Former Shanghai Party Chief Chen Liangyu was sentenced to 18 years in jail for taking bribes and abusing power at the first hearing by the Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People's Court on Friday.

Former Shanghai Communist Party chief Chen Liangyu, who is under investigation for the Shanghai social security fund scandal, will not attend the annual meeting of the National People's Congress ...

Party secretary Chen Liangyu was dismissed after a high-level probe into alleged misuse of the city's pension fund, Xinhua news agency said. He has also been suspended from the Politburo, the party's ...

CCP Committee Secretary of Shanghai Chen Liangyu (陳良宇), a domineering thorn in the flesh of those in power who was backed by the Jiang faction during the era of former Chinese president Hu Jintao (胡錦濤 ...

Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Two days ago, the trial began against Chen Liangyu, the former head of the communist party of Shanghai, accused of using Shanghai's pension funds for private ...

As the prominent Jiang loyalist Chen Liangyu was purged from his Shanghai party chief post, Han Zheng, another Shanghai bureaucrat whose family members were found to have stashed $20 million in an ...

He worked directly under Wu Bangguo, Huang Ju, Xu Kuangdi, and Chen Liangyu. He is the only person in the history of Shanghai since 1949 who has served as mayor of Shanghai for 10 years.

The former secretary to ex-Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Liangyu was dismissed from the Shanghai Communist Party Committee on August 29, 2006 and detained on “suspicion of serious illegal ...

Xi's predecessor Hu Jintao went after two Politburo members - Shanghai party boss Chen Liangyu in 2006 and Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai in 2012. Hu's predecessor Jiang Zemin purged former ...

One Politburo member, Chen Liangyu, was even indicted for pilfering some $4.8 billion from Shanghai’s social security funds to line the pockets of property developers. The plenum unambiguously ...

Chen Liangyu, the former Shanghai Party chief, was suspended from the Party in 2006 and eventually sentenced to 18 years in prison on bribery and corruption charges. And now Bo Xilai, the former C ...

Former mayor of Beijing Chen Xitong died on Sunday morning, but news of his death did not emerge until two days later, on the 24th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown which he oversaw.