Tag: China’s richest

Zhang Dejiang: economics student to Chinese potentate

BEIJING , China (AFP) — Top Chinese Communist Zhang Dejiang, currently visiting Hong Kong, studied economics in North Korea and went on to run China’s richest and most populous province before ascending to the highest levels of the ruling party. Now 69, he was born in Liaoning in the northeast and was “sent down” to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution — which was declared 50 years ago on Monday. After his studies at Kim […]