倒台前，薄熙来是政治局委员、重庆（有3000万人口的超级大都市）市委书记，也是中共中央政治局七常委的潜在人选之一。
Until his fall, Bo, a former Politburo member and party leader of Chongqing, a megacity of 30 million people, was a potential candidate for China’s ruling seven-member Politburo Standing Committee.