LinkAsia
| Jan 25, 2013
Nicknamed "Big Eyes", Li Chengpeng is a crusading former reporter whose books have sold millions of copies in China. But Li's fame was not enough to stop authorities from trying to shut him up. Contributor David Bandurski reports from Hong Kong on...
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CCTV News
| Jan 23, 2013
A cold winter has forced China to burn billions of tons of coal, joining vehicle exhaust as the major contributors to the catastrophic smog hitting cities. CCTV News speaks with Yang Fuqiang of the Natural Resources Defense Council, who says that ...
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CCTV News
| Jan 22, 2013
For many migrant workers in China's metropolitan areas, the Spring Festival is the only time of the year that they are able to return home and spend time with their families. But as state-run CCTV News reports, many workers are unable to head home...
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MBC
| Jan 11, 2013
On January 6, journalists at Guangzhou's hard-hitting Southern Weekly newspaper went on strike to protest government censors rewriting a scathing New Year's Day editorial calling for political reform. South Korean broadcaster MBC breaks down the s...
LinkAsia
| Jan 11, 2013
There's always been an implicit understanding that Chinese journalists could negotiate changes with government censors. But, as contributor David Bandurski reports, the drama that unfolded in the Southern Weekly newsroom shows what happens when of...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 9, 2013
China's Southern Weekly newspaper was back on newsstands today after censors agreed to back off. Al Jazeera speaks to the Washington Post's Beijing bureau chief about the journalists' strike that could prove to be a landmark moment for press freed...
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CCTV News
| Jan 9, 2013
The Chinese government's disciplinary body has investigated nearly 160,000 corruption cases since they stepped up their anti-corruption fight, purporting to have recovered over seven billion yuan. State-run CCTV News gives China's official perspec...
LinkAsia
| Jan 8, 2013
China's feisty Southern Weekly newspaper has become the focal point of renewed press freedom protests after their controversial New Year's editorial was rewritten by propaganda officials. LinkAsia speaks with Anne Henochowicz of the China Digital ...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 7, 2013
Journalists at a leading Chinese newspaper have gone on strike in a dispute over press freedom. The Southern Weekly is known for its investigative journalism. But last week an editorial that called for political reform was changed by a censor so t...
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CCTV News
| Dec 28, 2012
The Washington-based International Monetary Fund reports that personal savings in China have reached 50 percent of incomes, more than twice the world's average. State-run CCTV News reports on what young people in particular are saving up for.
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...for its construction was later given a suspended death sentence for corruption, according to state media. The "cleanup inspection" is part of a ...
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...surrounding the dismissal of Bo Xilai, the former party chairman of the city of Chongqing. A day before Bo's dismissal on March 15, Wen had told...
The Communist Party of China, also known as the Chinese Communist Party, is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China. Although nominally it exists alongside the United Front, a coalition of governing political parties, in practice, the CPC is the only party in the PRC, maintaining a unitary government and centralizing the state, military, and media. The legal power of the Communist Party is guaranteed by the national constitution, though due to the Party's Leninist roots, it stands above the law. The current party leader is Xi Jinping, who holds the title of General Secretary of the Central Committee.
Since becoming an institution of the state, aside from official commitment to communism and Marxism-Leninism, the party also has de facto unrecognized factions including consumerist and neoliberal figures including business people on the right who effectively support capitalism, as well as factions on the left that oppose the right in the party, and other factions.
The party was founded in July 1921 in Shanghai. After a lengthy civil war, the CPC defeated its primary rival, the Kuomintang, and assumed full control of mainland China by 1949. The Kuomintang retreated to the island of Taiwan, where it still remains to this day.
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