https://www.scmp.com/rss/518006/feed The latest news on Chinese politician and aerospace engineer Ma Xingrui, including political stories and updates. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com SCMP Sport,Agence France-Presse SCMP Sport,Agence France-Presse China’s top anti-corruption body said on Wednesday it was investigating the head of the country’s badminton association for “serious violations of discipline and law”. Olympic gold medallist Zhang Jun, chairman of the Chinese Badminton Association (CBA) and vice-president of the Nanjing Sport Institute, has been placed “under disciplinary review”, it said on its website. Jun is also being investigated by the Nantong Municipal Supervisory Commission in eastern Jiangsu province, the statement... https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3351897/chinas-anti-corruption-body-probes-badminton-association-chief-zhang-jun?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3351897/chinas-anti-corruption-body-probes-badminton-association-chief-zhang-jun?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:48:10 +0000 Yuanyue Dang Yuanyue Dang Ma Xingrui, a member of China’s Politburo and the former Communist Party boss of Xinjiang, is being investigated by the anti-corruption watchdog, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday. He is the third member of the ruling party’s elite political body to come under investigation in the current term that began in 2022, a situation unseen in decades. He Weidong, former vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), is also being investigated and was expelled from the party... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3348968/ma-xingrui-third-politburo-member-investigated-chinas-anti-corruption-bodies?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3348968/ma-xingrui-third-politburo-member-investigated-chinas-anti-corruption-bodies?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:05:08 +0000 Xinlu Liang Xinlu Liang A former top official of Guangdong province, widely seen as a “right-hand man” of former provincial governor Ma Xingrui, is under investigation for corruption. The investigation into Guo Yonghang, Communist Party secretary for Guangzhou from June 2023 until December, deepens the uncertainties about the fate of Ma, who was abruptly removed as Xinjiang’s party secretary in July and has since vanished from public life. Guo was named vice-chairman of the Guangdong provincial committee of the Chinese... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3348206/china-puts-ma-xingrui-protege-guo-yonghang-under-investigation-corruption?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3348206/china-puts-ma-xingrui-protege-guo-yonghang-under-investigation-corruption?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:00:13 +0000 Yuanyue Dang,William Zheng Yuanyue Dang,William Zheng In the run-up to this year’s ‘two sessions’ – the annual meetings of China’s top legislature and political advisory body – high-level policymakers have stressed the need to defuse financial risks and root out political corruption, two of President Xi Jinping’s long-term priorities. As part of a series, Yuanyue Dang and William Zheng look at why the fight against graft is the new normal. As early as the start of President Xi Jinping’s second term in 2018, the Chinese leadership declared an... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3345287/chinas-war-corruption-just-end-beginning?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3345287/chinas-war-corruption-just-end-beginning?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:00:12 +0000 William Zheng William Zheng Another senior official in Xinjiang has been placed under investigation amid Beijing’s vow to resolutely “eradicate the soil for corruption”. Chen Weijun, executive vice-chairman of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, was “under disciplinary review and supervisory investigation” for suspected “serious violations of discipline and law”, China’s top anti-graft agency said on Sunday, referencing a euphemism for corruption. The announcement from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI)... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3334793/no-soil-corruption-chen-weijun-joins-list-senior-xinjiang-officials-investigated?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3334793/no-soil-corruption-chen-weijun-joins-list-senior-xinjiang-officials-investigated?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:25:10 +0000 William Zheng William Zheng A senior Chinese official with a background in water resources and ethnic affairs has been named as the new Communist Party boss of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. In a one-paragraph announcement on Tuesday, state news agency Xinhua said the party’s Central Committee “recently decided” that Chen Xiaojiang would serve as party secretary of Xinjiang. The move might clear the path for Chen, one of the 300 or so members of the Central Committee, to be promoted within the party’s hierarchy, given... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3316502/chinas-ethnic-affairs-chief-communist-party-helm-xinjiang?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3316502/chinas-ethnic-affairs-chief-communist-party-helm-xinjiang?