What’s new: A former vice chairperson of a top provincial political consultative body in East China has fallen under graft probe, the country’s top graft busters announced.
Wang Hao, 59, is being investigated for suspected “serious violations of discipline and law,” the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a one-line statement Monday. The phrase is a common euphemism for corruption.
Wang’s last public appearance was on May 9, when he attended a chairpersons’ meeting of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), according to the authorities’ website.
The background: Wang, a native of Anhui province, spent his entire career in the neighboring Jiangsu after graduating from Nanjing University as a philosophy major in 1987.
For the first three decades of his career, he moved up from a clerk at Xuzhou’s publicity department to the city’s CPPCC chairperson. He was then transferred to Suqian, where he was named mayor in 2019 and then party chief in 2020.
In addition to Wang, three other former mayors or party secretaries of Suqian have come under corruption probes since the city was established in 1996. They include Miao Ruilin, who later became a deputy governor in Jiangsu, and Qiu He, former deputy party secretary of Yunnan province.
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