Xinjiang propaganda official Ren Hua under corruption cloud in China
- Communist Party anti-graft watchdog says Ren suspected of ‘discipline and law violations’
- Announcement about cadre comes a day after she appears on TV presiding over education meeting
China’s top anticorruption watchdog is investigating a senior cadre in charge of propaganda and education in the far western region of Xinjiang.
Holding the rank of vice-minister, Ren is the first “tiger”, or senior official, in Xinjiang to be targeted by the CCDI this year.
Just one day before the announcement, Ren appeared on Xinjiang TV in her capacity as party chief of the region’s education department, presiding over a meeting on strengthening the party’s leadership of Xinjiang’s education system.
Ren has been deputy chairwoman of the region since January 2018 as well as being the deputy propaganda director of the party’s Xinjiang committee and deputy party chief of its culture department.
In June 2016, she was appointed deputy leader of a central government inspection team to audit the party’s International Liaison Department and the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, a major foreign affairs organisation that aims to cultivate “people to people exchanges”. The assignment lasted for four months.