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Senior provincial official dismissed after disciplinary probe

Xinhua, April 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

A senior political advisor from southwest China's Guizhou Province has been dismissed from his administrative posts for "severe disciplinary violations," the anti-graft authority said Tuesday.

Kong Lingzhong, vice chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), "severely violated political codes of conduct and resisted organizational investigation, the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a statement, citing the results of its investigation into Kong.

Kong allegedly participated in trips, gym programs and banquets arranged by owners of private companies, and took advantage of his posts to seek benefits for himself and his relatives' businesses, it added.

Kong has also been placed on a one-year probation within the CPC. Endi