The headline event was the purge of Bo Xilai, the ambitious party chief in Chongqing province.
Critics say it is little more than a vehicle for ambitious party barons, most of whom despise each other.
There can be few ambitious party high-ups in the UK who would have so willingly taken such a politically suicidal step.
But for a smart, ambitious party girl who enjoyed the spotlight, being cast on a New York society show a few years ago made perfect sense.
Wang became known nationally for leading a crackdown on organised crime in Chongqing at the behest of the city's ambitious party secretary, Bo Xilai.
The rumours around Wang Lijun's sudden disappearance from public life are an unwelcome development for his patron, Chongqing's ambitious party secretary, Bo Xilai.
Mr Wang also serves as a deputy mayor under the city's ambitious party boss, Bo Xilai, who may join the all-powerful standing committee of the Politburo this year.
He also offered the strongest official response yet to the scandal surrounding Bo Xilai, the ambitious party secretary of the Chongqing metropolis who spearheaded a much-publicized crackdown on corruption with the city's police chief at the time, Wang Lijun.
An ambitious Party loyalist, Paul Ryan, is reluctant to run for Boehner's chair because the House Republicans are the new Wild Bunch and, as a friend of Ryan's put it to Politico, "he's not a f — ing moron".
Many took that as a jab at Bo Xilai, the ambitious party secretary of the Chongqing municipality who has pushed to revive Maoist culture and is often portrayed as Mr. Wang's rival.
