Ex-Provincial Chief, Once In Charge of China’s Medical Reform, Caught in Corruption Probe

What’s new: The former Communist Party chief of Southwest China’s Guizhou province is being investigated for suspected “serious violations of discipline and law,” a common euphemism for corruption, according to a one-line statement published Monday by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the country’s top graft buster.

The Guizhou provincial party committee also held a meeting to announce the CCDI’s probe into Sun Zhigang, saying that Sun had “seriously tarnished the image of the party, seriously betrayed the trust of the party’s Central Committee and the people of the province, seriously damaged Guizhou’s good political ecology with a clean and upright atmosphere,” the party-run Guizhou Daily reported Tuesday.