Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the Communist Party's supreme decision-making body, has been the highest ranking Party cadre to be a target of a corruption investigation.The Party's graft fighters announced the investigation into Zhou on July 29, after having rounded up a number of his allies in Sichuan province and China National Petroleum
These past few years as a reporter, I have met some people with nothing left to live for and now another person can be added to the list. Ji Zhongxing, the disabled man who set off a bomb in a Beijing airport on July 20, is that person.Ji and I are the same age. We were both born in 1979. Last night, when I read his story, I was grabbed by a strange feeling.In 2005, we were