Two NPC Members Detained at Hotels after Legislature's Meeting Ends

(Beijing) – Two men who were attending the annual session of the National People's Congress in the capital were detained amid corruption probes right after the legislative meeting ended on March 15.

Less than an hour after the NPC closed with a press conference held by Premier Li Keqiang, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said on its website that Qiu He, the deputy Communist Party head of Yunnan Province and a member of the legislature, had become the subject of an inquiry into "serious discipline and law violations."