Society & Rights March 22, 2026 245 stories in this edition

Veteran of ‘iPhone City’ tapped as party boss of China’s Silicon Valley

SCMP Asia / Asia / 1m ago / Victoria Bela
Veteran of ‘iPhone City’ tapped as party boss of China’s Silicon Valley

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China’s southern tech hub of Shenzhen has a new Communist Party chief, nearly six months after the city’s former party boss was promoted to provincial governor. State media announced on Sunday that Jin Lei, 56, had been appointed Shenzhen’s party chief as well as a member of the Guangdong provincial party committee and its standing committee. Jin, an economist and former official in the southwestern province of Sichu...

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China’s southern tech hub of Shenzhen has a new Communist Party chief, nearly six months after the city’s former party boss was promoted to provincial governor. State media announced on Sunday that Jin Lei, 56, had been...

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