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 ...

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 ...

For instance, Hu Jintao appointed Fang as commander of the Beijing Military Region in 2007, a critical period where Hu was beginning to gain some leverage over Jiang (Hu ordered the arrest of ...

Mr Han's ascension to the Standing Committee is all the more remarkable after the shocking 2006 downfall of his then boss Chen Liangyu amid bribery charges and clashes with party central.

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.

Other party leaders have faced criminal charges: Chen Xitong, a mayor of Beijing, was convicted of corruption in 1998. So, a decade later, was Chen Liangyu, mayor of Shanghai.

In some cases, local politicians shifted resources from social welfare to lucrative ventures such as real estate. One Politburo member, Chen Liangyu, was even indicted for pilfering some $4.8 billion ...

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.

Then, Chen Xitong and Cheng Liangyu both co-operated with the court," said historian Zhang Lifan. "People are interested to see if Bo Xilai will deny the agreement made before which shows that he ...

Chen’s fall from power and that of another convicted official, former Shanghai party Chief Chen Liangyu, marked two of the highest-level political scandals and prosecutions since Communist China ...