China Expels Former NDRC Secretary-General Over Bribery Allegations

China expelled Wu Hao, a former senior official at the country’s top economic-planning agency, from the Communist Party and public office and referred him to prosecutors on bribery allegations, the country’s top anticorruption watchdog said Wednesday.

Wu, 54 years old, is the former deputy Communist Party chief and director of the Innovation Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Before joining the academy-affiliated center in January 2025, he spent nearly three decades at the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), including as the commission’s secretary-general.