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...China’s securities regulator publicly called in Cong, then the bank’s president, for a “supervisory discussion” last September....
...Bao’s connections to China’s tech sector were formed in the late 1990s when he met the founders of the country’s “tech trinity” — Alibaba’s Jack Ma, Tencent’s Pony Ma and Baidu’s Robin Li....
...In a proposal to the CPPCC this year, Jia Qingguo, a professor at the School of International Relations at Beijing’s elite Peking University, said restrictions on officials and academics meeting outsiders...
...The probe also involves the group’s former president Cong Lin. The whereabouts of both men remain unknown....
...During his time in the city, he worked alongside China’s number-two leader, Premier Li Qiang, who was then Shanghai’s party secretary....
...Cong previously overlapped at ICBC with Li Xiaopeng, former chair of state-owned financial conglomerate China Everbright Group....
...Playing defence At an event in Brussels in November, Fu Cong, the Chinese ambassador to the EU, made clear his country’s feelings about the tax on carbon....
...Krizia Li, founder of luxury Asian art ecommerce platform Vermillion, says she has seen a stellar recovery in the first quarter of this year, driven by savvy millennials and Gen-Z’ers....
...The journal added a correction following complaints from academics to make clear Zhong’s ties to Jia but did not mention his links to Shijiazhuang Yiling....
...Wang Jia, a bond trader in Pudong, said “the situation is getting out of control” as officials struggled to quarantine the growing number of people testing positive....
...Additional reporting by Maiqi Ding in Beijing, Gloria Li and Andy Lin in Hong Kong and Eleanor Olcott in Taipei...
...Chef Tak Chow, who runs the canteen’s kitchen, served as the apprentice of Li “Broken Teeth” Cheng, one of whose ancestors was the household chef for the prominent Qing dynasty official Gong Taai Si....
...“Xiaomi moved aggressively to seize [market share] from Huawei,” said Mo Jia, analyst at Canalys. “There was symmetry in Q3, as Xiaomi added 14.5m units and Huawei lost 15.1m....
...Jia asks. The answer is no, he said, at least for now. “What a computer system can capture is only a simplified version of human behaviours.”...
...Mr Cong added that China’s debt pressure was “far below the levels in major advanced and emerging economies”....
...Apple only managed to reopen its first store outside of China on April 18,” said Jia Mo, analyst at market research company Canalys....
...They think this epidemic is life-threatening,” said Mr Li, who has delayed his fundraising plans as a result....
...Once hailed as a visionary entrepreneur and one of China's richest men, Jia Yueting’s fall from grace has been spectacular. He owes creditors billions....
...In his annual government work report to China’s rubber-stamp parliament last month, Premier Li Keqiang dropped any mention of the official mantra in 2017 and 2018 that “houses are for living in, not for...
...“This technology is still a bit of a gimmick and is unlikely to be rolled out on a large scale in the next 3-5 years,” said Ge Jia, an influential Beijing-based technology blogger....
...Li Huijie, research and development director at CSCI Pengyuan Credit Rating in Beijing, says that that puts Chinese agencies in a weak position, because they are seen as rubber stamps needed to meet the...
...“We will deliver and step up policy measures in support of the private sector [and] remove all hidden obstacles to their investment,” Premier Li Keqiang said in a speech at the “Summer Davos” conference...
...Alibaba-owned Lazada, one of south-east Asia’s biggest ecommerce companies, has appointed Chun Li as chief executive of its Indonesia business....
...The second, Lu Jia, was denounced by ultra-leftist students using Cultural Revolution terminology for what they said were his failings on Marxist ideology....
...Additional reporting by Yizhen Jia in Shanghai...
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