Bloomberg news
written by Staff
Monday May 13, 2013
China’s Communist Party fired a vice chairman of the economic planning agency for “severe disciplinary violations,” after a Chinese journalist posted allegations online that he had improper business dealings.
Liu Tienan, 58, who was also head of China’s National Energy Administration until March, lost his post at the National Reform and Development Commission, the official Xinhua News Agency reported in a one-sentence release, citing the party’s Organization Department.
The dismissal adds to evidence that President Xi Jinping is pressing ahead with an anti-corruption campaign announced when he became general secretary of the Communist Party in November. He warned at the time that a failure to contain graft could lead the party to lose power.
Liu came under the spotlight in December when Luo Changping, deputy managing editor of Caijing Magazine, made the allegations against him in microblog posts. Liu is the first minister-level official to be investigated based on corruption claims circulated online, the state-run China Daily newspaper said in an editorial today before Xinhua announced his dismissal.
The investigation into Liu “is a fresh sign of the new leadership’s zero tolerance toward corruption and its vow to hold violators accountable no matter who they are,” the newspaper said.
Liu was one of 11 vice chairmen at the NDRC, the successor to the country’s Soviet-era planning agency that oversees everything from highway projects to bond sales. The party’s disciplinary body announced via Xinhua on May 12 that Liu was under investigation.
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