https://www.scmp.com/rss/326507/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com China has just passed a new law that will replace existing regulations on wholly foreign-owned enterprises and on joint ventures involving overseas companies. In response to changing global realities and the need to further open up its economy, the new law includes many stipulations that aim to foster a level playing field for foreign and domestic enterprises.  Forced technology transfer, one of the main issues driving the US-China trade war, will now be banned. The law also emphasises... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/3002701/chinas-new-foreign-investment-law-opens-door?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/3002701/chinas-new-foreign-investment-law-opens-door?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:00:13 +0000 Hong Kong usually does not feature prominently in the central government’s annual work report to the national parliament. But the message from the annual sessions of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Committee is unambiguous. We should continue to guard against separatism and move along the directions laid down for better growth and development of the city and nation as a whole. As usual, the brief references to Hong Kong have attracted much scrutiny... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2189085/city-can-feel-benefit-joining-push-national-development?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2189085/city-can-feel-benefit-joining-push-national-development?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:18:08 +0000 It may not be a contest to everyone’s tastes – rising before dawn to stand in line for hours in Beijing’s smog and cold, and all for the prize of the rather dry-sounding annual government work report. But for the handful of journalists huddled at the gate before the Great Hall of the People, professional pride was at stake as they vied to be the first to publish the key facts and figures. The big news wires had arrived first, at around midnight, and as more journalists arrived they began to... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2188738/inside-beijing-hack-packs-race-news?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2188738/inside-beijing-hack-packs-race-news?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:40:21 +0000 China and the United States are “certain” to reach an agreement on opening up the financial sector, China’s top banking regulator said on Tuesday. Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, said the two sides were moving to resolve their concerns and disagreements in their trade talks. “I can say with certainty that, on the opening up of the finance sector, China and the US can achieve a complete agreement,” Guo said in response to a question by the South... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2188670/china-and-us-certain-reach-deal-opening-financial-sector?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2188670/china-and-us-certain-reach-deal-opening-financial-sector?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Mar 2019 05:08:32 +0000 China is cautiously optimistic about reaching a trade war deal with the US, but it is prepared to retaliate if Washington returns to tariffs after the Xi Jinping-Donald Trump meeting expected this month, analysts said. They made that assessment after a senior Chinese diplomat called on China and the United States to strike a trade deal and avoid a confrontation he said his country did not want, but will respond to if necessary. Zhang Yesui, a spokesman for the National People’s Congress and a... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2188517/china-wants-trade-deal-will-defend-its-interests-if-necessary?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2188517/china-wants-trade-deal-will-defend-its-interests-if-necessary?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Mar 2019 07:33:18 +0000 The trade war with the US was the elephant in the room as the annual gathering of China’s political advisers began in Beijing on Sunday. And while it was not directly mentioned in the advisory body’s official work report, the potential impact of trade tensions on the nation’s development could be found reading between the lines, and on the sidelines, of the meeting. Addressing more than 2,000 representatives of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Wang Yang – chairman... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2188441/trade-war-us-elephant-room-chinas-political-advisers-meet?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2188441/trade-war-us-elephant-room-chinas-political-advisers-meet?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 03 Mar 2019 13:49:42 +0000 A senior Chinese government official said negotiators from China and the United States were working on the next steps to end their trade war, after Washington demanded Beijing remove all tariffs on American agricultural products. Guo Weimin, spokesman for China’s political advisory body, on Saturday said a trade deal between the two nations would send a positive signal for the global economy. Guo was speaking ahead of the opening of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference on... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2188364/cooperation-best-way-forward-china-and-us-work-end-trade-war?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2188364/cooperation-best-way-forward-china-and-us-work-end-trade-war?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 02 Mar 2019 11:55:37 +0000 China named a new Communist Party secretary for the country’s central bank on Monday, creating a puzzling double-headed leadership structure. Veteran reformer Guo Shuqing, who was confirmed last week as the head of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, will take the bank’s party secretary role – a position that makes him the real boss in areas such as personnel appointments within the central bank, according to its website. The appointment of the 62-year-old is extraordinary... