Chinese Vice President Han Zheng attend a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (File: AP) Han rose up the in Shanghai during the 1980s and 1990s, just as China's economy was ...

True authority lies with the ruling Communist Party’s powerful Politburo Standing Committee, from which Han retired in 2022.But sending a high-profile official – and one who has previously ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have personally accepted U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to his inauguration, but Beijing has taken the rare step of dispatching a top official to join ...