Wang Yang

New Party Leadership Moves in on Strongholds of Old Faction

January 8, 2013, 11:27 am

The new Chinese Communist Party head and former leader have been hard at work reshuffling key officials to curtail a rival faction.

Seeing Clearly the Leadership Change in Beijing

November 27, 2012, 10:12 pm

Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin each had their reasons for keeping their positions in the CMC when they were otherwise retired.

New Leadership in Beijing Spells End of Reform

November 15, 2012, 4:16 pm

The new lineup of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee signals an end to the hope of saving the Party through reform. It also puts outgoing Party [...]

New Members of Chinese Communist Standing Committee Decided, Source Says

August 31, 2012, 2:15 pm

An insider provides a lineup of the suspected new politburo members and their duties.

Alleged Chinese-American Mobster Arrested in Southern China

June 28, 2012, 5:25 pm

Police, in China’s Guangdong Province, arrest a prominent Chinese-American business owner, Hu Weisheng, from Los Angeles.

Hundreds of Guangdong Officials to be Interrogated

June 21, 2012, 12:10 pm

Hundreds of current and former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials were taken into custody in the southern province of Guangdong and will be put through an opaque [...]

In Sign of Political Thaw, Guangdong Allows Union Elections

May 31, 2012, 6:34 pm

Shenzhen in southern China will be the first to promote elections for trade unions—an apparent shift in regime policy toward independent unions.

Chinese Media Reveals Part of China’s Forbidden History

May 25, 2012, 7:51 pm

An estimated 45 million Chinese starved to death nationwide between 1958 and 1962 as a result of Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” policies.

Guangdong Reformist Wang Yang May Have His Day in the Sun

May 23, 2012, 2:10 pm

Wang Yang, one of the most prominent figures in the reformist faction of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), will continue his political endeavors in Guangdong Province after [...]

Reformist Crosses Swords With Hard-Liners in China’s South

May 20, 2012, 10:46 pm

In the bustling southern province of Guangdong, Party Secretary Wang Yang is making a name for himself as an apparent reformer open to new ways of doing things.