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:00:07 +0000 William Zheng William Zheng Officials across China are avoiding dining out to “play safe”, as the country’s latest austerity drive spirals into an overbearing campaign of excessive control like many similar ones before it. Several officials interviewed said that the lifestyle change, even if temporary, was largely prompted by the ever-shifting local austerity measures, which could be even more stringent than the regulations originating from the central state and party bodies. An official in southwestern Sichuan province... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3316160/why-are-chinese-civil-servants-down-line-saying-no-dining-out?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3316160/why-are-chinese-civil-servants-down-line-saying-no-dining-out?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 Jun 2025 04:00:13 +0000 Ambassadors from more than 20 countries showed support for China’s policies in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and vowed to develop closer economic ties with the far western area as it seeks to expand its international influence amid human rights abuse allegations. While attending a reception in Beijing on Wednesday, the ambassadors from South Africa, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Syria and Turkey told Xinjiang authorities that they hoped to strengthen economic ties with the region. More than 50... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3258680/foreign-diplomats-praise-chinas-xinjiang-policies-and-vow-closer-economic-ties-far-western-region?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3258680/foreign-diplomats-praise-chinas-xinjiang-policies-and-vow-closer-economic-ties-far-western-region?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:13:21 +0000 Chinese President Xi Jinping called for efforts to boost “disruptive innovation”, integrate technology with industry, and increase supply chain resilience as he presided over this year’s first Politburo study session. At the meeting of the Communist Party’s top policymaking body on Wednesday, Xi said China must strengthen scientific and technological innovation – especially “original and disruptive” innovations – as well as achieve scientific and tech self-reliance and “fight the battle in core... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3250612/chinas-xi-jinping-pushes-disruptive-innovation-first-politburo-study-session-year?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3250612/chinas-xi-jinping-pushes-disruptive-innovation-first-politburo-study-session-year?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Feb 2024 12:04:07 +0000 Three senior Chinese aerospace-defence executives have been stripped of their titles as members of top national political advisory body in a possible sign Beijing is continuing its anti-corruption efforts in the sector that is key to China’s military capacity. Xinhua reported that the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) decided at a conference on Wednesday to revoke the seats of Wu Yansheng, chairman of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), Liu... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3246482/beijing-strips-3-aerospace-defence-executives-political-titles-china-cracks-down-corruption-crucial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3246482/beijing-strips-3-aerospace-defence-executives-political-titles-china-cracks-down-corruption-crucial?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Dec 2023 06:00:38 +0000 Once rare foreign trips by senior officials from Tibet could be aimed at drumming up support for Beijing’s choice of the next Dalai Lama, analysts said. Yan Jinhai, chairman of the Tibet autonomous region, and its Communist Party chief Wang Junzheng went on multiple-stop tours of South and Southeast Asia last month. Yan led a delegation to the Maldives, Thailand and Myanmar from November 19 to 28, to “comprehensively promote the successful practice and rich experience of the Communist Party in... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3244340/are-china-officials-aiming-charm-neighbours-over-next-dalai-lama-choice?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3244340/are-china-officials-aiming-charm-neighbours-over-next-dalai-lama-choice?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Dec 2023 04:59:56 +0000 A prominent motor engineer has been promoted to the leadership of a central Chinese province as Beijing seeks to install more cadres with science and technology background in key positions of power. Shao Xinyu, who was made a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering for his research achievements, has been appointed to the standing committee of Hubei’s provincial Communist Party committee, the newspaper Hubei Daily reported on Thursday. Shao, 55, was named a vice governor of Hubei last... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3236333/leading-chinese-car-engineer-given-provincial-leadership-role-hubei?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3236333/leading-chinese-car-engineer-given-provincial-leadership-role-hubei?