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2138979/so-whos-really-charge-chinas-central-bank-new-double-headed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2138979/so-whos-really-charge-chinas-central-bank-new-double-headed?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:00:30 +0000 Beijing has broken with tradition and named a low profile official to head up its finance ministry and manage an annual flow of about US$5 trillion worth of government funds. The appointment of 62-year-old Liu Kun as China’s new finance chief is surprising as he is the first person in decades to be given the position without being a member of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, although he is a member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. In his first public speech on Sunday,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2138744/can-chinas-new-finance-chief-deliver-president-xi-jinpings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2138744/can-chinas-new-finance-chief-deliver-president-xi-jinpings?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Mar 2018 02:45:45 +0000 Once considered a possible future president, Hu Chunhua was on Monday installed as one of China’s four vice-premiers on the penultimate day of the National People’s Congress in Beijing. His appointment, along with those of fellow deputies Sun Chunlan, Liu He and Han Zheng, and five State Councillors, was confirmed as President Xi Jinping put pen to paper in front of almost 3,000 lawmakers at the Great Hall of the People. The former Communist Party chief of Guangdong province – China’s richest –... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137925/man-once-most-likely-replace-chinese-president-xi?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137925/man-once-most-likely-replace-chinese-president-xi?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:58:32 +0000 China has unveiled most of the main players charged with handling the vexed Sino-US ties, with the elevation of Foreign Minister Wang Yi to state councillor at the national legislature’s annual meeting in Beijing on Monday. Wang’s rise to state councillor – a position not previously held by a serving foreign minister – is among a number of moves expected to raise the profile of diplomats in the nation’s decision-making structure as North Korea, Taiwan and the South China Sea – and the US – loom... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2137922/meet-team-china-expects-unknot-ties-united-states?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2137922/meet-team-china-expects-unknot-ties-united-states?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:30:30 +0000 Harvard-educated economist Liu He is set to play a pivotal role in the management of China’s US$12 trillion economy – alongside newly appointed central bank governor Yi Gang – after being named on Monday as one the country’s four vice-premiers. While the division of duties among the four deputies to Premier Li Keqiang has yet to be announced, 66-year-old Liu is the hot favourite to lead on economic and financial affairs, which would include the handling of trade issues with the United... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2137913/vice-premier-liu-he-set-lead-chinas-new-economic-team-government?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2137913/vice-premier-liu-he-set-lead-chinas-new-economic-team-government?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:45:00 +0000 When an “authoritative person” declared on the front page of Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily in May 2016 that the days of high-speed growth were over in China, few doubted the message came right from the top. President Xi Jinping’s right-hand man, Liu He, 66, then the director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs, was widely believed to be the source of the stinging rebuke to then vice-premier Zhang Gaoli’s high-profile claims that 2016 had got... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2137860/liu-he-chinas-new-one-man-debt-bomb-disposal-unit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2137860/liu-he-chinas-new-one-man-debt-bomb-disposal-unit?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Mar 2018 08:34:08 +0000 Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of China’s central bank for more than 15 years, has officially retired from his office, ending an extraordinary long central banking career in which he became known as “China’s Alan Greenspan”. Zhou, 70, has been credited for freeing up interest rates at home and earning the yuan a nominal reserve currency status abroad. But he has also been criticised for allowing the Chinese government’s massive stimulus to create a mountain of debt and for letting financial risks... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2137846/chinas-alan-greenspan-steps-down-central-bank-chief-after-more-15?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2137846/chinas-alan-greenspan-steps-down-central-bank-chief-after-more-15?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Mar 2018 06:45:29 +0000 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has been promoted to a state councillor, a move elevating his status in the nation’s decision-making structure. Wang will keep his foreign minister title in a list of government appointments endorsed by the National People’s Congress on Monday morning. The move comes as China shakes up its foreign affairs structure in an effort to raise the country’s profile on the world stage. Xi shakes up Chinese government to cut bureaucracy, end turf wars The existing foreign... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2137769/china-promotes-foreign-minister-wang-yi-state?