Anti-Corruption Campaign in China Steamrolls On, Targeting Officials in Northeastern Region

Anti-Corruption Campaign in China Steamrolls On, Targeting Officials in Northeastern Region
War veterans and local residents watch Chinese leader Xi Jinping give an address at the 19th National Congress on television, at a bookstore in Shenyang City in China's northeastern Liaoning Province on October 18, 2017.STR/AFP/Getty Images
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Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign has felled another high-level official.
On Dec. 12, the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption agency announced that Zhang Jiehui, a high-ranking cadre in the Hebei provincial rubber-stamp legislature, is being investigated for “seriously violating Party discipline,” an oft-used euphemism for corruption.
Annie Wu
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Annie Wu joined the full-time staff at the Epoch Times in July 2014. That year, she won a first-place award from the New York Press Association for best spot news coverage. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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