Hu Jintao

In a farming village in China's Shanxi province, a place with vast stretches of dry yellow earth, I visited a woman they call "huohuashi," a living fossil.

BEIJING--In a private room of an expensive restaurant in Beijing, a woman exuding sophistication, power and wealth leaned toward her dinner companion who worked at a...

After earning his keep for four years at a county branch in Shanxi province, Ling Jihua was chosen for a position in the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League in...

SHENYANG, China--It has more members than most European countries have people, and it has long nurtured leaders of the world’s second-largest economy. But little is actually...

BEIJING--A yellowish fog caused by air pollution in mid-January fell over Zhongguancun in the Haidian district of Beijing, an area known as China's Silicon Valley because of...

CHONGQING, China--Ren Jianyu, once a model student and loyal member of the Communist Youth League, has seen his life turned upside down because of a cartoon he found on the...

SHENYANG, China—In between sips of coffee, a woman in her 30s wearing an expensive-looking blue coat praised her sixth-grade daughter and recalled one of their happiest...

GONGQINGCHENG, China—Streams of visitors still pay their respects at a triangular gravestone about 4 meters high on a hill overlooking a lake.

BEIJING--A Communist Party official stated the obvious when a Japanese delegation was visiting the Beijing Hall of the Great Hall of the People on Jan. 29.

Editor's note: This is the 14th in a series of articles on the Communist Youth League and the officials who have used the organization as their power base. This series will...

Editor's note: This is the 13th in a series of articles on the Communist Youth League and the officials who have used the organization as their power base. This series will...

The Xi Jinping administration took full control of power on March 17, when the National People's Congress (NPC) closed after naming Xi president. Xi set the tone at the NPC by...

Editor's note: This is the 10th in a series of articles on the Communist Youth League and the officials who have used the organization as their power base. This series will...

Editor's note: This is the seventh in a series of articles on the Communist Youth League and the officials who have used the organization as their power base. This series will...

Editor's note: This is the sixth in a series of articles on the Communist Youth League and the officials who have used the organization as their power base. This series will...