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2137769/china-promotes-foreign-minister-wang-yi-state?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Mar 2018 02:12:01 +0000 Despite rumours that some serious heavyweights were in the running for the top job at the People’s Bank of China – including newly elected Vice-Premier Liu He – with the benefit of hindsight, the appointment of Yi Gang was never really in doubt. Not only had he served a 10-year apprenticeship as deputy governor under Zhou Xiaochuan – whose retirement after 15 years was confirmed on Monday – but he had also spent a decade studying and working in financial fields overseas. As Beijing seeks to... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2137763/china-appoints-yi-gang-central-bank-governor-liu-he-vice-premier?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2137763/china-appoints-yi-gang-central-bank-governor-liu-he-vice-premier?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Mar 2018 01:15:00 +0000 When an unassuming man was lost looking for his bus among the fleets parked near Tiananmen Square in October last year, few would have guessed that he was one of the Communist Party’s most powerful graft-busters. Yang Xiaodu, a deputy director of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, was second only to Zhao Leji, then the newly elected head of the CCDI. As he looked for his ride back to his hotel during the Communist Party’s national congress, the few journalists who did recognise... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137740/low-profile-cadre-who-rocketed-ranks-take-helm-chinas?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137740/low-profile-cadre-who-rocketed-ranks-take-helm-chinas?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Mar 2018 14:31:15 +0000 The Communist Party’s second-ranking graft-buster was appointed head of the country’s new sweeping anti-corruption body on Sunday – a surprise move that effectively asserts the party’s ultimate authority above the powerful state agency. Yang Xiaodu, a deputy chief of the party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, was elected director of the National Supervisory Commission in a largely ceremonial vote by the party-controlled legislature. The controversial new body will extend the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137735/yang-xiaodu-surprise-choice-head-chinas-new-powerful?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137735/yang-xiaodu-surprise-choice-head-chinas-new-powerful?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Mar 2018 12:31:55 +0000 Chinese Premier Li Keqiang began a second five-year term on Sunday after President Xi Jinping’s nomination for him to remain in office was endorsed by the National People’s Congress. Li, 62, received 2,964 votes in favour and just two against. Xi on Saturday received unanimous support to remain as president, while just one delegate voted against Xi’s close ally, Wang Qishan, becoming vice-president. Meanwhile, on the military front, Xu Qiliang (four abstain) and Zhang Youxia (two votes against,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2137707/li-keqiang-endorsed-chinas-premier-while-military-commission?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2137707/li-keqiang-endorsed-chinas-premier-while-military-commission?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Mar 2018 07:30:37 +0000 A Communist Party deputy anti-corruption chief and President Xi Jinping’s trusted aide has been appointed head of China’s controversial new super anti-graft agency. Yang Xiaodu’s nomination as chief of the new National Supervisory Commission, which was endorsed by the National People’s Congress on Sunday, has surprised some political observers.  The super commission merges the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and several other government anti-graft departments. It... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137685/xi-aide-likely-head-chinas-anti-corruption-super-agency?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137685/xi-aide-likely-head-chinas-anti-corruption-super-agency?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Mar 2018 02:45:30 +0000 Xi Jinping started his second term as China’s president on Saturday with a show of unchallenged authority, receiving full support from the legislature while his trusted ally was brought back to political centre stage. With no other candidate in the running, the unanimous vote by the largely ceremonial National People’s Congress was more of a political statement – proclaiming unequivocal loyalty and deference to the country’s most powerful leader in decades. In another confirmation of Xi’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137669/xi-jinpings-second-term-begins-show-unequivocal-loyalty?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137669/xi-jinpings-second-term-begins-show-unequivocal-loyalty?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Mar 2018 14:51:48 +0000 When China unveils the line-up of its top state leadership on Saturday, one man will probably receive more attention than President Xi Jinping – his trusted ally Wang Qishan. With Xi’s status a certainty, all eyes will be on whether Wang, who retired from the Communist Party’s top echelon in October, will become the vice-president as expected. If that happens, it will mark a formal return of the 69-year-old to the centre stage of Chinese politics. He will become Xi’s wingman and transform a... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137398/will-wang-qishans-new-job-become-problem-communist?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137398/will-wang-qishans-new-job-become-problem-communist?