China investigates top provincial official for corruption

Worldwide, Daily news | | December 5, 2012 12:30

China’s Communist Party has begun a corruption inquiry into a top official in the southwestern province of Sichuan, state media reported on Wednesday, the most senior person to be investigated since Xi Jinping became the party’s leader.

Sichuan’s deputy party boss, Li Chuncheng, was being investigated by the party’s discipline watchdog, according to several reports, including one from the official Xinhua news agency, citing the Youth Daily’s online edition.
New party chief Xi warned last month at one of his first major meetings since taking on new role that if corruption was allowed to run wild, then the Communist Party risked major unrest and the collapse of its rule.
Li had served in Sichuan since 1998 and had been party chief of its prosperous provincial capital, Chengdu. He was only appointed the province’s deputy party boss in September of last year.
Li was also elected onto the party’s Central Committee, a ruling council with about 200 full members and 170 or so alternate members, at last month’s congress as an alternate member.
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