https://www.scmp.com/rss/518011/feed The latest news on Chinese politician and aerospace engineer Yuan Jiajun, including political stories and updates. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Alcott Wei Alcott Wei The number of members from China’s leading scientific and engineering institutes in the top ranks of the Communist Party has doubled over the course of a decade, according to a new report. It said the number of academicians in the party’s 18th Central Committee, selected in 2012, stood at 15, accounting for around 3.5 per cent of the total membership. But when the 20th Central Committee started its five-year term in 2022, this total had risen to 30, around 8 per cent of the total, including... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3350757/why-leading-chinese-scientists-are-rising-top-communist-party?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3350757/why-leading-chinese-scientists-are-rising-top-communist-party?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:00:07 +0000 Zoey Zhang Zoey Zhang A Chinese influencer helped a girl who claimed to be raising her sisters alone in a remote village, only to later discover that some of her hardships were exaggerated. Super Btai, whose real name is Chen Jiajun, is famed for exposing scams and supporting vulnerable communities. He has more than 25 million followers on mainland social media. Earlier this year, Chen met 18-year-old Aji in the mountainous province of Guizhou, in southwestern China. Aji told him she was raising two younger sisters... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3350194/china-influencer-builds-house-girl-who-claims-be-raising-sisters-alone-amid-family-drama?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3350194/china-influencer-builds-house-girl-who-claims-be-raising-sisters-alone-amid-family-drama?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:00:09 +0000 Shi Huang Shi Huang For mathematical genius Wan Daqing, life is no longer a competition between China and the United States. Instead, he has encountered the rivalry of universities within China seeking to appoint him. Wan, winner of China’s highest mathematics prize, retired from the University of California at Irvine (UCI) in July and returned to China to take up his new role in December, he confirmed in an email to the South China Morning Post. The International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) Medal is... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3345925/chinas-award-winning-mathematician-wan-daqing-leaves-california-chongqing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3345925/chinas-award-winning-mathematician-wan-daqing-leaves-california-chongqing?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:29:09 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Alibaba Group Holding CEO Eddie Wu Yongming met Chongqing party secretary and Politburo member Yuan Jiajun on Tuesday to discuss potential collaborations in artificial intelligence (AI), as the Chinese technology giant’s AI capabilities gain increasing recognition. In a meeting in Chongqing, Yuan said the southwestern metropolis and Alibaba “have new major opportunities for cooperation”, according to local official media. He expressed hopes that the two parties could work together to achieve... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3300176/alibaba-ceo-wu-meets-chongqing-party-secretary-possible-ai-partnerships?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3300176/alibaba-ceo-wu-meets-chongqing-party-secretary-possible-ai-partnerships?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Feb 2025 06:04:16 +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 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 Chinese President Xi Jinping has hailed the second world war American general Joseph Stilwell as an “old friend” of the nation in a letter to his grandson, according to state news agency Xinhua. Xi also called for more exchanges between the people of China and the United States in the letter, the report on Thursday said. “General Stilwell is an old friend of the Chinese people, who provided active support for China’s liberation and progress, and made positive contributions to the friendly... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3232968/xi-jinping-hails-wwii-general-joseph-stilwell-old-friend-china-letter?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3232968/xi-jinping-hails-wwii-general-joseph-stilwell-old-friend-china-letter?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 31 Aug 2023 10:01:41 +0000 China has rolled out the red carpet for the descendants of a second world war American general, commemorating the late officer as Beijing turns to informal personal contacts to improve ties between the two countries. Yuan Jiajun, the Communist Party chief of Chongqing, met members of the family of Joseph Stilwell in the southwestern city on Wednesday. The group included Susan Cole and Nancy Millward, the great-granddaughters of the general who was based in the city during the war and worked... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3230674/china-salutes-wwii-american-general-joe-stilwell-personal-push-improve-us-ties?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3230674/china-salutes-wwii-american-general-joe-stilwell-personal-push-improve-us-ties?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Aug 2023 13:00:29 +0000 Europe’s second-largest chip maker has entered a Chinese multibillion-dollar joint venture. STMicroelectronics will jointly invest with China’s Sanan Optoelectronics to build a US$3.2 billion chip plant in the southwestern mega-city of Chongqing. The new venture will even dwarf the US$2 billion Shanghai plant committed by American electric vehicle mogul Elon Musk back in 2019. It aims to support the country’s rising domestic demand for silicon carbide (SiC) devices in electric vehicles as well... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3223720/china-swiss-chip-deal-poke-eye-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3223720/china-swiss-chip-deal-poke-eye-us?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Jun 2023 22:30:12 +0000 Hong Kong media should ensure their coverage does not include false, biased, defamatory and misleading information, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu has warned after a Chinese-language newspaper stopped running cartoons by controversial artist Zunzi. Lee on Friday also defended a decision by public libraries to remove books by the cartoonist from their shelves the same day Zunzi was dropped by Ming Pao. He said departments would from time to time review whether publications had “negative impacts... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3220389/hong-kong-leader-john-lee-says-media-coverage-should-avoid-false-biased-defamatory-or-misleading?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3220389/hong-kong-leader-john-lee-says-media-coverage-should-avoid-false-biased-defamatory-or-misleading?