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1996 Beijing Cash Truck Robbery
The 1996 Beijing Cash Truck Robbery was an armed robbery that took place on February 8, 1996, at the Ganshiqiao ICBC bank branch located in Beijing. Event At 9:50 a.m. on February 8, 1996, the staff at the Ganshiqiao ICBC branch in Beijing had finished loading a secure box of bank notes into an armored car parked outside. A masked armed assailant then emerged from a nearby blue sedan and opened fire. A security guard and an armored car staff member were hit by bullets, both of whom died on the scene. The masked man then grabbed the box containing the bank notes and fled. The box contained 1,160,000 CNY in bank notes (approximately US$140,000 at contemporary exchange rates) Aftermath The suspected assailant was Lu Xianzhou (鹿宪州) a convicted criminal who had escaped from jail in 1994 after being imprisoned there for armed robbery. He got together with some gang members following his escape and went on a spree of robberies during the years 1994–1996. Following his success ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ICBC
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC; ) is a Chinese multinational bank. Founded as a limited company on 1 January 1984, ICBC is a state-owned commercial bank. With capital provided by the Ministry of Finance of China, the bank's Tier 1 capital in 2013 was the largest of one thousand global banks, being the first bank headquartered in China to achieve this distinction in modern history. Subsequently, ranked the largest bank in the world 2017 and 2018, by total assets, (31 December 2020, US$4.324 trillionFrancis Garrido & Saqib Chaudhry (2019) �The world's 100 largest banks published 5 April 2019 by S & P Global – accessed 8 February 2020), ICBC was positioned at 1st in The Bankers Top 1000 World Banks ranking, every year from 2012, and first (2019) on the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's biggest public companies. Furthermore, ICBC is considered one of the most profitable companies in the world, ranking fourth according to Forbes. It is considered a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing
} Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 million residents. It has an administrative area of , the third in the country after Guangzhou and Shanghai. It is located in Northern China, and is governed as a municipality under the direct administration of the State Council with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts.Figures based on 2006 statistics published in 2007 National Statistical Yearbook of China and available online at archive. Retrieved 21 April 2009. Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jingjinji megalopolis and the national capital region of China. Beijing is a global city and one of the world's leading centres for culture, diplomacy, politics, financ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fu Zhenghua
Fu Zhenghua (; born 13 March 1955) is a former Chinese politician and public security officer. In March 2013, Fu was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Public Security (minister-level) and Deputy Communist Party Secretary of the Ministry of Public Security. Since 2015, Fu has served concurrently as the head of the 610 Office. He was also appointed as the Minister of Justice in 2018. Fu was known to be a close ally of Sun Lijun, he has come under investigation in October 2021 and was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and removed from public office in March 2022. He was subsequently arrested, tried, and given a suspended death sentence. Early life and education Fu was born in Luan County, Hebei. In March 1955, he graduated from Peking University. Career Fu became involved in politics in December 1970, and he joined the Chinese Communist Party in September 1973. He had a career in the Beijing police (Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau) as an investigator. He took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, since 2012. Xi has also served as the president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 2013. The son of Chinese Communist veteran Xi Zhongxun, Xi was exiled to rural Yanchuan County as a teenager following his father's purge during the Cultural Revolution. He lived in a yaodong in the village of Liangjiahe, Shaanxi province, where he joined the CCP after several failed attempts and worked as the local party secretary. After studying chemical engineering at Tsinghua University as a worker-peasant-soldier student, Xi rose through the ranks politically in China's coastal provinces. Xi was governor of Fujian from 1999 to 2002, before becoming governor and party secretary of neighboring Zhejiang from 2002 to 2007. Following dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 In China
The following lists events from 1996 in China. Incumbents * Party General Secretary: Jiang Zemin * President: Jiang Zemin * Premier: Li Peng * Vice President: Rong Yiren * Vice Premier: Zhu Rongji Governors * Governor of Anhui Province – Hui Liangyu * Governor of Fujian Province – Chen Mingyi then He Guoqiang * Governor of Gansu Province – Zhang Wule then Sun Ying * Governor of Guangdong Province – Zhu Senlin then Lu Ruihua * Governor of Guizhou Province – Chen Shineng then Wu Yixia * Governor of Hainan Province – Ruan Chongwu * Governor of Hebei Province – Ye Liansong * Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Tian Fengshan * Governor of Henan Province – Ma Zhongchen * Governor of Hubei Province – Jiang Zhuping * Governor of Hunan Province – Yang Zhengwu * Governor of Jiangsu Province – Zheng Silin * Governor of Jiangxi Province – Shu Shengyou * Governor of Jilin Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
