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Senior provincial legislator in NW China removed from post

Xinhua, January 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

Lu Wucheng, a senior legislator of northwest China's Gansu Province has been removed from post for suspected "serious discipline and law violations."

The decision was made by the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee on Thursday.

Lu, deputy head of the Standing Committee of the Gansu Provincial People's Congress, had been placed under graft investigation, the CPC's discipline agency announced on Jan. 23. Enditem