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:23:49 +0000 We have all heard the “genocide” narrative from the mainstream news media about Xinjiang. Four independent German sinologists and an international law specialist investigated on site on their own initiative in May and returned with their own report. A summary by two of them has been published in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung, a Swiss-German newspaper of record. Their account may be characterised as a story in three stages: Islamist terrorism and separatism; Chinese state repression and human rights... https://www.scmp.com/comment/article/3234856/there-more-xinjiang-story-meets-western-media-eyes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/article/3234856/there-more-xinjiang-story-meets-western-media-eyes?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 17 Sep 2023 13:00:12 +0000 The most senior official in Xinjiang has met a delegation from the United Nations labour group as China seeks to counter accusations of forced labour and other human rights abuses in the region. Analyst said the meeting marked a shift away from “passively responding” to human rights criticisms on Xinjiang, and may pave the way for a field study by the International Labour Organization. ‘Seen Xinjiang with our own eyes’: Central Asian media get ‘image-building’ tour Xinjiang’s party chief Ma... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3233161/xinjiang-party-chief-meets-un-labour-group-china-seeks-confront-forced-labour-claims?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3233161/xinjiang-party-chief-meets-un-labour-group-china-seeks-confront-forced-labour-claims?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 01 Sep 2023 13:25:26 +0000 China is “proactively building” the image of Xinjiang in Central Asia, an observer said, as authorities in the western Chinese region hosted media bosses from four former Soviet republics with deep cultural and historical connections to it. The heads of 21 media organisations from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan arrived in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi on Thursday for a week-long visit organised by regional authorities, Chinese state media reported over the weekend. Events during... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3232838/china-proactively-building-image-central-asian-media-bosses-taken-xinjiang-tour?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3232838/china-proactively-building-image-central-asian-media-bosses-taken-xinjiang-tour?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 Aug 2023 10:11:35 +0000 Chinese President Xi Jinping has doubled down on “social stability” as a top priority for Xinjiang, calling for greater efforts against terrorism and religious extremism during a stop in the far western region. Xi also highlighted the need for economic development after touching down in the Xinjiang capital Urumqi on Saturday during his return from the annual Brics summit in South Africa, Chinese state media reported. “Maintaining social stability needs to be the utmost priority,” Xi said in a... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3232458/chinese-leader-xi-jinping-doubles-down-social-stability-top-priority-xinjiang-while-pushing-economic?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3232458/chinese-leader-xi-jinping-doubles-down-social-stability-top-priority-xinjiang-while-pushing-economic?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 27 Aug 2023 14:00:16 +0000 The authorities in the far-western Chinese region of Xinjiang have pledged to mount a “proactive struggle” against what they described as US-led efforts to use the region to contain China. Chinese officials are accused of carrying out large-scale human rights abuses against mainly Muslim minority groups such as the Uygurs in the region, charges Beijing has denied. In article for the Communist Party’s leading ideological journal Qiushi, the regional party committee said it would step up the use... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3227990/xinjiang-officials-say-they-will-fight-back-against-western-efforts-use-region-contain-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3227990/xinjiang-officials-say-they-will-fight-back-against-western-efforts-use-region-contain-china?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Jul 2023 10:02:15 +0000 When President Xi Jinping went on inspection tours around China during the past five years, he was always accompanied by Chen Xi, director of the Communist Party’s Central Organisation Department. It is a post that wields enormous power over party personnel changes and one that has a profound influence on how China manages its apparatchiks. In the months following the party’s national congress in October, there was a changing of the guard at the most important party organs, with the notable... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3218592/chen-xi-presidential-aide-who-built-chinas-new-technocracy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3218592/chen-xi-presidential-aide-who-built-chinas-new-technocracy?