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 May 2023 11:28:39 +0000 Hong Kong and the megacity of Chongqing in mainland China’s southwest will pursue closer collaboration in 11 areas covering economics, finance, technology, arts and travel under a new cooperation conference. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu reached a consensus with Chongqing party secretary Yuan Jiajun on the second day of his visit to the megacity, when the two leaders held the first meeting of the conference on Thursday. Both sides agreed to pursue deeper cooperation to serve the country’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3220225/hi-tech-tour-hong-kong-leader-john-lee-during-chongqing-visit-prompts-call-more-cooperation-research?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3220225/hi-tech-tour-hong-kong-leader-john-lee-during-chongqing-visit-prompts-call-more-cooperation-research?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 May 2023 11:54:12 +0000 British trade minister Dominic Johnson’s visit shows that Hong Kong values international collaboration and relies on it as a bedrock for success, the city leader has said while also criticising “certain countries” that act to “serve their own political interests”. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu on Tuesday said he welcomed foreign officials to the city, including Johnson, the first senior British bureaucrat to visit Hong Kong in five years, as long as they were in town to foster business, trade... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3219909/uk-official-dominic-johnsons-visit-shows-hong-kong-values-cooperation-john-lee-says-warns-certain?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3219909/uk-official-dominic-johnsons-visit-shows-hong-kong-values-cooperation-john-lee-says-warns-certain?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 May 2023 06:54:54 +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 Taiwan’s top cross-strait policy planner has slammed as “belittling” and “contrary to the fact” comments from ex-president Ma Ying-jeou that both the island and the mainland belonged to China. Ma’s office dismissed the accusations as “groundless” and warned against creating a “two-China dispute”. The comments came after Ma, who is touring the mainland in a personal capacity, gave a talk at a central Chinese university in which he defined the status of both Taiwan and the mainland as part of... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3215874/taiwans-cross-strait-council-slams-former-president-ma-ying-jeou-over-belittling-one-china-comments?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3215874/taiwans-cross-strait-council-slams-former-president-ma-ying-jeou-over-belittling-one-china-comments?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Apr 2023 12:45:15 +0000 Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding and authorities in the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing have pledged deeper collaboration in areas such as connected cars and digital infrastructure, days after the Hangzhou-based company forged a new cooperation agreement with regulators in its eastern home city. Chongqing Communist Party Secretary Yuan Jiajun and mayor Hu Henghua on Thursday called on Alibaba to “strengthen” its operations in the city, while praising the firm for its... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3213912/alibaba-forges-cooperation-chongqing-connected-cars-digital-infrastructure-e-commerce-giant-bolsters?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3213912/alibaba-forges-cooperation-chongqing-connected-cars-digital-infrastructure-e-commerce-giant-bolsters?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Mar 2023 10:30:20 +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 Despite a flurry of recent promises from Beijing, entrepreneurs have been left guessing about how much support the private sector can actually count on – and whether the government will go so far as to address long-running concerns about unfair competition with state firms. China’s top leaders devoted large parts of their central economic work conference readout earlier this month to pledge “unwavering support” for the private economy, which accounts for more than 80 per cent of urban jobs and... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3204688/chinas-wary-private-sector-takes-wait-and-see-attitude-after-beijing-pledges-unwavering-support?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3204688/chinas-wary-private-sector-takes-wait-and-see-attitude-after-beijing-pledges-unwavering-support?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Dec 2022 01:00:15 +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 China’s Communist Party has appointed a public health expert to take up its top municipal job in Beijing, just as the world’s second-biggest economy starts to ease Covid restrictions in place for more than two years. Yin Li, 60, one of the 24 members of the Politburo, was previously party secretary of Fujian province and has been replaced by Zhou Zuyi, a 57-year-old geophysicist, according to state news agency Xinhua. The appointments announced on Sunday reflect a shift towards technocrats in... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3199466/chinas-communist-party-names-health-expert-yin-li-top-beijing-job?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3199466/chinas-communist-party-names-health-expert-yin-li-top-beijing-job?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 13 Nov 2022 12:01:11 +0000 As the World Internet Conference (WIC) prepares to wrap up on Friday, a new trend has emerged for China’s premiere political technology event that puts more focus on business-to-business use cases as consumer sentiment remains weak in a slowing economy and Covid-19 controls keep high-profile foreign executives away. While a few US-based executives made virtual appearances this year at a low point in relations between the two countries, many of the biggest names in China’s tech industry did not... https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3199162/quieter-world-internet-conference-year-kept-big-tech-executives-away-amid-shift-away-consumer?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3199162/quieter-world-internet-conference-year-kept-big-tech-executives-away-amid-shift-away-consumer?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:00:13 +0000 Top executives from e-commerce giants Alibaba Group Holding and JD.com have pledged support for the integration of China’s digital and real economies, after President Xi Jinping emphasised the importance of this goal at the 20th Party Congress. “The integrated development of the digital economy and the real economy will surely become a strong driving force for national economic growth and social progress,” said Daniel Zhang Yong, chairman and chief executive of Alibaba, at the World Internet... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3199034/top-executives-alibaba-and-jd-pledge-support-integration-digital-and-real-economies-world-internet?