China’s Former Industry Minister Expelled From Communist Party

What’s new: Xiao Yaqing, a former minister overseeing China’s industry and technology development, was expelled from the Communist Party for bribery, the country’s top graft buster said.

Xiao, the minister of industry and information technology from 2020 to July this year, was accused of “accepting banquet invitations that might have affected the fair execution of his official duties” and “taking a large amount of cash bribes,” the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said Monday in a statement.