Bo Xilai resigned from Chongqing and Zhang Dejiang concurrently took up the post

Bo Xilai resigned from Chongqing and Zhang Dejiang took up the concurrent post The Chinese Communist Party officially announced on March 15: "The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has decided that Comrade Zhang Dejiang shall concurrently serve as the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee...

Former Chongqing Public Security Chief Wang Lijun suddenly entered the U.S. Consulate General in Chengdu on February 6, Beijing time, and stayed there for more than 24 hours, triggering a serious political turmoil. The news of Bo Xilai, Wang Lijun, and Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifan during this turmoil has become the focus of attention at home and abroad.

Zhang Dejiang Bo Xilai

Prior to this, many overseas media said that Bo Xilai had submitted his resignation to the central government, but it was not approved. Bo Xilai denied this during the two sessions.

Officials have not announced the whereabouts of Bo Xilai this time. In addition, the outcome of the CCP's handling of Wang Lijun and whether Huang Qifan will be transferred out of Chongqing will become the focus of attention in the future.

Bo Xilai was born in 1949 and graduated from the History Department of Peking University. After serving as mayor and secretary of the municipal party committee of Dalian City, he served successively as governor of Liaoning Province and minister of the Ministry of Commerce of China. He is the son of Bo Yibo, one of the elders of the Chinese Communist Party. His current wife is lawyer Gu Kailai. Gu Kailai's father, Major General Gu Jingsheng, was one of the initiators of the "December 9th Movement" and served as political commissar of the Xinjiang Military Region. Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai have a son, Bo Guagua, who studied at Harrow School, a British aristocratic boarding school, and graduated from Oxford University in the United Kingdom with a major in political philosophy. He is currently studying at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in the United States.

Zhang Dejiang, currently a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, is in charge of important economic fields such as industry, telecommunications, energy, and transportation. He is also the director of the Work Safety Committee of the State Council. He has served as secretary of the provincial party committee in three important provinces: Jilin, Zhejiang, and Guangdong.