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Mar 2018 01:30:45 +0000 Foreign diplomats and businesspeople expect China’s former anti-graft tsar to play a key role in de-escalating trade tensions with the United States, and that he could also get global relations higher up the nation’s policymaking agenda. Containing tensions with Washington and other economic trouble spots are expected to be the top priorities for Wang Qishan – known for his “firefighting” skills and ability to handle the tough tasks – when he takes charge of diplomatic issues as China’s new... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137384/can-chinas-firefighter-wang-qishan-break-deadlock-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137384/can-chinas-firefighter-wang-qishan-break-deadlock-us?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0000 Wang Yang sent a ripple through the Chinese political world six years ago, when as Guangdong’s Communist Party boss he suggested publicly that the party was not the people’s benefactor. “We must eradicate the incorrect idea that happiness is a benevolent gift from the party and the government,” Wang told the annual top gathering of provincial party cadres. “It is the people’s right to pursue happiness and it is the party’s and the government’s responsibility to do good for the people.” That... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137217/wang-yang-down-earth-liberal-taking-chinas-top-advisory?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137217/wang-yang-down-earth-liberal-taking-chinas-top-advisory?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:04:41 +0000 Wang Yang, a vice-premier and member of China’s apex of power, was elected chairman of the country’s political advisory body on Wednesday. He received full votes from the 2,144 delegates to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of People in Beijing. They also elected 24 vice-chairs and standing committee members for a new five-year term until 2023. Wang was Guangdong’s party boss from 2007 to 2012 and is credited with putting the province on track to becoming... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137223/wang-yang-takes-helm-chinas-top-political-advisory-body?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137223/wang-yang-takes-helm-chinas-top-political-advisory-body?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:19:16 +0000 One of the key players in China’s financial liberalisation over the last decade and a half said on Friday that he was honoured to have been part of the process and urged the country to be bolder in embracing foreign competition. In what is likely to be one of his last public appearances as head of the People’s Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, 70, said he could not isolate any one pivotal moment in his more than 15 years in the job because there had been so many. “I have worked for so many years in... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2136579/be-bolder-chinese-central-bank-chief-zhou-xiaochuan-looks-back-he?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2136579/be-bolder-chinese-central-bank-chief-zhou-xiaochuan-looks-back-he?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:21:39 +0000 The premier was on the podium but at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday all eyes were on China’s former anti-graft tsar. As the imposing head of the party’s anticorruption watchdog, Wang Qishan cut a swathe through officialdom, and on Monday, as Premier Li Keqiang listed the government’s achievements of the last five years, Wang cut a commanding figure, with the Communist Party elite lining up to shake the hand of the man who would be vice-president. The moment Li’s speech was... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2135821/premier-li-keqiang-has-spotlight-wang-qishan-centre?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2135821/premier-li-keqiang-has-spotlight-wang-qishan-centre?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:30:15 +0000 Technology entrepreneurs are having a stronger presence in China’s political scene like never before, underscoring the ambitious programme by the government of the world’s second-largest economy to gain an edge in every technological field from artificial intelligence to big data and robotics. Almost every new face making their debut as advisers representing the business sector of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, as the 2,158-member advisory body in the bicameral... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2135642/tech-entrepreneurs-replace-real-estate-tycoons-political-advisers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2135642/tech-entrepreneurs-replace-real-estate-tycoons-political-advisers?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Mar 2018 10:59:14 +0000 China’s annual gathering of political and economic elites began in Beijing on Saturday and more than half of the faces were new amid a five-yearly reshuffle. Gone were the descendants of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, the outspoken adviser who criticised a former premier, and the entertainers with connections to Communist Party factions. More than half of the 2,158 delegates to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference are attending the meeting at the Great Hall of the People for the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2135580/china-brings-new-mainstream-top-advisory-body?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2135580/china-brings-new-mainstream-top-advisory-body?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Mar 2018 15:45:15 +0000 A “reticent” general who was instrumental in the break-up of the strategic missile force he headed – even though it was not in his interests – is expected to become China’s new defence minister, sources said. General Wei Fenghe was named as one of the members of the Communist Party’s powerful Central Military Commission (CMC) on October 25. Wei, the last commander of the Second Artillery Corps – before it became the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force – is known as a strategist whose political... