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China provincial legislator under investigation

Xinhua, April 11, 2017 Adjust font size:

Yang Chongyong, a senior legislator in north China's Hebei Province, is being investigated for "severe disciplinary violations," the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said Tuesday.

Yang has been vice head of the Hebei Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee since 2016. Prior to that, he had served as vice governor of Hebei for eight years. Endi