The U.S. Senate voted on granting China permanent normal trade relations status, with McConnell casting a "yes" vote, paving the way for China's accession to the WTO.
After the Yuanhua case broke out in 2000, Lai Changxing fled to Canada and hid for many years.
In an exclusive interview with 'Chinese Children' (Zhonghua Ernü), Xi Jinping stated that despite the difficulty of joining the Party, he wrote eight applications for the Youth League and ten for the Party, believing that joining the League and the Party was more important than getting into Tsinghua.