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2134555/reticent-general-rockets-ranks-central-military?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2134555/reticent-general-rockets-ranks-central-military?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Feb 2018 06:30:00 +0000 For the thousands of China watchers, economists, executives and diplomats gathered at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss hamlet of Davos last month, Liu He was likely to have been a star attraction. Liu, chief economic adviser to the Chinese government and one of the 25 most powerful people in the Politburo, was there to deliver a speech on the way forward for China’s economic programme over the next five years. He did not disappoint. To a roomful of attendees, Liu promised in Chinese that... https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/2133976/xi-picks-most-qualified-team-problem-solvers-head-chinas?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/2133976/xi-picks-most-qualified-team-problem-solvers-head-chinas?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:45:15 +0000 Wang Qishan, China’s former formidable anti-corruption tsar, has defied political convention to hold on to a seat in the nation’s top legislature, paving the way for him to remain a player in state affairs for years to come. Wang, 69, stepped down from the supreme, seven-member Politburo Standing Committee in October after reaching the Communist Party’s unofficial retirement age of 68. The South China Morning Post reported in December that Wang, who rolled out Chinese President Xi Jinping’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2131097/chinas-retired-anticorruption-tsar-wang-qishan-holds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2131097/chinas-retired-anticorruption-tsar-wang-qishan-holds?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:30:30 +0000 China's point man on Sino-US trade ties is set to move on to be the country’s top political adviser and take direct charge of the Communist Party’s public engagement campaigns. The appearance of Wang Yang, 63, at a national party gathering on engaging non-party sections of society is the latest sign that the former Chinese representative in high-level economic talks with the United States will take up the outreach portfolio. It also comes as China’s activities abroad are under greater scrutiny... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2128703/chinas-go-man-us-trade-take-communist-partys-top-job?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2128703/chinas-go-man-us-trade-take-communist-partys-top-job?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:00:30 +0000 China’s Communist Party unveiled its new leadership team on Wednesday. The membership of the party’s supreme decision-making body, the Politburo Standing Committee, remains at seven. Other than Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang, the other five members of the committee are new faces following the retirement of the previous members. The six other Standing Committee members will play a key role in affirming the core leadership of Xi, who has had his name enshrined in the party charter. The party also... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2116951/premier-lis-second-term-likonomics-following-orders?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2116951/premier-lis-second-term-likonomics-following-orders?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:45:00 +0000 Li Zhanshu is one of the new members of the Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee. Here we take a dive into his background: When Li Zhanshu was named de facto chief of staff to the head of China’s Communist Party five years ago, just months before Xi Jinping became its leader, few people expected he would one day ascend to the party’s apex of power. But his “election” to the party’s supreme Politburo Standing Committee on Wednesday, ranking just after Xi and Premier Li Keqiang, was no... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2116576/li-zhanshu-key-aide-chinas-xi-jinping-vaults-top?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2116576/li-zhanshu-key-aide-chinas-xi-jinping-vaults-top?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000 Wang Yang is one of the new members of the Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee. Here we present a snapshot of his career: Wang Yang, who has just been named as one of China’s top leaders, is perhaps best known outside the country for the unlikely image of a senior Chinese politician cracking jokes at a Sino-US summit. Wang broke the stereotype of the humourless and bland Chinese Communist Party technocrat by jesting that China and America’s relationship was like a marriage, but then... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2116738/wang-yang-joker-and-reformer-xi-jinpings-new-pack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2116738/wang-yang-joker-and-reformer-xi-jinpings-new-pack?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000 Han Zheng is one of the new members of the Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee. Here we examine his path to a seat at the innermost decision-making body: If Shanghai Communist Party boss Han Zheng has proved anything over the past decade it is that he knows how to navigate choppy waters. In 2008, Han, then the financial hub’s mayor, looked to be heading for the exit rather than the highest reaches of power, as his immediate boss was ordered to serve 18 years behind bars for his role... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2116965/han-zheng-chinese-technocrat-who-rose-top-staying?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2116965/han-zheng-chinese-technocrat-who-rose-top-staying?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000