Wang, 68, stepped away from his ideology role and became chairman of political advisory body the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) last year. But he continues to serve on the Politburo Standing Committee, the party’s top decision-making body, where he was ideology and propaganda chief from 2017, in his first … Read more
Cai was joined by the party’s personnel chief, Li Ganjie, and Vice-Premier Shen Yiqin, a state councillor in charge of culture and education. The retreat in Beidaihe, a coastal town on the Bohai Bay, about 300km (186 miles) east of Beijing, is also known as the “summer summit” and a traditional gathering of the party’s … Read more
In it, Lao said she was the target of online attacks which she compared to the big character posters – da zi bao in Chinese – which were a popular way to attack political opponents during the Cultural Revolution. According to Lao, the attacks followed her objections to the digital ID plan released on July … Read more
Wang, a former deputy dean and party secretary of the university’s school of liberal arts, was also expelled from the Communist Party. Local police have said they are investigating the case. Renmin University’s quick action was welcomed, but did not dispel doubts among those who believe that Chinese universities lack the mechanisms to prevent sexual … Read more
National security also gets greater prominence, with pledges to keep key industrial chains safe and boost strategic military deterrence. The goals have to be accomplished by 2029, the 80th anniversary of the People’s Republic. The coming five years will also be a decisive period for the party’s target of building a modern socialist China by … Read more
Qwen2-72B-Instruct – the most advanced version of the Hangzhou-based e-commerce giant’s Qwen family of large language models (LLMs), the open source version of Tongyi Qianwen – came in just behind OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet in a ranking from SuperClue, a benchmarking platform that evaluates models based on metrics such as calculations, logic … Read more
Observers say Beijing does not appear to be trying to cover up the scandal, even though it has emerged at a politically sensitive time ahead of the third plenum of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, which starts on Monday. There has been limited censorship around the report, which implicated a subsidiary of state-owned stockpiler Sinograin … Read more
The commission was one of several new bodies formed at the “two sessions” annual legislative meetings last year, which marked the beginning of Xi’s third term as head of state. Also last year, Premier Li Qiang was announced as head the Central Finance Commission – another party body founded that March – while Ding was … Read more
A 17-year-old student majoring in fashion design, who is self-taught in maths, beat all the artificial intelligence (AI) teams to get into the finals of the Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition, according to the final list issued by the organiser, Alibaba’s DAMO Academy. Just over 800 competitors with an average age of 22 qualified for the … Read more
That denial was issued on Monday in response to a WeChat post, which went viral on Sunday across Chinese social media, by former Royole independent director Liu Shuwei, who serves as director of the China Enterprise Research Centre at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. The post stated that Huawei had proposed … Read more
