted as a mature, competent and popular statesman, one meticulously groomed over... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1083397/seven-men-who-rule-billion?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1083397/seven-men-who-rule-billion?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Interactive Infographic: China's new leadership by Joe Lo    1 The rise of Xi Jinping, China's next leader Xi Jinping will be the next leader of China, but to many observers he remains something of a cipher. In a three-part-series, the Post attempts to solve the mysteries of President Hu Jintao's successor by examining his early postings in rural Hebei and the work in the affluent coastal provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang that were the foundation for his rise (Full profile by Shi Jiangtao in... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1082901/whos-who-seven-party-heavyweights-named-chinas-politburo-core?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1082901/whos-who-seven-party-heavyweights-named-chinas-politburo-core?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:55:52 +0000 Communist Party propaganda chief Liu Yunshan is tipped to lead the Secretariat of the party's Central Committee - another victory for the conservatives in their efforts to gain control of the party's power centre in the once-in-a-decade leadership reshuffle. Meanwhile, in a move that confirms earlier reports that Vice-Premier Wang Qishan would be elevated to the Politburo Standing Committee, where he would lead the fight against corruption, Wang Dong, a party congress delegate and chairman of... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1081922/liu-yunshan-tipped-lead-central-committee-secretariat?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1081922/liu-yunshan-tipped-lead-central-committee-secretariat?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Jiao Li , a former close aide to top Communist Party propaganda official Liu Yunshan , has been dismissed as deputy director of the General Administration of Press and Publications (GAPP) in a sign that he could face party discipline over rumoured links to corruption and sex scandals. His biographical details have been removed from a section on the administration's official website about its leaders. A GAPP official refused yesterday to say when he was dismissed. "But as far as I know he's never... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1063495/top-mainland-press-official-jiao-li-dismissed-amid-corruption-claims?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1063495/top-mainland-press-official-jiao-li-dismissed-amid-corruption-claims?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Two years after his Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo remains imprisoned, relatives are under house arrest or cowed into silence and, supporters say, the democratic change he sought seems further away than ever. As the Nobel committee in Oslo prepares to award this year's prestigious prize today, the dissident writer remains the world's only jailed Nobel peace laureate, with more than seven years left to go of a sentence for subversion. The Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, a Hong... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1059002/liu-xiaobo-still-hidden-behind-veil-silence-two-years-after-nobel-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1059002/liu-xiaobo-still-hidden-behind-veil-silence-two-years-after-nobel-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 If it is he who will oversee ideology, there will no longer be any hope Dai Qing, an activist and friend of detained Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, on the promotion chances of propaganda chief Liu Yunshan   If there is not something to hide, there is no need to hide it and certainly no need to repeatedly lie A U.S. anti-doping agency report condemns disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong's relationship with a physician linked to drugs   I think it is fair to say, I was too polite U.S. President Barack... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1059011/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1059011/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Two years after his Nobel peace prize, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo remains imprisoned, relatives are under house arrest or cowed into silence and, supporters say, the democratic change he sought seems further away than ever. As the Nobel committee in Oslo prepares to award this year’s prestigious prize on Friday, the dissident writer remains the world’s only jailed Nobel peace laureate, with more than seven years left to go of a Chinese prison term for subversion. Little is now known about Liu,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1058615/liu-still-chinas-invisible-man-two-years-after-nobel?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1058615/liu-still-chinas-invisible-man-two-years-after-nobel?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:35:55 +0000 Liu Yunshan began his career as a schoolteacher in Inner Mongolia's Tuzuo Banner region and served as the chief of the Inner Mongolia branch of the Youth League, the young offshoot of the Communist Party, between 1982 and 1985. He became director of the Communist Party's Central Publicity Department and a member of the Politburo in 2002. He was promoted to the Politburo Standing Committee during the 18th Communist Party Congress in November 2012. https://www.scmp.com/news/18th-party-congress/article/1053136/liu-yunshan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/18th-party-congress/article/1053136/liu-yunshan?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:32:59 +0000 Liu Yunshan , head of the Communist Party's Publicity Department and widely tipped as a strong candidate for elevation to the Politburo Standing Committee, has spared no effort in touting President Hu Jintao's new motto on party propaganda. On September 6, he presided over a conference to mobilise state media to step up coverage of how grass-roots people have upheld the ideology of the party. Shifting the emphasis to ordinary people is a campaign launched by Hu, under the banner "Go to the grass... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1039379/mainland-propaganda-chief-liu-yunshan-eyes-top-party-post?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1039379/mainland-propaganda-chief-liu-yunshan-eyes-top-party-post?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Former party leader Jiang Zemin's influence may eclipse that of current general secretary Hu Jintao in the next decade as the new mainland leadership line-up begins to take shape. The Communist Party will unveil its once-in-a-decade reshuffle at its 18th national congress in a few weeks. While it is never publicly discussed, the country's political elite has spent the better part of the year in frenzied mud-slinging, horse-trading, alliance-building and lobbying. Now the dust is finally... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1028989/jiang-zemins-allies-set-eclipse-hu-jintaos-new-standing-committee?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1028989/jiang-zemins-allies-set-eclipse-hu-jintaos-new-standing-committee?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:00:00 +0000 A young migrant worker who saved an infant from a 20-metre fall in Guangzhou has become the latest person to be lionised in a national propaganda campaign to counter a perceived lack of Good Samaritans on the mainland. Zhou Chong , 23, has been showered with rewards, offered jobs by state-run enterprises and repeatedly asked to recount how he rescued a three-year-old girl he saw dangling by the neck while he was on his way to a job interview earlier this month. He has had his face splashed... https://www.scmp.com/article/1005566/migrant-worker-becomes-latest-hero-our-era?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/1005566/migrant-worker-becomes-latest-hero-our-era?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:00:00 +0000 A television series intended to pay tribute to the Communist Party has drawn the ire and even disgust of some viewers for its perceived white-washing of a key part of the Cultural Revolution. Zhiqing or Sent-down Youth, which began airing at prime time on the main China Central Television channel last month, centres on the lives of a group of young people sent to rural Heilongjiang province between 1966 and 1976. While much of the story, written by renowned novelist Liang Xiao-sheng, has so far... https://www.scmp.com/article/1004218/tv-drama-sent-down-youth-too-rosy-say-critics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/1004218/tv-drama-sent-down-youth-too-rosy-say-critics?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Liu Lefei, a senior executive at Citic Securities, China's No 1 brokerage, is set to leave to pursue personal interests, amid growing concern on the mainland about children of top government leaders often taking up important positions at large state-owned enterprises. People with direct knowledge of the matter told the South China Morning Post yesterday that Liu had resigned as chairman of Beijing-based Citic Private Equity Funds Management, a unit of Citic Securities. Wang Dongming, chairman of... https://www.scmp.com/article/1003833/princeling-manager-exit-citic-securities?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/1003833/princeling-manager-exit-citic-securities?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Senior members of the Communist Party held an internal poll in mid-May to select their favoured top leaders for the next 10 years, in a significant reformist step that may be institutionalised in the future. In the poll, about 370 members and alternate members of the party's Central Committee cast preferences for the party's decision-making Politburo, currently a 25-member body, and the Politburo Standing Committee, its inner-most cabinet, according to sources who have knowledge of internal... https://www.scmp.com/article/1003317/party-polls-370-members-choice-top-leaders?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/1003317/party-polls-370-members-choice-top-leaders?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:00:00 +0000