Shortly before his retirement late last year, Zhou Yongkang, the longtime chief of China’s domestic security apparatus, visited an office of the state oil company where he had started his ascent in the Communist Party hierarchy. He spoke of his undimmed devotion to the company, China National Petroleum Corporation, and to his fellow oilmen.
“Oil is a word that stays in an oilman’s heart for his whole life,” Mr. Zhou said in his valedictory.
A year later, senior officials associated with the oil conglomerate, including longtime allies of Mr. Zhou’s, are enmeshed in spreading corruption inquiries, presenting China’s new leader, Xi Jinping, with one of his biggest tests so far: How far and high is he willing to go to clean up China’s political elite?
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Chris Buckley, New York Times via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/zk6C96qJqtk/
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