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:00:10 +0000 A first direct carrier flight between Hong Kong and mainland China’s Urumqi will take off next Wednesday, which aviation analysts have said could help the city take on a bigger role in bringing foreign investors to the Xinjiang region. The new flight, which will be run by Urumqi Air, a unit of Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, will operate every Wednesday from May 3 and is expected to shave at least three hours off previous routes between the two cities. The route’s opening was first announced by... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3218398/hong-kong-mainland-chinas-urumqi-launch-first-direct-flight-route-next-week-bid-connect-businesses?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3218398/hong-kong-mainland-chinas-urumqi-launch-first-direct-flight-route-next-week-bid-connect-businesses?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:31:02 +0000 Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang declared last month that China had “pressed [the] acceleration button” in diplomacy. In the weeks that followed, Beijing launched a diplomatic charm offensive to strengthen its ties with neighbours, with the leaders of China’s frontier provinces taking centre stage. Ma Xingrui, the Communist Party chief in China’s far western region of Xinjiang, kicked off the campaign with a four-day, three-country trip to Central Asia in late March. Meanwhile, Wang Ning, party... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3217182/chinas-provincial-leaders-take-centre-stage-beijings-diplomatic-push-charm-neighbours?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3217182/chinas-provincial-leaders-take-centre-stage-beijings-diplomatic-push-charm-neighbours?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 16 Apr 2023 06:00:23 +0000 The Communist Party chief of Xinjiang in China’s far west is making a rare trip abroad, heading a delegation visiting neighbouring Kazakhstan on a trade mission. In talks in Astana on Monday, Kazakh Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov told the group, led by Xinjiang Communist Party chief Ma Xingrui, that Kazakhstan would streamline cargo traffic into China by removing bottlenecks at border checkpoints. “Given the task set by the two heads of state to increase trade turnover to US$35 billion by 2030,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3215156/xinjiang-communist-party-boss-ventures-kazakhstan-trade-mission?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3215156/xinjiang-communist-party-boss-ventures-kazakhstan-trade-mission?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Mar 2023 03:00:15 +0000 The surveillance balloon incident raises serious concerns about China’s military intentions towards the United States. But it raises equally troubling issues about the competence of China’s military intelligence services and their apparent lack of coordination with other elements of the Chinese party-state. In that light, it is intriguing that an unusual and important new “faction” has emerged at the top of China’s political system: military-industrial technocrats. As research by the Asia... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3212374/rise-chinas-military-industrial-leaders-will-heat-race-against-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3212374/rise-chinas-military-industrial-leaders-will-heat-race-against-us?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:00:12 +0000 This year’s “two sessions” – the annual meetings of the legislature and political advisory body – begin on March 4 and will complete a twice-a-decade leadership transition, with a reshuffle of top government jobs including the premier, and Xi Jinping set to secure a third term as president. In the first of a six-part series on what to expect from this key event, Jun Mai looks at the general political direction in China. According to China’s political calendar, with its top government positions... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3211686/chinese-leader-xi-jinping-focus-economic-stability-technological-self-reliance-after-two-sessions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3211686/chinese-leader-xi-jinping-focus-economic-stability-technological-self-reliance-after-two-sessions?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:30:12 +0000 Chinese rocket scientist Yuan Jiajun, newly named to the Communist Party’s 24-member Politburo, has been appointed to take the helm of the southwestern mega city Chongqing as party secretary. The appointment was announced on Thursday by state news agency Xinhua, seven weeks after the 20th Party Congress, a landmark edition of the five-yearly conclave which saw President Xi Jinping secure a groundbreaking third term and reveal a top leadership stacked with loyalists. Yuan was named to the new... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3202482/rocket-scientist-yuan-jiajun-named-chinas-communist-party-chief-mega-city-chongqing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3202482/rocket-scientist-yuan-jiajun-named-chinas-communist-party-chief-mega-city-chongqing?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Dec 2022 02:53:52 +0000 Authorities in Urumqi in China’s far west said on Saturday the city would lift coronavirus restrictions “in phases” after footage surfaced online showing rare protests against a three-month lockdown. The surprise announcement in the Xinjiang capital came hours after videos circulated online apparently showing Urumqi residents protesting on Friday night over a residential fire that killed 10 and injured nine people on Thursday. The footage – later censored – showed hundreds of residents in a... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3201106/covid-19-china-urumqi-ease-lockdowns-amid-unrest-over-deadly-fire?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3201106/covid-19-china-urumqi-ease-lockdowns-amid-unrest-over-deadly-fire?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 26 Nov 2022 12:27:22 +0000 Southeast Asia is Hong Kong’s most potent economic hinterland outside the Chinese mainland, and there is no reason for countries in the region to view the city as a “zero-sum competitor”. That was the underlying message from top officials and commentators who participated in the inaugural Hong Kong-Asean Summit 2022 organised by the Post. Yu Hongjun, a former deputy minister of the Communist Party’s International Department, said Hong Kong’s plans to join the sprawling Regional Comprehensive... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3198335/hong-kongs-bid-join-rcep-will-tie-its-economic-future-singapore-rest-asean?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3198335/hong-kongs-bid-join-rcep-will-tie-its-economic-future-singapore-rest-asean?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Nov 2022 12:39:51 +0000 China’s new top decision-making body unveiled over the weekend comprises an unprecedented number of leaders with extensive links to Hong Kong in their previous roles and an ideologue who had long studied the city, making for a line-up analysts have suggested can lead to a smoother implementation of Beijing’s key policies related to Hong Kong. Pro-Beijing heavyweight Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai also said the new team would be “an asset” for Hong Kong as it could guide the city through an increasingly... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3197106/hong-kong-connection-what-6-chinas-top-leadership-team-including-xi-jinping-have-common?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3197106/hong-kong-connection-what-6-chinas-top-leadership-team-including-xi-jinping-have-common?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:17 +0000 More leaders with a strong science and technology background have been promoted to the upper echelon of the Communist Party as President Xi Jinping seeks to counter pressure from the West. The emphasis on science and technology was evident not only in the new line-up of the powerful Politburo announced on Sunday but also in the newly elected policymaking Central Committee. At least six new Politburo members boast qualifications in science and technology fields. Their areas of expertise range... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3196971/chinas-communist-party-looks-science-cadres-help-push-back-us-tech-squeeze?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3196971/chinas-communist-party-looks-science-cadres-help-push-back-us-tech-squeeze?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 23 Oct 2022 14:34:05 +0000 President Xi Jinping did not fully follow an unwritten retirement rule as he reshuffled the Communist Party leadership at the just-concluded 20th Communist Party congress. An eye-catching absence from the newly elected Central Committee was Chen Quanguo, the former party boss of both Xinjiang and Tibet. Chen was not among the 205 committee members whose names were announced at the close of the week-long national congress on Saturday. It was a glaring omission as Chen is 66, still below the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3196909/former-xinjiang-party-boss-chen-quanguo-among-surprise-exits-chinas-top-leadership-body?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3196909/former-xinjiang-party-boss-chen-quanguo-among-surprise-exits-chinas-top-leadership-body?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 22 Oct 2022 18:00:22 +0000 The choice of China’s new premier could indicate “more continuity than change” in Beijing’s economic policies when the country’s next leadership line-up is unveiled later this month, according to a leading US-based expert on the matter. Speaking in Washington on Tuesday, Cheng Li of the Brookings Institution offered his analysis of the 20th Party Congress slated to take place in Beijing on October 16. President Xi Jinping is widely expected to secure an unprecedented third term at the most... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3194838/new-chinese-premier-pick-could-mean-more-continuity-change-economic?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3194838/new-chinese-premier-pick-could-mean-more-continuity-change-economic?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Oct 2022 22:20:40 +0000 The Communist Party is set to hold its 20th national congress in mid-October, a gathering that will usher in a new line-up of the party’s leadership. In the third piece in a three-part series exploring the rules of the personnel reshuffle, Mimi Lau looks at the shared traits among those likely to be promoted to key national positions. In February 2020, the Communist Party faced one of its worst crises in three decades as the deadly coronavirus, first detected in the central Chinese province of... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3193290/what-does-it-take-get-promoted-chinese-politics-and-comers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3193290/what-does-it-take-get-promoted-chinese-politics-and-comers?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Sep 2022 22:00:10 +0000 The United Nations report into Xinjiang, which found that the Chinese government’s actions “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity” is likely to place further strains on the relationship between China and the West, according to diplomatic analysts. Beijing bluntly rejected the findings, which were released on Wednesday, the last day of Michelle Bachelet’s tenure as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The report, which followed Bachlet’s visit to the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3190934/anti-china-plot-beijing-slams-un-human-rights-report-xinjiang?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3190934/anti-china-plot-beijing-slams-un-human-rights-report-xinjiang?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Sep 2022 05:19:53 +0000 Senior Chinese officials have fuelled speculation that President Xi Jinping may be given the formal title of “the people’s leader” by using the phrase in a number of public statements. In one of the latest examples, Chen Yixin, secretary general of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, urged all security and judicial forces to make the safeguarding of Xi’s absolute leadership their utmost political task in a front-page article for the Communist Party newspaper Study Times. ‘Kind... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3186774/will-chinese-president-xi-jinping-be-given-formal-title-peoples?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3186774/will-chinese-president-xi-jinping-be-given-formal-title-peoples?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:30:20 +0000 Chinese President Xi Jinping said Xinjiang will be a main hub for connecting China to other nations as he made his first trip to the region since he ordered a hard strike on violence there which has become a source of friction with the United States. State media reported on Friday that Xi had visited the far western region on Tuesday and Wednesday, in his first public appearance since he was in Hong Kong to mark the city’s 25th anniversary of return to Chinese rule on July 1. It was also his... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3185358/chinas-president-xi-visits-xinjiang-first-time-eight-years?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3185358/chinas-president-xi-visits-xinjiang-first-time-eight-years?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Jul 2022 03:24:17 +0000 Senior officials in the Communist Party around the country are lavishing praise on President Xi Jinping in the final run-up of the 20th Party Congress, using words such as “beacon”, “compass” and “fulcrum” to refer to his status. The acclaim comes months before China’s important political event when Xi is expected to kick off his third term as the party’s leader, and the party is expected to see a new leadership line-up. Lou Yangsheng, party boss of Henan province, said on Wednesday Xi’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3183068/officials-vie-offer-fulsome-pledges-loyalty-chinese-president?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3183068/officials-vie-offer-fulsome-pledges-loyalty-chinese-president?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:00:28 +0000 Xinjiang’s former party chief Chen Quanguo has been given a new post on a rural affairs group – a role in which he is expected to play a leading role in cracking down on crime. Chen, one of the 25 Politburo members, is the most senior Chinese official on the US sanctions list. He was sanctioned in 2020 “in connection with serious rights abuses against ethnic minorities” in Xinjiang. Chen stepped down from his role in the far-western region six months ago and appeared in his new role as deputy... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3181820/sanctioned-hardline-former-xinjiang-chief-chen-quanguo-moves?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3181820/sanctioned-hardline-former-xinjiang-chief-chen-quanguo-moves?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:00:10 +0000 The Communist Party of China will undergo a major leadership shake-up at its party congress in the second half of 2022. In this series, the South China Morning Post looks at what the party’s next generation of leaders might look like. President Xi Jinping is expected to promote more technocrats to key positions in the Chinese Communist Party to spearhead his technological ambitions. Whether they can deliver his goals remains unclear, but analysts said their ascendancy will redefine the party’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3177955/why-chinese-leader-xi-jinping-wants-more-technocrats-key-roles?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3177955/why-chinese-leader-xi-jinping-wants-more-technocrats-key-roles?