China to cut back access to court rulings, sparking concerns about judicial transparency

China to cut back access to court rulings, sparking concerns about judicial transparency

The second is an archive of legal precedents selected by the Supreme People’s Court. It was set up three months ago, and 2,000 legal precedents have been posted there so far. Millions of court rulings removed from official Chinese database The internal court judgment database has raised concerns about whether the country’s courts will stop … Read more

Mainland China allows Taiwan grouper fish imports to resume just weeks before island’s elections

Mainland China allows Taiwan grouper fish imports to resume just weeks before island’s elections

Zhu Fenglian, a spokeswoman for the mainland’s Taiwan Affairs Office, said the decision was based on “a comprehensive assessment of relevant corrective measures”, after Taiwanese industry representatives to the mainland had provided information about measures taken to address the problem and expressed the “strong hope” that imports could resume, according to state news agency Xinhua. … Read more

How Xi Jinping and China’s Communist Party’s inner circles are all connected

How Xi Jinping and China’s Communist Party’s inner circles are all connected

How Xi Jinping and China’s Communist Party’s inner circles are all connected – 2023 update China’s Power Players By SCMP Graphics and SCMP China desk Published: December 22, 2023 This is the latest map showing connections between the Politburo Standing Committee – China’s most powerful leaders – and their Politburo colleagues, based on their official … Read more

Chinese police highlight crime crackdown in strategically important finance, tech sectors

Chinese police highlight crime crackdown in strategically important finance, tech sectors

Police in Shanghai have said a string of arrests in connection with the theft of hi-tech trade secrets was the result of a stepped up effort to protect the strategically important sector, as well as a renewed crackdown on financial crimes. Fourteen suspects were detained and seven servers confiscated after police were tipped off that … Read more

What explains the changes to Hong Kong leader’s annual duty visit to Beijing? They signal Chinese President Xi Jinping’s bigger, more direct role in city affairs, observers say

What explains the changes to Hong Kong leader’s annual duty visit to Beijing? They signal Chinese President Xi Jinping’s bigger, more direct role in city affairs, observers say

For Hong Kong, led by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu, the changes could result in improved execution of policies in matters of national security and district administration, policy pundits said after analysing remarks from Xi and Lee. President Xi Jinping presides over Monday’s meeting with John Lee sitting to his right and Premier Li Qiang … Read more

Chinese scholar Jiang Ping, who helped lay legal foundation for market economy, dies at 93

Chinese scholar Jiang Ping, who helped lay legal foundation for market economy, dies at 93

Jiang Ping, a prominent law scholar who helped build the legislative foundation for China’s market economy, died in Beijing on Tuesday. He was 93. Jiang was also known to many as the “conscience” of the legal profession in China and for his advocacy for the rule of law. Born in Ningbo, Zhejiang province in 1930, … Read more

China’s premier among top officials to pay tribute to late AI visionary Tang Xiao’ou

China’s premier among top officials to pay tribute to late AI visionary Tang Xiao’ou

The ceremony was held at Shanghai’s Longhua Funeral Home on Tuesday morning, according to a video from Shanghai-based Dragon TV. Tributes were also paid by retired policymakers, including China’s former vice-premier Liu He, who was Chinese President Xi Jinping’s top economic aide until he retired in March, as well as Li Lanqing, who served from … Read more

Earthquake rescue operation in Gansu ‘basically over’, focus now on treating and housing survivors: provincial authorities

Earthquake rescue operation in Gansu ‘basically over’, focus now on treating and housing survivors: provincial authorities

Earlier, rescuers from the fire brigade, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and civilian rescue teams were gathering for operations amid the low temperatures brought on by a cold snap. The lowest temperature in Jishishan county, where the quake struck, was around minus 14 degrees Celsius on Tuesday night. A report by Shanghai-based media outlet The … Read more

Bid to attract more overnight visitors to Hong Kong and develop high-quality tourism proposed by Chief Executive John Lee in Beijing

Bid to attract more overnight visitors to Hong Kong and develop high-quality tourism proposed by Chief Executive John Lee in Beijing

He told Sun Yeli, party secretary of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism during a closed-doors meeting that Hong Kong’s tourism industry had made a fast recovery after the last Covid-related travel restrictions were lifted earlier this year. Lee added that the number of visitors to the city in the third quarter of the year … Read more

Opinion | China still has a long way to go to make the ‘rural dream’ a reality

Opinion | China still has a long way to go to make the ‘rural dream’ a reality

Life in cities is also getting more difficult due to the high cost of living, a meltdown in the property market and the relatively low salaries on offer for those who can secure jobs. Videos recording the day-to-day struggles of ordinary city dwellers have proved enormously popular on social media, including an account that attracted … Read more