China’s Top Graft-Buster May Become Vice President, Report Says
- Job would give Wang Qishan perch to keep influencing policy
- Ex-bank executive among China’s best-known economic reformers
Wang Qishan
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China’s outgoing anti-corruption graft chief is expected to be named vice president next year, the South China Morning Post reported, giving him a perch to continue influencing policy.
The move would allow Wang Qishan, 69, to formally serve as President Xi Jinping’s emissary despite retiring from the Communist Party’s top political body in October, the Hong Kong-based newspaper said Friday, citing several people it didn’t identify. The one-time state-run bank executive has continued to attend meetings of the supreme leadership body, the Politburo Standing Committee, the paper said.