Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, is China’s biggest annual celebration and falls on January 29 this time. Chen issued the call for stronger security measures at key venues and for major events as he toured central Hubei province last week, state news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday. He also called for increased street patrols … Read more
China’s judges and prosecutors must pay more attention to solving conflicts and ensuring fairness rather than just closing cases, a senior judicial official said in a rare commentary, as authorities reflect on a string of mass killings in recent weeks. Wang Chengguo, secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Zhejiang province, wrote in … Read more
A knife-wielding brawl in the southwestern province of Sichuan ended with the fatal stabbing of a man, in China’s third deadly episode in recent days. According to Chengdu police, a 35-year-old man surnamed Zhu stabbed a man on Monday afternoon after a traffic dispute. The victim died despite medical treatment. Zhu has been placed under … Read more
The one-paragraph Xinhua report on Monday morning did not offer any further details of the meeting. 09:12 China’s third plenum: what to expect from the much-delayed policy meeting China’s third plenum: what to expect from the much-delayed policy meeting The event – formally known as the third plenum of the 20th Central Committee – is … Read more
China has rolled out new rules to strengthen its nationwide network of community workers, the group that was once key to enforcing its “zero-Covid” strategies on the ground. The stronger network will aim to “maintain social stability and consolidate the party’s long-term rule”, China’s cabinet and the ruling Communist Party’s central decision-making body said in … Read more
