Peking University Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Criminal status
Convicted by Jinan Intermediate People's Court on September 2013
Criminal charge
Bribery, Embezzlement, Abuse of Office
Penalty
Life imprisonment
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
薄熙来
Traditional Chinese
薄熙來
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Bó Xīlái
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Baur Shilai
Wade–Giles
Po2 Hsi2-lai2
IPA
[pwǒ ɕí.lǎɪ]
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
Bok6 Hei1-loi4
IPA
[pɔːk̚˨ hei˥.lɔːi˩]
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Chinese political thought
Liberalism
Ai Weiwei
Gu Su
Qin Hui
Xu Jilin
Xu Youyu
Zhu Xueqin
Zhang Weiying
Wu Jinglian
Liu Xiaobo
Fang Fang
He Weifang
Zhang Qianfan
Mao Yushi
Li Yinhe
New Conservatism
Chen Yuan
Wang Huning
Gan Yang
Jiang Shigong
Wu Jiaxiang
Xiao Gongqin
Zheng Yongnian
Hu Xijin
New Confucianism
Chen Ming
Jiang Qing
Kang Xiaoguang
Yan Xuetong
Daniel A. Bell
New Left
Dai Jinhua
Gao Mobo
Cui Zhiyuan
Li Minqi
Wang Hui
Wang Shaoguang
Qiu Zhanxuan
Yue Xin
Politics of China
Socialism with Chinese characteristics
Democracy movements
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Bo Xilai (Chinese: 薄熙来; pinyin: Bó Xīlái; born 3 July 1949) is a Chinese former politician who was convicted on bribery and embezzlement charges. He came to prominence through his tenures as Mayor of Dalian and then the governor of Liaoning. From 2004 to November 2007, he served as Minister of Commerce. Between 2007 and 2012, he served as a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing, a major interior municipality. He was generally considered the main political rival of Xi Jinping before Xi became the paramount leader of China.
He is the son of former Chinese Vice Premier Bo Yibo. He cultivated a casual and charismatic image in a marked departure from Chinese political convention. In Chongqing, Bo initiated a campaign against organized crime, increased spending on welfare programs, maintained consistent double-digit percentage GDP growth, and campaigned to revive Cultural Revolution-era "red culture". Bo's promotion of egalitarian values and the achievements of his "Chongqing model" made him the champion of the Chinese New Left, composed of both Maoists and social democrats disillusioned with the country's market-based economic reforms and increasing economic inequality. However, the perceived lawlessness of Bo's anti-corruption campaigns, coupled with concerns about the image he cultivated, made him a controversial figure.
Bo was considered a likely candidate for promotion to the elite CCP Politburo Standing Committee at the 18th Party Congress in 2012. However, his political fortunes came to an abrupt end following the Wang Lijun incident, in which his top lieutenant and police chief sought asylum at the American consulate in Chengdu. Wang claimed to have information about the involvement of Bo Xilai and his wife Gu Kailai in the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, who allegedly had close financial ties to the two. In the fallout, Bo was removed as the CCP Committee secretary of Chongqing and lost his seat on the Politburo. He was later stripped of all his positions and lost his seat at the National People's Congress and eventually expelled from the party. In 2013, Bo was found guilty of corruption, stripped of all his assets and sentenced to life imprisonment. He is incarcerated at Qincheng Prison.
BoXilai (Chinese: 薄熙来; pinyin: BóXīlái; born 3 July 1949) is a Chinese former politician who was convicted on bribery and embezzlement charges. He came...
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career of BoXilai, who was seen as a top contender for a top leadership position at the 18th Party Congress in 2012. In the scandal's aftermath, Bo was dismissed...
lawyer and businesswoman. She is the second wife of former Politburo member BoXilai, one of China's most influential politicians until he was stripped of his...
China's top leader and Party General Secretary since 2012, and BoXilai (son of Bo Yibo), a former Party Committee Secretary of Chongqing who was also...
countries on earth, with a Gini coefficient of 0.47 as of 2020. In 2011, BoXilai, the CCP committee secretary of Chongqing, undertook a campaign to promote...
that of BoXilai two years earlier, which was noted for being unusually open. In contrast to Bo, Zhou did not appear to dispute his charges. Bo, for the...
both Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin, and to promote the career of his son, BoXilai. He was the last remaining, and longest-lived, of the Eight Elders at the...
prominent politician BoXilai, initially working for Bo in Liaoning province, then taking up the police chief post in Chongqing once Bo became the Chinese...
BoXilai, who promoted a set of socio-economic policies collectively termed the "Chongqing model", though they suffered a blow after the end of Bo's career...
associated with BoXilai, who served as the city's Communist Party secretary from 2007 to 2012, though some policies were put in place by Bo's predecessors...
of BoXilai, a renowned leftist figure in China, Kong showered Bo with praise on his talk show, calling Bo a "mob-fighting hero." Kong called Bo's dismissal...
Chinese Constitutionalist Party in English. Founded by the supporters of BoXilai in 2013 and banned in December of that year. The Chinese Proletarian Revolutionary...
officials and their families, especially the former Politburo member BoXilai. After Bo was implicated in a political scandal and fell from power in 2012...
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consider violations of the national constitution by the Communist Party. BoXilai was elected the party's "Chairman for Life", because the party considered...
leader was threatened with the rapid rise of BoXilai, the party secretary of Chongqing at the time. Bo was expected to join the PSC at the 18th Party...
terms of political strategies and mass mobilisation via red songs was BoXilai in Chongqing. Although Mao Zedong Thought is still listed as one of the...
outside China have filed dozens of lawsuits against Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, BoXilai, and other Chinese officials alleging genocide and crimes against humanity...
Communist Party officials began investigating Politburo member BoXilai for a variety of crimes. Bo had previously been governor of Liaoning province, which...
Bo, described a variety of the Red Guards activities taken to teach the next generation what was no longer the norms. This was done according to Bo with...
2011. Carried out under the auspices of municipal Communist Party chief BoXilai and police chief Wang Lijun, a total of 4,781 suspects were arrested, including...
visits for anti-Japan protests in China, and by Chinese commerce minister BoXilai as "severely hurting the Chinese people's feelings and damaging the political...
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