China’s Communist Party expels Bo Xilai protégé in corruption probe aftermath

Retired food official Xu Ming to face graft charges but it is not known if his case is related to disgraced former mentor

Xu also accused of being disloyal to the party and making inappropriate comments on key policies

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Xu Ming, a former vice-director of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, will face corruption charges. Photo: Handout

Published: 9:00pm, 24 Jan 2022Updated: 5:32pm, 15 Apr 2022

Xu Ming, a retired food reserves official and a long-time protégé of one of President Xi Jinping’s former rivals, has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party and will face corruption charges.

Six months after the announcement of an investigation into Xu, the party’s anti-graft body, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, said on Sunday that it had concluded.

The CCDI accused Xu of taking money in return for favours for businesspeople, including his son.

Evidence of the crimes had been handed over to prosecutors, the CCDI said.

Before retiring in 2018, Xu was vice-director of the National Food Administration, which was merged with another office that year and renamed the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration.

The CCDI also accused him of being disloyal to the party, making “inappropriate comments on key policies”, as well as continuing to take bribes after 2012, the year Xi took the party’s helm.

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