{"id":163569,"date":"2013-10-03T09:05:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T16:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=163569"},"modified":"2021-09-14T21:47:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:47:47","slug":"zhou-yongkang-appears-amid-apeculation-graft-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/10\/zhou-yongkang-appears-amid-apeculation-graft-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhou Yongkang Appears Amid Speculation of Graft Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former security chief Zhou Yongkang, whose associates are at the center of a <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/09\/powerful-oil-clique-center-probes\/\">recent\u00a0series of anti-corruption investigations into China&#8217;s oil industry<\/a>,\u00a0made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/1322468\/zhou-yongkang-re-emerges-public-raising-questions-about-graft-probe\"><strong>a public appearance on Tuesday at the\u00a0China University of Petroleum<\/strong><\/a>. From South China Morning Post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zhou, a retired member of the Communist Party&#8217;s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, attracted attention with a visit to his alma mater, China University of Petroleum, which analysts suspect was aimed at countering the intense speculation about the graft investigations surrounding his family members and prot\u00e9g\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] The university released at least 20 pictures on its website But the official reception was low-key compared to appearances by other retired leaders. Zhou was only accompanied by the university&#8217;s president and party secretary and no senior Beijing official was mentioned in the university&#8217;s press release. The visit was also not mentioned in any major state media.<\/p>\n<p>Zhou gave Xi his full backing when meeting old classmates and school officials, urging them to pursue the &#8220;Chinese dream&#8221;, a Xi catchphrase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The university] should become a first-class research university and contribute to the building of a moderately prosperous society and write a new chapter of the petroleum sector [as part of the] Chinese dream,&#8221; he was quoted as saying in a report on the university website.\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/1322468\/zhou-yongkang-re-emerges-public-raising-questions-about-graft-probe\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/zhou-yongkang\">more about Zhou Yongkang<\/a>, via CDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former security chief Zhou Yongkang, whose associates are at the center of a recent\u00a0series of anti-corruption investigations into China&#8217;s oil industry,\u00a0made a public appearance on Tuesday at the\u00a0China University of Petroleum. 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