Jiang Weiping

Jiang Weiping () is a veteran mainland Chinese journalist known internationally for his arrest by the Communist Party of China in 2001. During his career, he received several awards from local and provincial governments for his journalism and reporting. In 1999, he began publishing a series of articles about the Communist Party corruption in the Hong Kong magazine Frontline ().

Career

Jiang was a reporter for Xinhua News Agency in the 1980s. From the early 1990s he was the Northeastern China bureau chief of the pro-Beijing Wen Wei Po newspaper in Hong Kong.

In 1999 Jiang began writing a series of articles about the corruption of the Communist party for the Hong Kong magazine Frontline. By 2001 Jiang was a reporter working in mainland China for the Hong Kong magazine.

The reports

• Shenyang vice Mayor Ma Xiangdong lost nearly 30 million yuan (US $3.6 million) in public funds while gambling in Macau casinos.

• Daqing vice mayor Qian Dihua was also exposed to have illegally obtaining funds to buy cars and houses for each of his 29 mistresses.

• Former governor of Liaoning governor Bo Xilai was reported to have covered up some political corruption.<ref......
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