Brother of Jailed Former Hu Aide Charged Over Graft
Ling Zhengce, the former vice-chairman of the Shanxi People’s Political Consultative...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 18, 2016
Ling Zhengce, the former vice-chairman of the Shanxi People’s Political Consultative...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 20, 2015
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 28, 2014
For the New York Times, Ian Johnson looks at the impact Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 20, 2014
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Josh Rudolph | Mar 13, 2014
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 8, 2013
Xinhua reports that police are holding a man in connection with Wednesday’s explosions...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 7, 2013
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Scott Greene | Oct 14, 2013
China on Monday said it would offer financial rewards for reducing air pollution in six regions,...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 4, 2013
The now deceased aunt of Guo Bin, the 6-year-old boy found with his eyes gouged out in Shanxi...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 28, 2013
The Global Times reports on a reward offered for information about the 6-year-old boy whose eyes...
by Cindy | Aug 23, 2013
At China Dialogue, Luna Lin writes that the Shanxi government’s attempt to use tax cuts to...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 8, 2013
State-owned conglomerate and Fortune 500 company China Resources is under investigation after state media journalist Wang Wenzhi accused senior executives of corruption and wrongdoing last month from his Sina Weibo account....
by Scott Greene | Mar 28, 2013
For Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson writes that several recent studies have firmed up the link between pollution and birth defects in China and beyond: Tong Zhu, now a Princeton Global Scholar, together with research...
by Melissa M. Chan | Feb 17, 2013
Chinese state media reports that a dam in Shanxi has collapsed causing the shutdown of a highway. This comes amid criticism of the Shanxi government’s cover up of a water contamination incident due to an industrial aniline...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 11, 2013
Seawater desalination may offer a promising supplement to diversion of freshwater to China’s dry north-east, especially as severe droughts in the south place the latter’s basic logic in question. Critics argue,...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 20, 2013
The New York Times’ Edward Wong connects several of the year’s major stories so far, including the Southern Weekly anti-censorship protests and cases of severe air and water pollution in Beijing and elsewhere. Each...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 14, 2013
An aniline spill in Shanxi on New Year’s Eve caused extended disruption of water supplies in the downstream Hebei city of Handan earlier this month. Public anger at the authorities’ five-day cover-up then led to four...
by Melissa M. Chan | Jan 6, 2013
Chinese state media reports contamination of a north Chinese river has led the water supply in Handan to be cut off, from Xinhua: A statement by the city government said the cut-off was caused by an accident in the neighboring...