Director's financial woes lead to action
A senior Ministry of Land and Resources official has been disciplined by the Communist Party for corruption as a crackdown on graft continues.
Lu Guoping , director of the ministry's administration office, was put under shuanggui, a party disciplinary action, on Friday because of his 'economic problems', an official source said.
No details of the scale of the problems were mentioned.
Mr Lu, a 44-year-old geologist, had a promising career with a decade of experience in the ministry, the source said.
He used to be head of the ministry's research unit and a deputy director of the administration office.
The ministry is in charge of the planning and management of land-use rights as well as mineral and oceanic resources. It has the authority to allot the mainland's limited amount of land to meet demand from a booming property sector and sizzling economic development.