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9 September, 2024
It is a Lunar New Year tradition among Chinese to give out “red packets”, or red paper envelopes containing money. Digital red packets became a popular way for people to send blessings after WeChat launched the function in 2014. Photo: Shutterstock
China’s Communist Party

No ‘red packets’ online for Lunar New Year, China’s Communist Party warns cadres

Exchange of digital presents that may influence official work to be seen as violating ‘red lines’ in party discipline, personnel office says.

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Accidents and disasters in China

China hands out punishments over deadly May Day highway collapse

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From our archives

When China put a journalist under house arrest in retaliation for jailings

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As China’s think tanks seek wider influence, is more autonomy the answer?

2,000 intellectual groups now advise Beijing, but experts say they are producing fewer ‘constructive comments’ to influence decision makers.

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China’s Communist Party

Foreign spies recruiting Chinese by phone, social media, security ministry warns

Ministry of State Security advises vigilance after citizens duped by agents posing as recruiters, lovers to steal secrets.

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China risks catastrophic errors if anti-corruption crackdown eases: Xi Jinping

More tenacity needed in fighting the biggest threat to the Communist Party, Xi tells disciplinary body.

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Play up economic success, China’s ideology tsar Cai Qi tells propaganda chiefs

Instructions follow the silencing online of some economic critics questioning the national outlook.

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China’s propaganda officials have been instructed to push a positive message about the economy. Photo: AFP
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China’s civil servants to get long-delayed pay rise, but will it boost economy?

Public sector workers expect salary increase ahead of Lunar New Year, but some warn impact could be limited after years of belt-tightening.

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China’s Communist Party

Chinese officials urged not to ignore public opinion

Cadres warned to pay attention to complaints from members of the public to avoid more serious problems later on.

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Law

Zhengzhou the first city in China to ban cellphone use in schools

Legislature imposes ban at all primary, secondary and secondary vocational schools in the Henan capital.

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The education ministry in 2021 issued a directive stating that phones were “in principle” forbidden on school campuses, but Zhengzhou is the first local legislature to impose a ban. Photo: Xinhua
China's economic recovery

Cutthroat competition puts China ‘sectors in distress’, economic official warns

The worsening problem of ‘involution’, or neijuan, is forcing Beijing to ramp up rhetoric to overcome a major obstacle to China’s economic growth.

Employees work on an electric-truck assembly line in China’s Jiangsu province. The nation’s EV sector is facing problems from “involution”. Photo: AFP
China’s Communist Party

China’s Xi calls on Politburo to lead by example in anti-corruption fight

Fight ‘all forms of misconduct and corruption’ and keep an eye on both ‘family members and staff’, Xi is quoted as telling annual meeting.

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China’s Communist Party

China’s Communist Party finds room for younger faces on promotions ladder

A number of ‘post-70s’ officials born between 1970 and 1979 have achieved full ministerial rank this year.

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2 more Chinese generals fall in anti-corruption campaign in military

NPC Standing Committee announces Lieutenant General You Haitao and Vice-Admiral Li Pengcheng removed from China’s top legislature.

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Lieutenant General You Haitao is one of two senior Chinese military officials announced by the NPC as suspected of “serious violation of laws and discipline”. Photo: Weibo/清華國防
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Will corruption probe into ideology top brass Miao Hua affect China’s military?

As the head of PLA ideology comes under a cloud, the president once again stresses military loyalty to the Communist Party.

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Miao Hua has been suspended from duty and is under investigation for “suspected serious disciplinary violations”, usually a euphemism for corruption. Photo: Handout
China’s Communist Party

China needs incentives to power a lean, grass-roots official machine, leaders say

The economy is stalling as cadres lack the drive to take risks, annual conference told.

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China's economic recovery

China ramps up economy-boosting rhetoric ahead of critical conference

At this ‘critical stage of transformation’, with outsized challenges mounting, adherence and commitment to policy choices is said to be as important as ever.

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Chinese cities fight lying flat mentality with ‘snail awards’ for poor workers

‘In China, if you do something wrong, the consequences are rather high, so the officials would rather stay inactive,’ scholar says.

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Some Chinese cities are tackling poor performance by cadres by calling them out. President Xi Jinping has repeatedly urged the “lying flat” phenomenon to be eliminated for China to prosper. Photo: AFP
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China investigates head of Shanghai’s free-trade zone for corruption

Zhu Zhisong, Communist Party chief of Pudong New Area, is among a number of aerospace veterans under a cloud.

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China’s Communist Party

How Xi Jinping is going back to Confucius to define China’s future

Xi’s plan to glorify China’s deep cultural roots is embodied in Ruzang, a compilation of the philosopher’s writings and related works.

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Xi Jinping

Xi urges China’s provinces to be patient and fair in push for economic reforms

The Chinese leader also urged provincial leaders to remove the country’s internal barriers to create a national market.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses the study session on October 29 for principal officials at provincial and ministerial level on implementing the guiding principles of the third plenum. Photo: Xinhua
China's economic recovery

‘Extremely brutal’: are China’s private firms paying the price for official debt?

Recent trials have compounded concerns about unduly harsh legal action targeting businesses in other regions to ease the local debt situation.

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Local authorities increasingly tend to treat civil fraud as criminal fraud, a much more serious offence, to “extract money”, according to one legal expert. Photo: AP
Corruption in China

Former China Geological Survey head charged with bribery, leaking state secrets

Zhong Ziran, 62, is the most senior natural resources official to have faced a corruption investigation in recent months.

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‘Confident’ China should relax grip on cultural, information exchange: academic

Too many Chinese scholars fail to properly engage with their overseas peers, leading to worsening decoupling, professor warns.

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China throws the book: more corruption suspects hit with illicit reading claims

Growing number of disgraced officials being accused by anti-corruption agencies of reading forbidden books, cited as disloyalty to the party.

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Allegations of reading politically forbidden books have appeared in at least a dozen corruption case readouts this year in China. Photo: Shutterstock
China’s Communist Party

Why do so many Chinese officials fall for fake promises of political charlatans?

Party insiders who should know better are being targeted by tricksters claiming connections and influence, despite crackdowns.

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China economy

Editorial | Despite challenges, Xi makes it clear China is moving forward

President’s National Day address covers wide range of issues, with the most important message to the country being this: remain confident.

China’s Communist Party

‘Get things done’: China tries to rally risk-averse officials to revive economy

Leadership’s references to ‘three exempts’ policy a clear sign that economic growth is the top priority, analysts say.

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