Media Watchdog Eyes Salary Cap for TV Stars
China’s TV stars may soon be facing a salary cap imposed by the country’s state media...
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Shanghai’s Top Earners: Young Party Members
According to a recent study conducted in the Shanghai municipality by Fudan University, members of...
Does Xi Jinping Make 1/20th of Obama’s Salary?
At Foreign Policy, Rachel Lu speculates about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s income and...
Netizen Voices: Financial Disclosure and Selective Integration
After calling for the public disclosure of officials’ assets last spring, New Citizens’ Movement founder Xu Zhiyong was handed four years in prison for “gathering crowds to disturb public order” in January, and two of his...
“123456” Password Leads to Leak of Official Salaries
A Hunan city government’s use of the world’s most common password allowed public...
Trickle-Down Economics for Chinese Officials
The acceptance of a 36% pay cut by the world’s highest paid politician, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, has renewed attention to the wide disparity between world leaders’ salaries. Hu Jintao sits near the...
China Doctors Earning $300 a Month Flock to Drug Companies
While China faces a shortage of doctors, many newly qualified physicians are abandoning the profession in favour of more lucrative careers in pharmaceutical sales. From Bloomberg: Mao [Mengjia], 26, tripled his income after...
China Orders Pay Cuts for Bosses
Top Chinese executives have been told to cut their salaries. From BBC: Executives of state-owned banks and insurers in China have been told to cut their salaries to ease the disparity between themselves and Chinese workers. A...
Ｍore Than 700 Teachers in Guangdong Demonstrate for a Decent Salary
Seven hundred teachers in Yunfu City of Guangdong province went to demonstrate on the street on March 4 to protest their low salaries, according to reports on several Chinese Internet forums. Various reports say the teachers...
China Drafts Code to Regulate Salaries
From Xinhua: The Ministry of Labor and Social Security is working on a draft regulation to encourage employers to implement salary rises, a move that is being seen as a way to lessen the effects of rising inflation. The regulation is designed to help develop a mechanism to facilitate a healthy and rational increase of […]
A Minister’s Salary, 8,000 Yuan a Month?
Chen Zhili (ÈôàËá≥Á´ã), a member of China’s State Council (ÂõΩÂä°ÂßîÂëò), said at the CPPCC that her monthly compensation, including salary and all stipends, is 10,000 yuan ($1,250), reports Singtaonet. Minister of Science and Technology, Xu Guanhua (ÂæêÂ܆Âçé), also exposed that his monthly compensation is 8,000 yuan ($1,000). China’s leaders rarely reveal their incomes. A few […]
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