What’s new: A former vice chairman of the government of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in South China has fallen under graft probe, authorities announced.
Qin Rupei, also former member of the standing committee of the region’s Communist Party committee, is being investigated by the country’s top graft buster, according to a statement from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Tuesday.
Qin’s last appeared in public on April 10, when he met with a senior official of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Guangxi’s capital Nanning, according to the regional government.
The background: Qin, 61, previously worked for over three decades in his home province of Guizhou in Southwest China. He was the deputy party secretary of provincial capital Guiyang from 2003 to 2006 and later served as party secretary of prefecture-level city Bijie, before becoming deputy governor of Guizhou in 2012.
Qin was transferred to neighboring Guangxi in 2018 and was vice chairman of the regional government until January 2023. He remained party chief of the region’s state-owned asset supervision and administration commission.
Several officials in both regions have been caught recently in the country’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign, including Sun Zhigang, former Communist Party chief of Guizhou, and Zhang Xiulong, ex-vice chairman of the standing committee of the regional people’s congress of Guangxi
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