Ex-State Asset Regulator in China’s Coal Heartland Targeted in Graft Probe

What’s new: A retired former director of the provincial-level state assets regulator in Shanxi is being investigated by local anti-graft agencies, as China deepens its crackdown on corruption in one of the country’s largest coal centers.

Zhu Xiaoming, also former director of the economic committee of the provincial political advisory body, is suspected of “serious violations of discipline and law,” a common euphemism for corruption, according to a Wednesday statement from the Shanxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection.