https://www.scmp.com/rss/324035/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Guangdong Communist Party boss Hu Chunhua made a high-profile declaration of his political loyalty in front of the provincial party congress on Monday. He repeatedly mentioned President Xi Jinping in his nearly 100-minute speech, referring to him as the party’s core and stressing the importance of concepts earlier proposed by the state leader. Hu’s speech comes ahead of China’s major leadership reshuffle this autumn, in which he stands a strong chance of being named as one of the handful of... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2095340/guangdong-party-chief-hu-chunhua-spells-out-his-loyalty?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2095340/guangdong-party-chief-hu-chunhua-spells-out-his-loyalty?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 May 2017 07:00:00 +0000 The “two sessions” in Beijing – the annual meetings of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference – offer some sense and insight about China’s governance. Attending them this year, I have come away with several impressions. One is the conjunction of two ways of thinking that Westerners would deem incompatible: stricter conformity and enforcement of political orthodoxy, and greater freedom and encouragement to critique government programmes. To... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2079109/chinas-two-sessions-delivers-core-message-xi-jinpings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2079109/chinas-two-sessions-delivers-core-message-xi-jinpings?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Mar 2017 07:35:23 +0000 Cui Yongyuan may be a former host on China’s state-run national broadcaster but he is no fan of the country’s news censors. On Friday, Cui lashed out regulators taking the razor to news coverage and movies. “[The censors] simply block everything they don’t like in a way I would call rude and barbarian … I don’t think they’re helping the Communist Party or the government at all. They are only causing more trouble,” he said. China’s internet censorship under fire – but proposal against controls... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2078472/lone-voices-dissent-chinas-political-wilderness?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2078472/lone-voices-dissent-chinas-political-wilderness?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Mar 2017 00:00:50 +0000 As the Communist Party’s twice-a-decade national congress and its key power transition approaches, most of the party’s political stars are keeping a low profile on the sidelines of the annual session of the top legislature. Things were different at the session five years ago, just ahead of the leadership reshuffle at the party’s 18th national congress. The open-to-foreign-media sessions of the Xinjiang deputies of the National People’s Congress were focal points for journalists. This was under... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2078498/five-years-why-are-chinas-political-stars-shying?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2078498/five-years-why-are-chinas-political-stars-shying?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:51:00 +0000 The top Communist Party official in Liaoning lashed out on Sunday at his disgraced predecessor, accusing him of disregarding the party’s authority in a massive legislative vote-buying scandal. The attack by Li Xi, 60, party boss of the rust-belt northern province, on former Liaoning chief Wang Min confirmed an exclusive report by the South China Morning Post in early October. In an unprecedented move, the National People’s Congress, the country’s top legislature, dismissed 45 of roughly 100 of... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2076258/rising-communist-star-blasts-chinese-party-bigwig?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2076258/rising-communist-star-blasts-chinese-party-bigwig?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Mar 2017 01:02:01 +0000 Shanghai Communist Party boss Han Zheng is one of the top contenders for a seat on the Politburo Standing Committee later this year, following in the footsteps of other leaders of China’s commercial capital. It would prove that persistence pays off, with the 63-year-old not even counted among potential dark horses a decade ago when political analysts were compiling lists of rising political stars on the mainland. If he does secure a seat on the innermost Politburo Standing Committee at the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2075151/tenacious-political-survivor-tipped-key-economic-role?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2075151/tenacious-political-survivor-tipped-key-economic-role?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Mar 2017 03:33:26 +0000 The ideas and capabilities of a new generation of economic policymakers taking centre stage in Beijing will determine whether China moves further towards an open and ordered market economy. The South China Morning Post today continues a series looking at those likely to shape China’s economic future. When Liu Shiyu was named head of China’s stock market watchdog a year ago, analysts in Beijing joked that he was taking over “the least wanted job” in town. After a spectacular rout the previous... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2072982/can-head-chinas-stock-market-watchdog-hunt-down?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2072982/can-head-chinas-stock-market-watchdog-hunt-down?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Mar 2017 08:00:45 +0000 At the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1993, Liu He, then a junior Chinese government official, attended a round-table debate about the future of the world’s economy. “I was the lowest-ranking official at the table but got most of the questions,” Liu recalled in an article published in 2008. He wrote that Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore, told him China had to pay attention to urbanisation. “China’s biggest challenge is urbanisation ... it is a process that will change... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2074276/xis-right-hand-man-can-see-big-picture?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2074276/xis-right-hand-man-can-see-big-picture?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:00:30 +0000 The old generation of economic policymakers in Beijing is ceding centre stage to a new one as the Trump administration in the US threatens to tear up the global trade rule book. Whether China will move towards an open and ordered market economy, based on the achievements of people such as central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan, will be largely dependent on the new team’s ideas and capabilities. The South China Morning Post today introduces a series looking at those who have contributed to China’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2072921/chinas-leaders-still-banking-irreplaceable-central-bank-chief?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2072921/chinas-leaders-still-banking-irreplaceable-central-bank-chief?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Feb 2017 06:29:24 +0000