3 senior officials plowed under anti-graft drive in 3 weeks
Staff Reporter 2013-07-08 12:43
Li Daqiu. (Photo/Xinhua)
A senior official from southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous District has become the third vice-ministerial-level official in as many weeks to be probed by the Communist Party's sweeping anti-graft campaign, reports Duowei News, an outlet run by overseas Chinese.
Chinese state-media announced Saturday that Li Daqiu, vice-chairman of the Guangxi Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the Guangxi Federation of Trade Unions, was being investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for "suspected disciplinary violations" — a code word for corruption.
Li is the third vice-ministerial-level official to be taken down in the last three weeks following Guo Yongxiang, chairman of Sichuan's provincial federation of literary and art circles, on June 23, and Wang Suyi, chief of the United Front Work Department in the northern region of Inner Mongolia, on June 30.
The 59-year-old Li, an economics graduate from the Central Party School by correspondence, was last seen in public in mid-june conducting a survey in Guangxi's Bai'se city.
Including Li, there have now been six vice-ministerial-level officials probed by China's top corruption watchdog since the 18th National Congress last November, when Xi Jinping was appointed the general secretary of the Communist Party. The recent investigations into high-ranking officials have generated optimism that Xi is indeed serious about his vow to crack down on corrupt officials regardless of whether they are high-ranking "tigers" or low ranking "flies."
