Breaking up the Shanghai Gang Next on Chinese Leader Xi Jinping’s Agenda

The skyline of the Lujiazui Financial District in Pudong, Shanghai on Dec. 1, 2015. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

For decades, Shanghai was in the hands of former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin.

Those officials who rose to power through ties with Jiang when he was Party boss of Shanghai became known as the “Shanghai gang.”