China's Politburo Standing Committee And Their Paths To Power ...

Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, a member of the highest-ranking Politburo Standing Committee, warned that failure to extend reforms would consign the economy to years of low-quality growth. "There are increasing downward economic pressures and the problem ...

Defence and foreign policy are both guided by the party's inner circle, the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, rather than by their respective ministers. World Bulletin/News Desk China formally appointed its two new top diplomats and defence ...

Engineers used to dominate Chinese policymaking. But the Communist Party's highest organ, the seven-member standing committee of the Politburo, now includes three economists, for better or worse, including Li Keqiang, the prime minister. On April ...

(Reuters) - Nepoch Capital, a new private equity firm founded by the son of a former member of China's politburo, has launched the first 'princeling' fundraising since the new government took power last month vowing to clamp down on cronyism and ...

President Xi Jinping waters trees with a member of the Young Pioneers. Ju Peng/XinhuaPremier Li Keqiang helps a young girl water a tree. Yao Dawei/XinhuaZhang Dejiang, No. 3 on the Politburo Standing Committee, gets into the act. Rao Aimin/XinhuaYu ...

The three new leaders of Korea, China and Japan are all scions of families with political heft in the past. In modern history, this is the first time leaders of the three Northeast Asian nations share such a common background. Their rivalry, which ...

China's new leader has been quick to consolidate his power. What does he now want for his country? THESE have been heady days for Chen Sisi, star of a song-and-dance group run by China's nuclear-missile corps. For weeks her ballad "Chinese dream" ...

When the National People's Congress met this month and named Xi Jinping China's President (and thereby completed conferral of the triple crown worn by top Chinese leaders: state President, Communist Party General Secretary and Central Military ...

Even by the standards of China's rough and tumble breed of entrepreneurs, billionaire Liu Han's brushes with death mark him out. After dodging a hitman's bullets in 1997, which led to the execution of a rival tycoon and two of his relatives almost a ...