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 May 2022 01:00:10 +0000 The new party boss for China’s tech hub Shenzhen, Meng Fanli, made his first public appearance last month at Lianhuashan Park to honour the late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping for his pioneering market reforms. But Meng also made sure to be seen first and foremost as a loyalist to President Xi Jinping, who also visited Deng’s statue in the park two years ago to mark the 40th anniversary of the Shenzhen special economic zone. “We must consistently align our ideology, politics and actions with the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3176293/beijing-centralises-power-provinces-ahead-communist-party?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3176293/beijing-centralises-power-provinces-ahead-communist-party?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 May 2022 15:00:28 +0000 All ethnic groups in Xinjiang are living happily, according to a top Beijing official who hit out at “smears” and “slanders” ahead of May’s visit by the United Nations human rights chief. Wang Yang, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee who heads the party’s Xinjiang affairs leading group, became the most senior figure to visit the region since a leadership reshuffle in December. Beijing has denied that it is responsible for large-scale human rights abuses in the region, including the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3171596/senior-chinese-official-says-all-ethnic-groups-xinjiang-live?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3171596/senior-chinese-official-says-all-ethnic-groups-xinjiang-live?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:41:10 +0000 The starting orders came on Thursday from Urumqi, the capital of China’s far western region of Xinjiang. At that moment, legions of bulldozers, concrete mixers and excavators were powered up at work sites across more than a dozen cities. It marked the beginning of a plan to spend 1.75 trillion yuan (US$275 billion) in the region, 900 million yuan of it this year, the official Xinjiang Daily reported on Friday. In all, work got under way or resumed on 4,467 projects in the region – 27 with a... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3171158/feeling-secure-china-swings-development-mode-xinjiang?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3171158/feeling-secure-china-swings-development-mode-xinjiang?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 20 Mar 2022 10:00:16 +0000 Minority and religious leaders of Xinjiang should uphold ethnic unity and “guide religions to adapt to China’s socialist society”, the region’s new Communist Party chief has said. The call from Ma Xingrui – just four weeks into his new role – came as the far western Uygur autonomous region kicked off its annual gathering of local lawmakers and policy advisers, ahead of the national “two sessions” legislative meetings scheduled in March in Beijing. Addressing local ethnic minority and religious... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3164582/uphold-chinas-unity-and-socialist-society-xinjiang-communist?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3164582/uphold-chinas-unity-and-socialist-society-xinjiang-communist?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:05:18 +0000 Guangdong province, the southern Chinese economic powerhouse, has set a modest 5.5 per cent growth target for 2022 and pledged to speed up development of the Greater Bay Area – especially the Qianhai and Hengqin economic zones next door to Hong Kong and Macau. In his first work report to the Guangdong People’s Congress on Thursday, acting governor Wang Weizhong said the province would meet the economic target by accelerating development of core technologies and stimulating domestic... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3164057/chinas-powerhouse-guangdong-pins-modest-growth-target-rd?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3164057/chinas-powerhouse-guangdong-pins-modest-growth-target-rd?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Jan 2022 06:39:53 +0000 More than 2,000 sets of athlete uniforms manufactured in Xinjiang have been delivered to China’s team for the Winter Olympics, amid continuing tensions about the alleged use of forced labour in the region. The sets of winter clothing, which incorporate cotton and camel hair sourced from Xinjiang, were unveiled by Yaju Bedding Co Ltd, a textiles company based in Habahe County. Ski suits, gloves, hats, and ear protectors for athletes arrived on Wednesday, according to Beijing Daily, less than a... https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3162459/beijing-2022-2000-china-uniforms-made-xinjiang-delivered-olympic?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3162459/beijing-2022-2000-china-uniforms-made-xinjiang-delivered-olympic?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Jan 2022 03:15:20 +0000 Xinjiang’s new Communist Party secretary Ma Xingrui called for efforts to modernise the region’s supply chains and improve the international business environment, as he made his first tour of the capital, Urumqi, on Monday. His remarks came after US President Joe Biden last week signed into law a measure banning virtually all imports from Xinjiang over concerns about forced labour. The far western region has a key role in the global supply of polysilicon, which is used to make solar panels, and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3161310/xinjiangs-new-party-chief-calls-efforts-boost-supply-chains-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3161310/xinjiangs-new-party-chief-calls-efforts-boost-supply-chains-and?