Xi Jinping’s huge anti-graft campaign has continued with the execution of a mining billionaire. Its effect is now so widespread that some warn daily work is grinding to a halt
November 2014
Elephant ivory price ‘spiked as China VIPs snapped up thousands of kilos’
Beijing dismisses scathing EIA report on wildlife trade which claims ivory haul of Xi Jinping delegates in Tanzania doubled price on illegal market
August 2013
New leader Xi Jinping opens door to reform in China
Following a decade of conservative leadership in Beijing under Hu Jintao, the country may be on the cusp of radical change, writes the BBC's world affairs editor
March 2013
Xi Jinping becomes China's president
Vote appoints Communist party's chosen successor to Hu Jintao, completing transfer of power to new panel of rulers
January 2013
Now China's new leaders will have to work hard
Isabel Hilton
Isabel Hilton: How they deal with future economic challenges and the Tibet crisis will test whether the claim to wise meritocracy is credible
December 2012
Top Chinese official detained as Xi's anti-corruption drive nets first suspect
Sichuan boss Li Chuncheng held for 'breaching party discipline' in first sign of Xi Jinping's expected crackdown on corruption
November 2012
China: Hu Jintao's last hurrah
What Xi Jinping must do if China is to become a real superpower
Lijia Zhang
China: leadership in transition
China's Communist party holds national congress - in pictures
China: leadership in transition
China's Hu Jintao warns congress corruption could cause fall of state
