Zhou Shuchun (right), publisher and editor-in-chief of China Daily, and Xu Chen (left), president and CEO of Bank of China USA, present gifts to guest speakers Kenneth Quinn (second right), president of The World Food Prize, Connie Sweeris (second left), former US ping-pong champion, Craig Allen (third right), president of the US-China Business Council, and Stephen Roach, senior fellow at the Yale University Jackson Institute of Global Affairs at the Vision China event at Asia Society in New York on Tuesday. [Feng Yongbin/China Daily]
Zhang was convicted of taking advantage of his position to provide assistance to organizations and individuals in business operations, real estate deals, promotions and other areas between 2006 and 2014. In return, he accepted property worth more than 32.84 million yuan, including paintings, gold, jade and jewelry, the court said.
Zhang started volunteering in 2003, when he was a law student at university. Unlike his schoolmates who looked for internships, he spent his time in museums. Born in Shaanxi Province, home of relics such as the terracotta army, Zhang loved learning about culture and history.
Zhang was later named deputy political commissar of the former Wuhan and Nanjing military commands. He also had been a provincial leader in Hubei for two periods in the 1970s and 1980s.
Zheng Junfang, chief risk officer of Alibaba, said the certification would help the group expand in overseas markets thanks to its better practice in transactions and clients information protection.
Zhang was charged with accepting property worth more than 32.84 million yuan (.8 million) personally and through his wife from 2006 to 2014.
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Zhou Chunjie, deputy director of the Publicity Department of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee, speaks during the album release conference at Inner Mongolia Normal University (IMNU) in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on Sept 12. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Zhang said "the trend of the world is unstoppable, and the strong bullying the weak receives no support".
Zhou Xinyue, a professor at Zhejiang University, said: "I appreciate the spirit behind this award. Curiosity and passion are the driving forces behind a lot of research."
Zhou Dadi, a senior researcher at the China Energy Research Society, said the merger is part of the government's plan to deepen reform of SOEs, as the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission vowed to reduce the number of central SOEs to under 100 and make them healthier and leaner.