China’s Ex-Chief of Food and Drug Watchdog Stripped of Political Advisory Post Amid Anti-Corruption Purge

Bi Jingquan, the fifth minister-level official subjected to removal this year, was purged from China’s top political advisory body.

A man talks on the phone near a sign for the reception office of China's Food and Drug Administration in Beijing on May 17, 2016. Damir Sagolj/ Reuters

China expelled Bi Jingquan, former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, from its top political advisory body on June 25, amid an anti-corruption purge that continues to zero in on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials.

Bi was removed from his positions as a member of the standing committee and deputy director of the Economic Affairs Committee at the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), according to a statement published on the CPPCC’s website.