Tag: Liang Shuxin

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Liang Shuxin (梁树新): Independent Candidate Disqualified from Preliminary Round

In the past two months, over 100 independent candidates announced their candidacy for seats at the local-level People’s Congress and have used micro-blogging and social media sites to gain support. Li Chengpeng, for instance, was one of the best-known as well as the most active in cyberspace. However, due to a swift and determined government clampdown on this movement, two months later, only a few