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Cheng Wei (程维, born 19 May 1983) is the founder of Didi Chuxing ("DiDi", formerly known as Didi Kuaidi), China's largest comprehensive one-stop mobile transportation platform. In 2012, after 8 years at...

Yao Ming (姚明; born September 12, 1980) is a Chinese retired professional basketball player who played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

The head of the Chinese central government’s liaison office in Macau has died in a fall from his home, Beijing authorities said on Sunday morning Oct.20, 2018. Zheng...

His release coincided with the ongoing protests against extradition bill. Upon his release, Wong criticized the oppression against protesters by the Hong Kong police, and the extradition draft law as pro-Beijing and called for the Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam to resign.

Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing (张国荣， 12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003) was a Hong Kong singer and actor. He is considered "one of the founding fathers of Cantopop" by...

Lei Zhengfu (雷政富;; born July 1958) is a Chinese former politician who served as Communist Party Secretary of Beibei District, Chongqing municipality. He was dismissed from his...

Mo Yan, pen name for Guan Moye (管谟业), is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel Red Sorghum Clan, of which the Red Sorghum and Sorghum Wine...

Fang Shimin (方是民, better known by his pen name Fang Zhouzi 方舟子), is a Chinese popular scientific writer who is also well known for his campaign against...

Chinese recipient of Huang Xiangmo（黄向墨） political donation gets suspended death sentence  By Kirsty Needham Beijing: Long before he courted controversy for his Australian political donations, high profile Chinese Australian...

Zhang Weiwei (张维为) is a Chinese professor of international relations at Fudan University, and a senior research fellow at the Chunqiu Institute.

Sun Lijun was being investigated for "serious violations of discipline and the law" - a euphemism for corruption - according to China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

Liu Xin is a senior host and journalist at CGTN. She joined CCTV NEWS in July 1997. For over a decade, she was one of the channel’s signature anchors, covering many major events in China and around the world.

When this couple got married on March 15th, 2017, the husband Zhou Xiaoping tweeted their marriage on Weibo saying "I have devoted my body to my country,...

Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has spent years in prison for calling for political change in his country. For more than half...

Gao Zhisheng (高智晟，born 1964) is a Chinese human rights attorney and dissident known for defending activists and religious minorities and documenting human rights abuses in China.

Fei-Fei Li (born 1976), who publishes under the name Li Fei-Fei（李飞飞), is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. She is the director of the Stanford...

Shi Yigong (施一公; born May 1967) is a Chinese biophysicist in the field of protein X-ray crystallography and is the Dean of School of Life Sciences of Tsinghua University. Shi...

Li Na (李娜, born 26 February 1982) is a Chinese former professional tennis player, who achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 2 on the WTA Tour on 17 February 2014.

Li-Meng Yan is a Chinese virologist. Yan claims she is a whistleblower who researched the COVID-19 at the University of Hong Kong, later leaving the city for the United States.

Cui Yongyuan apologizes to Fan Bingbing after accusing of her tax evasion Chinese TV host and producer Cui Yongyuan (崔永元) has apologized to Fan Bingbing after apparently getting...