Another senior official in Guangdong province has been sacked and placed under investigation in the province's ongoing anti-corruption storm that has brought down top officials.
Liu Youjun, 46, head of the provincial labour and social security bureau, was removed from his position and put under shuanggui for 'severely violating party discipline', according to a statement published on the provincial disciplinary agency's official website yesterday.
Shuanggui is an internal disciplinary measure under which party members are detained and interrogated.
Mr Liu is the latest senior official to fall in the anti-corruption drive that started a month ago and has so far toppled the province's top political adviser, deputy police chief and a former top graft-buster.
Chen Shaoji, chairman of the Guangdong committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was detained and then dismissed by the party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection last month for 'severely violating party discipline'. Wang Huayuan, Guangdong's former top graft-buster who moved to Zhejiang in the same capacity three years ago, was also detained and dismissed.
Mr Wang and Mr Chen were leading members of the Guangdong provincial Communist Party standing committee in the late 1990s and the early years of this decade.
Zheng Shaodong, the vice-director of Guangdong's Public Security Bureau, was placed under internal supervision this year.