Li Xiaopeng, the son of former Chinese Premier Li Peng, was appointed as acting governor of north China’s Shanxi Province on Wednesday. The appointment was made at the 33rd meeting of the standing committee of the 11th Shanxi Provincial People’s Congress. The meeting also accepted the resignition of Wang Jun as governor of Shanxi, as […]
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying assumed office in July, after being maneuvered towards the city’s top political job by the Chinese central government. As details emerge that suggest Leung ran a less-than-honest election campaign, pro-democracy legislators are calling for his impeachment. His election victory in March came after former Beijing favorite Henry Tang was […]
Chinese writer Mo Yan was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature in Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden on Monday. The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony for 2012 started at 4.30 p.m. local time (1530 GMT) with the Swedish royal anthem “The King’s Song.” Mo Yan, dressed in black tailcoat, went slowly up to his seat […]
Chinese writer Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, described himself as a storyteller in a lecture at the Swedish Academy on Friday afternoon. It is telling stories that earned him the prize, the Nobel laureate said. In the lecture titled “Storytellers,” he talked about how he started story telling as a […]
Bishop Ding Guangxun, a senior leader of the Christian community in China, died of illness at 10 a.m. Thursday in Nanjing, capital city of east China’s Jiangsu Province. Ding, born in September 1915, had been president and honorary president of the China Christian Council and acted as vice chairman of the National Committee of the […]
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led the other newly-elected members of the Standing Committee of the 18th CPC Central Committee Political Bureau to meet the press Thursday morning at the Great Hall of the People. “I am very glad to meet friends from the news […]
The following is the biographical sketch of Zhang Gaoli: Zhang Gaoli, born in November 1946, is a male ethnic Han from Jinjiang, Fujian Province. He entered the workforce in August 1970 and joined the CPC in December 1973. He graduated from the Department of Economics at Xiamen University with a major in planning and statistics. […]
The following is the biographical sketch of Wang Qishan: Wang Qishan, born in July 1948, is a male ethnic Han from Tianzhen, Shanxi Province. He entered workforce in January 1969 and joined the CPC in February 1983. He graduated from the University Regular Class at the Department of History at Northwest University, China, with a […]
The following is the biographical sketch of Liu Yunshan: Liu Yunshan, born in July 1947, is a male ethnic Han from Xinzhou, Shanxi Province. He entered the workforce in September 1966 and joined the CPC in April 1971. He received a university education at the Central Party School. He is currently a member of the […]
The following is the biographical sketch of Yu Zhengsheng: Yu Zhengsheng, born in April 1945, is a male ethnic Han from Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. He entered the workforce in August 1963 and joined the CPC in November 1964. He graduated from the Department of Missile Engineering at the Harbin Military Engineering Institute with a major […]