Former Senior Provincial Legislator Ensnared in Graft Probe

What’s new: Li Jinzhu, a former senior legislator of Northwest China’s Shaanxi province and a coal industry veteran, has been placed under investigation by the country’s top graft watchdog.

Li, former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial People’s Congress, is suspected of “serious violations of (Communist Party) discipline and law,” the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a statement Monday, using a common euphemism for corruption.