Zhou Yongkang

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Zhou Yongkang
周永康
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Zhou in 2006
Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission
In office
October 22, 2007 November 20, 2012
Alma mater Suzhou High School
Beijing Petroleum Institute
OccupationOil exploration
  1. The event was noted for being a gathering of Sichuan's political and business elite at the time. Those on the guest list included Deng Hong, Li Chongxi, Ji Wenlin, Guo Yongxiang, He Huazhang, Tan Li, and Li Chuncheng. All were detained for investigation or charged with corruption related crimes fourteen years later.
  2. The original in Chinese was the idiomatic phrase "祸国殃民、荼毒天下"
  3. Due to the opaqueness of machinations of China's political elites, numerous conspiracy theories emerged on what really happened in Beijing on the night of March 19 in what became known as the "March 19 Beijing coup". A widely circulated theory from Chinese-language news portal Boxun alleged that Zhou dispatched paramilitary troops in an attempt to free former Dalian Shide executive chairman Xu Ming, and ally of Bo Xilai, from custody, so as to prevent Xu from testifying at Bo's trial. Another more elaborate theory by New York-based Mingjing News stated that Zhou Yongkang planned to launch a coup on the night of March 19, and that Hu Jintao dispatched the 38th Army into Beijing in order to protect the Zhongnanhai compound from incursions by Zhou's "coup militia". This theory posits that paramilitary forces stormed Xinhua Gate and were repelled by the 38th Army in a stand off during which gunshots were fired into the air. Thereafter Hu Jintao received a phone call from former leader Jiang Zemin, who told Hu that Zhou had no intentions of launching a coup, which de-escalated the situation. None of these theories have been independently verified, nor reported on by mainstream English-language news sources.
  4. The spokesman was referring to the unspoken rule that the authorities cannot confirm or deny any facts related to any party investigation before an official announcement was made. Indeed, in his response, he did not even utter Zhou's name. The phrase ni dongde (你懂的) became so popular after its use by the spokesman that it was regularly used on social media websites as a placeholder for Zhou Yongkang himself, whose name was still routinely censored at the time. To evade censorship, other names used for Zhou included "Master Kang" (康师傅), from the instant noodles brand which shares the Chinese character "Kang", "Big Tiger" (大老虎), "Old Tiger" (老老虎), and "Zhou Tiger" (周老虎).
  5. The last Politburo Standing Committee members expelled from the Chinese Communist Party were members of the Gang of Four, Zhang Chunqiao and Wang Hongwen, following their trials in 1980. It is worth noting that Zhao Ziyang, PSC member at the time of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 who opposed martial law, and the last PSC member before Zhou to have fallen out of political favour, was never expelled from the party.
  6. According to He, Zhou had formed a "New Gang of Four" with Bo Xilai, disgraced general Xu Caihou, and former General Office chief Ling Jihua, a modern incarnation of the so-called "counter-revolutionary clique" whose real crime was deviating from the party line and "standing on the wrong side". He compared Zhou to losers of historical power struggles in the party, including Gao Gang, Rao Shushi, Liu Shaoqi, Lin Biao, the Gang of Four, Hu Yaobang, and Zhao Ziyang, and asserted that out of these cases only Zhou had truly engaged in forming a political clique to commit a conspiracy against the party's leaders. These assertions have not been independently verified.
  7. Shen Bing (born 1976), is also a former television host with CCTV. It has been suggested by overseas Chinese media that Shen was a favourite of Zhou, though this has not been confirmed by any authoritative sources. Her autobiography was published in Hong Kong and its authenticity has been questioned.
  8. The Chinese name of the company was "北京中旭阳光能源科技股份有限公司". Abbreviated Zhongxu)

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Zhou Yongkang
Chinese 周永康
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Zhōu Yǒngkāng
IPA Mandarin pronunciation: [tʂoʊ˥jʊŋ˧˩kaŋ˥]
Wu
Romanization Tzoe Yon-khân
Party political offices
Preceded by Chinese Communist Party Sichuan Secretary
1999–2002
Succeeded by
Preceded by Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party
2007–2012
Succeeded by
Government offices
Preceded by
Position created
Minister of Land and Resources
1998–1999
Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Public Security
2002–2007
Succeeded by
Order of precedence
Preceded by
He Guoqiang
Discipline Secretary
9th Rank of the Chinese Communist Party
17th Politburo Standing Committee
Succeeded by
Wang Gang
Member of 17th Politburo, ranked first according to
Surname stroke order