Bo Xilai – Party Chief, Zhejiang Provincial Committee, Communist Party of China.

Bo Xilai

 

Bo Xilai – Party Chief, Zhejiang Provincial Committee, Communist Party of China.

Bo Xilai was stripped of all power and assets, and imprisoned for life. His wife, Gu Kailai, was given a suspended death sentence for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.

From Wikipedia: “Bo Xilai is a Chinese former politician. He came to prominence through his tenures as the mayor of Dalian and then the governor of Liaoning. From 2004 to November 2007, he served as Minister of Commerce. Between 2007 and 2012, he served as a member of the Central Politburo and secretary of the Communist Party’s Chongqing branch. On 22 September 2013, Bo was found guilty of corruption, stripped of all his assets, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Geng Huichang – Minister of State Security.

Geng Huichang

 

Geng Huichang – Minister of State Security, Communist Party of China.

Geng Huichang remains the Minister of State Security of the People’s Republic of China. Geng is a political ally of former President Hu Jintao, who promoted him to Minister so he could consolidate his own power.Geng is an international relations specialist and an expert on the United States, Japan and industrial espionage. Geng is the first Minister of State Security with a background in international politics rather than internal security.

Beginning in January 2010 Geng, has also been a member of the National Energy Commission, a State Council-established body designed to improve the coordination of China’s energy industry.[18] He is also a member of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission

Han Zheng – Mayor of Shanghai.

Han Zheng

 

Han Zheng – Mayor of Shanghai.

In November 2012 he was promoted to become the Party Secretary of Shanghai, the top political post in the city.

Huang Jiefu – Vice Minister, Ministry of Health.

Huang Jiefu

Huang Jiefu – Vice Minister, Ministry of Health, Communist Party of China.

Huang Jiefu is often in the spotlight for China’s reputation for harvesting executed prisoner’s organs. He is now chairman of the Human Organ Donation and Transplant Committee. He is also president of the China Organ Transplant Development Foundation.

Liu Yunshan – Director, Department of Propaganda.

Liu Yunshan

 

Liu Yunshan – Director, Department of Propaganda, Communist Party of China.

Liu Yunshan is one of the top leaders of the Communist Party of China, and a current member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the de facto top decision-making body of China.

Liu currently holds a number of important offices in the national leadership of the Communist Party, including that of the first-ranked Secretary of the Secretariat, Chairman of the Commission for Building Spiritual Civilization, leader of the Propaganda and Ideology Leading Group and President of the Central Party School.[1] He is generally seen as the top official in charge of ideology, propaganda work, and party organization.

Liu Zhijun – Secretary General, Minister of Railways.

Liu Zhijun

 

Liu Zhijun – Secretary General, Minister of Railways.

As Railway Minister, Liu oversaw numerous expansions of China’s railway system, most notably the rapid development of China’s high-speed railway. He was a figure of national praise until February 2011, when he was arrested and expelled from the Party over allegations of corruption. After the Wenzhou train collision in July 2011, in which forty people died and one hundred and ninety-two people were injured, a government report singled out his leadership as one of the main contributors to the crash and he was publicly criticized.

In April 2013, Zhijun was arrested on corruption charges for allegedly taking bribes and abusing his power as Minister of Railways.He was convicted and received a death sentence with reprieve in July 2013.

Zhou Yongkang – Secretary of Central Political and Legislative Committee.

Zhou Yongkang

 

Zhou Yongkang – Secretary of Communist Party of China, Central Political and Legislative Committee.

In late 2013, Zhou was placed under investigation for alleged abuse of power and corruption, a decision state media announced in July 2014. Zhou was the first Politburo Standing Committee member – and the most senior-ranked official – since the founding of the People’s Republic of China to be tried and convicted of corruption-related charges. Following his investigation, Zhou was expelled from the Communist Party of China. On June 11, 2015, Zhou was convicted of bribery, abuse of power and the intentional disclosure of state secrets by the Intermediate Court in Tianjin. Zhou and his family members were said to have taken 129 million yuan (over $20 million) in bribes. He was sentenced to life in prison.

Wang Yang – Party Chief, Guangdong Province.

Wang Yang

 

Wang Yang – Party Chief, Guangdong Provincial Committee, Communist Party of China.

Wang is one of the four Vice Premiers of China in Premier Li Keqiang‘s Government. Until January 2013, he served as the Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong; the southern Chinese province’s top office. He served as the party secretary of Chongqing, an interior municipality, from 2005 to 2007. First as the holder of an important regional post, and now as a vice premier, Wang also holds a seat on the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, the country’s ruling council.

Wang was seen as one of the leading reformers in China’s top leadership, and is often credited with pioneering the Guangdong model of development, characterized by an emphasis on private enterprise, economic growth and a greater role for civil society. He was widely considered to be one of the most strongly ‘liberal’ members of the Chinese elite, advocating for economic and political reform.

Xi Jinping – Vice President

Xi Jinping

 

Xi Jinping – Vice President, People’s republic of China.

Is now the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, the President of the People’s Republic of China, and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission. As Xi holds the top offices of the party and the military, in addition to being the head of state through the office of the president, Xi is sometimes referred to as China’s “Paramount Leader“. As the general secretary (de facto leader), Xi is also an ex-officio member of the Politburo Standing Committee, China’s top decision-making body.

Xu Caihou – Vice Chairman Central Military Commission.

Xu Caihou

 

Xu Caihou – Vice Chairman Central Military Commission. People’s Republic of China.

Xu was detained and put under investigation on suspicion of bribery in March 2014, in one of the highest profile corruption investigations in PLA history, and was expelled from the Communist Party in June 2014. It was alleged that Xu had traded “massive bribes” for the promotion of officers under him during his time as Vice-Chairman of the CMC. Xu was undergoing legal proceedings and facing a court martial but charges were dropped after he died of bladder cancer in March 2015

Yang Jiechi

 

Yang Jiechi – Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Yang Jiechi joined the inner circle of the State Council in 2013, as a State Councilor under Premier Li Keqiang. In this capacity, he serves as one of the most prominent architects of China’s foreign policy.