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Latest news, analysis and opinion on the Communist Party of China which has ruled the country since 1949 and is currently led by General Secretary Xi Jinping. The party currently has over 90 million members and it began to admit private entrepreneurs into its ranks in 2001.
State Council institutions must follow new line that aims to improve efficiency, deliver growth and ensure technological transformation.
‘New quality productive forces’, with its focus on science and technology, is seen as the answer to China’s economic woes, with the potential to transform society. However, outside the establishment, there is confusion and scepticism surrounding the puzzling catchphrase.
The concept of ‘new productive forces’ shows that China’s top leadership has realised that the traditional model of relying on debt-fuelled investment to drive growth has reached its limit.
The Ministry of State Security kept a secretive presence for years, but now it is on social media and creating a more high-profile public image. It has every reason to expand its public reach, but it must be more mindful of the potential impact of its daily musings on political and economic matters.
China’s Communist Party leaders set the tone for national parliamentary sessions in March and stress need for wider focus.
- Programme on state television discloses new details and punishments from espionage cases as part of a campaign marking National Security Education Day
- State security ministry releases details of researcher Huang Yu, who was executed for selling ‘core secrets’ to an unnamed foreign intelligence agency
Cai Qi, China’s No 5 official, holds rare meeting with influential American businessman John Thornton, who was granted unprecedented access to the country during Covid-19 era.
Hu Binchen, director of International Cooperation Bureau, and Liu Zhongyi, director of Criminal Investigation Bureau, appointed assistant ministers at China’s Ministry of Public Security.
Bipartisan group supports addressing ‘strategic disadvantage’ and understanding adversaries who pose ‘serious threat to American national security’.
Yan Pengcheng has been confirmed as one of He’s deputies at the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission, a key party body.
A ‘basic system of professional community workers’ must be built within five years, Communist Party and State Council say in joint notice, as Beijing continues drive to strengthen central control.
New rules are emerging around use of government vehicles, resource use, unauthorised office printing and bottled water in a push to showcase austerity.
China will inspect vital finance and economy-related entities as part of a round of discipline inspections amid Beijing’s focus on a financial revamp.
CCDI slams officials for blind quotas forcing towns, districts to inflate business figures to meet unrealistic targets.
Local governments prohibit sale and production of joss paper, spirit money and other offerings used in ancestor worship during Tomb-Sweeping Day, sparking online debate and drawing rare dissent from state media over ‘crude and heavy-handed’ measures.
The Central Financial Commission, China’s major party organ overseeing the financial industry, has put forward its plan for the future orientation of the sector – and the reform necessary for it to get there.
China – second only to the US in terms of aggregated processing power – sets 2025 deadline to scale up capacity by half.
Tang ‘suspected of serious violations of discipline and law’, anti-graft watchdog says
Xinhua’s conciliatory editorial line is in sharp contrast to its accusation just weeks earlier that the US had a ‘friend or foe’ mindset that would lead nowhere.
The subsidised cafeterias are part of Beijing’s ambitious community welfare plan, but they have failed to attract as many elderly diners as hoped.
Promotion could give Wang Renhua and the CMC Political and Legal Affairs Commission, which he heads, more power, observer says.
Peking University academic Wang Jisi argues in article for think tank that US has not ‘paid enough notice’ to the implications of China’s ideological shift.
People familiar with the matter say Cai Qi has been appointed to head the Communist Party’s Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission.
Head of country’s legislature says region should resist ‘bloc confrontation’, calls for unity and independence amid ‘serious challenges’.
That expansion shows how short video and live-streaming campaigns have boosted online retail sales on the mainland.
Beijing says overseas consultancies have tried to steal classified state and commercial information, posing ‘major risks to national security’.
Long tied to Beijing for tourism and gambling income, Northern Mariana Islands needs more aid from Washington, says governor.
Asia should guard against being ‘testing grounds for parallel systems’, says Liu Jianchao, who is tipped to be China’s next foreign minister.
Former chairman of the Chinese Football Association Chen Xuyuan given life sentence for bribery while other administrators are jailed for up to 14 years.
House Speaker Mike Johnson chooses Representative John Moolenaar, Republican of Michigan, to head committee after its chair, Mike Gallagher, announces he will leave Congress on April 19.
Tendency intensified in line with closeness to top officials in Beijing, study by US-based researchers finds.
More direct supervision of county-level cases by higher bodies needed to check ‘circle of acquaintances’ effect, article in CCDI magazine by case supervision office says.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approves legislation to add oversight for the periodic renewal of the landmark Science and Technology Agreement.
The two officials have ties to state-run resort alleged to owe millions in back payments to construction firm owner who was arrested for ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ after refusing settlement offer.
