Shanghai’s No.1
Boss Purged
Shanghai’s top chief Mr.
Chen Liangyu was purged and placed under
house arrest (双规) on Monday. He
is accused of playing a part in the city’s
3.2
billion yuan pension fund scandal, helping
associated private businesses to generate
illegal profits and hindering the
corruption probes into his key allays.
Some years ago, one of his
friends was given a free hand to
redevelop Shanghai’s old residential
areas, and later was imprisoned for
serious crimes including bribery and
illegal trade practice.
It is exactly thirty years
ago, in the fall of 1976, when the Gang
of Four in Beijing along with its
Shanghai representatives – the top boss
Mr Ma Tianshui and his two deputies Ms
Wang Xiuzhen and Mr Xu Jinxian - were
arrested. And the Gang of Four is
actually the Gang of Shanghai: Madam
Jiang Qing (then China’s first lady)
used to be a Shanghai film actress, Zhang
Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan had background
as Shanghai journalists, while Wang
Hongwen was initially a Shanghai factory
worker.
In the recent decade,
Shanghai leadership with its links in
Beijing are once again viewed as the Gang
of Shanghai and widely resented for being
overbearing. It is said that earlier when
the Central Government tried to reign in
the over-heated property development in
Shanghai, Chen Liangyu resisted, and
banged the table during a hot argument
with Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.
After the news of Chen’s
fall announced, majority of Shanghai
residents are reported to be delighted,
some sounded firecrackers in front of
Shanghai government buildings. And
applauses are heard everywhere across the
Chinese Internet forums and blogs.
Top Ten Thugs in
Chinese Internet
In Chinese Internet world,
thug software, along with virus and
hacking, are three "axis of
evils". The Chinese Net world is
full of pop-ups, automatic downloads that
refuse to be uninstalled.
Eight Chinese cities led
by capital Beijing are now taking actions
against thug softwares promoted by some
Chinese Internet giants. Website Wangyi
Science compiled a blacklist of top ten
Internet thugs that use plugins to push
up their PR rank, which includes some web
search sites and social networking sites.
Hacker
Is Here, Catch Me If You Can
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