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Corruption Crackdown Hangs Over China’s Two Sessions

As the annual “Two Sessions” of China’s National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference got underway this week, and premier Li Keqiang reiterated his pledge to fight corruption “without mercy,” Bloomberg News’ Henry Sanderson and Rachel Butt noted a number of absences, including that of Nanjing’s “Mayor Bulldozer” Ji Jianye: Ji, 57, is one of at least 11