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3199034/top-executives-alibaba-and-jd-pledge-support-integration-digital-and-real-economies-world-internet?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:38:28 +0000 Following days of market turmoil, all eyes are on the appointment of China’s top economic aides, who will be responsible for guiding the country through coming economic storms and continuing Xi Jinping’s grand modernisation strategy. While Li Qiang, now China’s No 2 in the party hierarchy, will take the premiership in March, the naming of senior government roles might have already begun, enabling appointees to get to grips with economic challenges, plan policy priorities and ensure a seamless... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3197405/chinas-top-legislature-deliberates-new-nominations-leadership-reshuffle-stokes-market-turmoil?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3197405/chinas-top-legislature-deliberates-new-nominations-leadership-reshuffle-stokes-market-turmoil?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 Oct 2022 06:00:13 +0000 Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping promoted four rising stars – Li Qiang, Li Xi, Ding Xuexiang and Cai Qi – to the country’s highest decision-making body, laying the foundation for his record-breaking third term and beyond. Together with veterans Wang Huning and Zhao Leji, the seven will form the new Politburo Standing Committee. The combination of experienced and fresh faces will support the president and his policies for the next five years, a period Xi described as of “unparalleled... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3196967/chinese-president-xi-jinping-looks-fresh-faces-confront-new-term-unparalleled-complexity?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3196967/chinese-president-xi-jinping-looks-fresh-faces-confront-new-term-unparalleled-complexity?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:08:00 +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 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 Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to safeguard supply chain security, in a sign of Beijing’s growing concerns over China’s role in the global economy, as the US moves to isolate the world’s second-largest economy from hi-tech sectors such as semiconductors. The “stability and resilience” of the global supply chain is vital for the world economy, Xi wrote in a congratulatory letter to the International Forum on Resilient and Stable Industrial and Supply Chains on Monday. The event in... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3193144/tech-war-xi-jinping-vows-protect-global-supply-chain-us-tensions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3193144/tech-war-xi-jinping-vows-protect-global-supply-chain-us-tensions?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 Sep 2022 13:30:09 +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 This is the final part of a series on China’s new push for “common prosperity”. Here, Jane Cai looks at the impact on the country’s wealthy. With wealth inequality worsening amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s rich are under pressure to show their generosity. Most famously, Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos were called out by the UN World Food Programme’s director David Beasley, who said rich people like them should donate a fraction of their wealth to... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3155367/chinas-path-common-prosperity-puts-pressure-private-enterprise?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3155367/chinas-path-common-prosperity-puts-pressure-private-enterprise?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:19 +0000 This is the first in a series on the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party. Here, we look into leadership succession and possible changes at the 20th party congress next year. When China’s leader Xi Jinping takes the podium next week to mark the Communist Party’s centenary, expect an air of invincibility. He has plenty to be pleased about – in less than a decade, he has reinvigorated a party plagued by corruption and internal strife. When Xi took power in 2012, there were concerns that the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3138653/communist-party-turns-100-xi-jinping-has-problem-who-will-take?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3138653/communist-party-turns-100-xi-jinping-has-problem-who-will-take?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Jun 2021 23:00:25 +0000 The Communist Party leadership in China’s eastern coastal province of Zhejiang, home to Alibaba Group Holding, has pledged to “supervise and guide” the e-commerce giant and its fintech affiliate Ant Group to complete “rectification” after months of scrutiny by the central government.  The Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Communist Party held a special meeting this week to declare their intention to implement Beijing’s order to tame the “platform economy”, an umbrella term that encompasses most... https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3129684/china-antitrust-alibabas-home-province-vows-supervise-and-guide-e?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3129684/china-antitrust-alibabas-home-province-vows-supervise-and-guide-e?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:00:08 +0000 The Communist Party leadership of Zhejiang province, the home base of Alibaba Group Holding, has pledged to use Beijing’s antitrust probe as a chance to usher the platform economy and internet finance into a new stage of development, promising better development of the internet economy. The Zhejiang Communist Party held a special meeting on Monday to discuss how to implement the central Chinese leadership’s order to break up monopolies and tame capital expansion while “promoting healthy and... https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3115591/alibaba-antitrust-probe-home-province-vows-bring-platform-economy-new?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3115591/alibaba-antitrust-probe-home-province-vows-bring-platform-economy-new?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 28 Dec 2020 15:49:51 +0000 Daniel Zhang Yong, CEO of Alibaba Group Holding, affirmed the e-commerce giant’s commitment to “regulated development” at a Zhejiang provincial party committee conference on local economies on Friday. As a platform company, Alibaba should put forward “higher requirements” for itself and contribute to the development of society and economy, according to state-run China National Radio. “Alibaba is a participant and beneficiary of the development of the internet industry [in China] and we are... https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3115399/alibaba-antitrust-probe-ceo-affirms-commitment-regulated-development?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3115399/alibaba-antitrust-probe-ceo-affirms-commitment-regulated-development?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 26 Dec 2020 04:52:48 +0000