What’s new: China’s top anti-corruption watchdog has placed Jiao Xiaoping, a deputy commander of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, under investigation.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said in a one-line statement Sunday that Jiao is suspected of “serious violations of discipline and law,” a common euphemism for corruption.
Jiao last appeared in public four days before the CCDI’s announcement, when he attended a corps administrative meeting on Wednesday, according to Bingtuan Daily. The newspaper is the official mouthpiece of the corps, an economic and quasi-military organization that fulfills governmental functions for regional development and administration in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region.
The background: Jiao was appointed deputy commander and a standing committee member of the corps’ party committee in June 2022.
The 56-year-old previously worked in several Ministry of Finance departments and served as deputy director of the ministry’s public-private partnership center. He has also done research on the low-carbon economy and the carbon trading market.
The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, also known as Xinjiang Bingtuan, was set up in 1954.
Contact reporter Kelly Wang (jingzhewang@caixin.com) and editor Michael Bellart (michaelbellart@caixin.com)
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