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Dec 2021 13:00:17 +0000 The Communist Party chief of Chinese tech hub Shenzhen has been promoted to acting governor of Guangdong, the province’s legislature announced on Monday. Wang Weizhong, 59, takes over from Ma Xingrui. Ma was named as the new party secretary of the far western Xinjiang region on Saturday, replacing Chen Quanguo, according to state media. Already an alternate member of the party’s policymaking Central Committee, the promotion is likely to pave the way for Wang to become a full member at next... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3161204/shenzhen-party-boss-takes-over-acting-governor-guangdong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3161204/shenzhen-party-boss-takes-over-acting-governor-guangdong?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Dec 2021 13:52:28 +0000 The new party chief of China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has pledged to maintain social stability and public order, indicating there will be little change to how the sensitive border region is run. Ma Xingrui vowed he would follow President Xi Jinping’s Xinjiang policy focusing on long-term stability and “economic development of a high quality” although he did not give specifics, Xinjiang Daily, the official newspaper of the region’s party committee, reported on Sunday. The 62-year-old... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3161191/new-xinjiang-party-chief-pledges-follow-president-xi-jinpings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3161191/new-xinjiang-party-chief-pledges-follow-president-xi-jinpings?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Dec 2021 13:00:23 +0000 Xinjiang’s Communist Party chief Chen Quanguo is to leave his post, state news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday. Chen has been targeted by foreign sanctions over the crackdown targeting the Uygurs and other Muslim minorities in the region that he spearheaded, prompting allegations of widespread human rights abuses from the United States and other Western countries. China says Xinjiang sanctions are an ‘industry genocide’ targeting businesses Beijing has defended its policies in the region,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3161048/xinjiang-party-boss-and-us-sanctions-target-chen-quanguo-leave?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3161048/xinjiang-party-boss-and-us-sanctions-target-chen-quanguo-leave?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 25 Dec 2021 09:02:24 +0000 Hong Kong officials need to establish new links with their counterparts in neighbouring Shenzhen as part of the Qianhai economic zone’s mammoth expansion, pro-establishment politicians have said, after Macau launched a new committee to co-develop a new cooperation zone with Guangdong’s leaders. Politicians and business leaders also said the city had been lagging behind, and accused senior officials of not being proactive enough on pushing cross-border collaboration. “From the central government... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3149200/hong-kong-risks-falling-behind-race-benefit-qianhai-plan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3149200/hong-kong-risks-falling-behind-race-benefit-qianhai-plan?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Sep 2021 13:00:23 +0000 The southern Chinese province of Guangdong reinforced its front lines against the coronavirus as the number of cases continued to climb over the weekend. In scorching temperatures, public health workers covered in protective equipment ramped up screening for the pathogen, setting up testing stations in several cities across the Pearl River Delta. The national vaccination effort also gained momentum with 100 million shots administered in the last five days alone, pushing the country past the 600... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3135402/southern-chinese-province-guangdong-high-gear-quash-coronavirus?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3135402/southern-chinese-province-guangdong-high-gear-quash-coronavirus?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 30 May 2021 13:25:04 +0000 Officials in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have ordered a swift and “scientific” investigation to address public fears about a swaying landmark skyscraper in Shenzhen. The orders come as tenants in the SEG Plaza worry about the future of their businesses and the building’s management scrambles to find alternative accommodation for clients. About 15,000 people fled the skyscraper in downtown Shenzhen on Tuesday when the floors began shaking. The shaking continued for two days and the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3134685/china-orders-prompt-probe-swaying-shenzhen-skyscraper?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3134685/china-orders-prompt-probe-swaying-shenzhen-skyscraper?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 May 2021 01:00:11 +0000