China Probes Top Official in City Where Mao Zedong Took Power
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China’s Communist Party said that it had begun a probe of the top official in Zunyi, the city where Chairman Mao Zedong emerged as its top leader in the 1930s, amid a nationwide corruption crackdown.
Liao Shaohua, the party secretary in Zunyi, a city in the southwestern Guizhou province, is being investigated for alleged “serious discipline violations,” according to a statement posted late yesterday on the website of the party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.