Banker with a well-heeled foot in two camps

Ma Weihua does not look like China鈥檚 best-paid commercial banker and one of the richest Communist party delegates to the National People鈥檚 Congress, the Chinese law-making body meeting this week in Beijing.

Clad in a checked coat and turtleneck sweater, Mr Ma looks more like a middle-ranking official than a top banker earning as much as $1m (拢518,000) a year.

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Mr Ma embodies the wary melding of interests between the party and business, as both attempt to circle each other鈥檚 domains. 字串8

The dual role carries no contradictions for Mr Ma, who is used to hybrid structures as president of China Merchants Bank, the country鈥檚 sixth largest lender, an institution he says is 鈥渕arketised but not privatised鈥