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A visitor listens to different regional dialects at a new exhibition hall showcasing recordings and other language materials from across China at the Hunan Museum in Changsha. Photo: Xinhua
Chinese culture

10 years, 1,800 survey sites: how China is using tech to map language diversity

New Hunan Museum hall showcases major Chinese dialects and more than 100 ethnic minority languages, including Mongolian, Tibetan and Uygur.

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Accidents and disasters in China

Chinese rescuers reach checkpoint destroyed by deadly floods along Nepal border

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Corruption in China

China’s anti-corruption drive by the numbers

China’s Communist Party

In Focus | Why China’s mineral hubs and border regions face heaviest anti-corruption toll

China’s past CCDI annual plenums stress intensifying efforts to combat corruption where ‘power, funds and resources are concentrated’.

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China’s Communist Party

It’s official: China’s cadres are liable for environmental damage for life

Revised personnel rules tie performance to eco-impact more closely as the country shifts gear from growth to sustainability.

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Corruption in China

Xi’s 13-year corruption campaign just keeps accelerating

China’s anti-graft investigators are targeting more officials, including more retirees, according to a South China Morning Post research project.

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Corruption in China

In Focus | More than ‘a gust of wind’: behind Xi Jinping’s expanding anti-graft campaign

Far from a temporary crackdown, the campaign has proved to be a key tool for enforcing party discipline and driving economic strategy.

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China’s Communist Party

Opinion | Why China is highlighting Jiang Zemin’s legacy

Placing Jiang in the uninterrupted development of the Communist Party and the country reinforces a political narrative of succession without rupture.

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China economy

Opinion | As China shows, liberal capitalism is not the only path

China has disproved one of the post-Cold War era’s most confident assumptions: that the Western model is the only route to modernity.

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China’s Communist Party

Xi Jinping leads party elite in final farewell for ex-premier Zhu Rongji

Party elite attend ceremony at Beijing’s Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery and offer condolences to Zhu’s family.

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President Xi Jinping conveys his condolences to members of Zhu Rongji’s family at a cremation ceremony in Beijing on Tuesday. Top Communist Party leaders gathered to pay their respects to the late former premier of China. Photo: Xinhua
China’s Communist Party

Obituary | Zhu Rongji: leading China’s transformation through ‘minefield or abyss’

China’s bold economic tsar who drove sweeping SOE reforms and secured WTO entry has died aged 97.

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Then premier Zhu Rongji pictured with president Jiang Zemin in 1999. Photo: Xinhua
Politburo

Editorial | Politburo meeting signals cautious confidence in China’s economy

Beijing’s emphasis on hi-tech self-sufficiency and balanced trade also provides a clear road map for the Hong Kong government.

China’s Communist Party

China factories cool, CXMT surges, PLA marks anniversary

This week: China manufacturing surprisingly contracts, the Politburo dampens stimulus expectations, memory maker CXMT surges after IPO, and the US bans imports of Chinese robots. Next week: The PLA celebrates its 99th anniversary, July exports may cool, HSBC posts earnings, soccer giants play in Hong Kong, and more.

China’s Communist Party

July Politburo meeting read-out

SCMP Plus annotates the read-out of the July meeting of China’s top-level Politburo, where it was agreed that the Communist Party’s fifth plenum will be held in October and which signalled stronger support for the economy.

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China's economic recovery

China’s Politburo pledges policy support, spending to counteract sluggish growth

The high-level decision-making body also set October for the fifth Central Committee plenum, which will set the stage for next year’s party congress.

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President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 8. Photo: Xinhua
China economy

As I see it | How the New Left won the battle of ideas for 21st-century China

Their revisionism challenges the neoliberal perspective which treats Maoist command economics and Deng-era capitalist reforms as diametrically opposed.

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China’s Communist Party

As I see it | Sometimes, it pays to be a backward country

For all the destruction of the Mao era, it also replaced traditional structures with modern frameworks that set up China for rapid growth.

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Corruption in China

Video | Xi’s corruption crackdown by the numbers

A data-driven multimedia analysis of the anti-corruption campaign launched by President Xi Jinping, seen as key to the Communist Party’s survival.

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Xi’s corruption crackdown by the numbers
China’s Communist Party

A model for other states? China’s Xi lauds Communist Party’s global influence

On the 105th anniversary of the ruling party’s founding, Xi Jinping also warns members to stay vigilant and prepare for challenges.

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China society

How ‘lying flat’ went from a niche subculture to mainstream phenomenon

Spy agency says foreign forces are ‘brainwashing’ people, but critics call lying flat a rational response to a broken system.

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China’s Communist Party

Why the new party academy role held by Xi Jinping’s chief of staff is important

China’s president describes party schools as crucial for helping uphold ideological direction in the face of ‘hostile forces’.

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Cai Qi, 70, will head China’s Central Party School. He sits on the Politburo Standing Committee and is secretary of the party’s secretariat and director of the party’s general office. Photo: Reuters
Accidents and disasters in China

In China’s coal country, party chief called to account after fatal safety failures

Zhao Yongjin inspected the Liushenyu Coal Mine just a few months before the country’s deadliest mine incident in over a decade.

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Preliminary investigation results have exposed severe safety problems at Liushenyu Coal Mine in Qinyuan county in China’s central Shanxi province. Photo Xinhua
China’s Communist Party

China’s anti-corruption watchdog targets its former senior official Li Xiaohong

The 73-year-old who retired nine years ago from the CCDI is suspected of ‘serious violations of discipline and law’.

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China’s Communist Party

More red tape, less progress: China’s cadres struggle to adopt ‘error tolerance’

Sapping time, energy and morale, bureaucratic practices keep weighing down local officials across the country, report finds.

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Law

How has China’s year-long law enforcement campaign changed local governance?

The nationwide campaign uncovered more than 66,000 problematic cases in the application of administrative laws, officials said.

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Chinese authorities said more than 300,000 unqualified law enforcement personnel were removed or reassigned during the campaign. Photo: Shutterstock
China economy

Opinion | Rise of China complicates ‘authoritarian’ vs ‘democratic’ binary

As China’s trajectory exposes the limitations of labels inherited from another era, understanding how governance systems work is more important.

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A large screen shows news footage of China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe collecting a sample from the far side of the moon, in Beijing, China, on June 4, 2024. Photo: Reuters
China economy

Opinion | China wants its provinces to compete, but not get in each other’s way

Beijing wants provinces to compete, but not across identical wish lists. Whether that works will become visible over the next five years.

China’s Communist Party

Could hair or cosmetics be make-or-break for China’s would-be civil servants?

Competition for ‘iron rice bowl’ jobs has intensified, prompting official media to publish advice for jobseekers.

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