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Jiang Jiemin is a Chinese economic official who was, until September 2013, head of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of the State Council. He is also the former Chairman of PetroChina and ex-General Manager of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). He previously served as Vice-Governor of Qinghai Province. In September it was announced that he was under investigation by China's Communist Party for "suspected serious disciplinary violations".
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Jiang Jiemin, the head of the country's biggest oil and gas producer, has been picked to lead a ministry-level agency that oversees about 70 trillion yuan (HK$87 trillion) of non-financial state assets.
