What’s new: Wang Zhongping, former party chief and ex-director of the medical security bureau of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, has been placed under investigation by anti-graft authorities amid a ramped-up crackdown on corruption in health care.
In a one-line statement Tuesday, the Guangxi regional arm of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said Wang is suspected of “serious violations of (Communist Party) discipline and law,” a common euphemism for graft.
The background: The 60-year-old is one of three officials since 2018 to have served as head of a provincial-level medical security bureau but fallen from grace in a long-running anti-graft campaign. That year, the central government undertook its once-every-five-year institutional reform that established a medical security bureau at the national level.
The other two fallen officials are Yu Luming and Gao Peng, former directors of the medical security bureaus of Beijing and the Tibet autonomous region, respectively.
China’s anti-graft campaign also ensnared more than 20 hospital heads and party chiefs in the first two months of the year, most of whom were investigated or expelled from the party or public office for suspected corruption.
Contact reporter Wang Xintong (xintongwang@caixin.com) and editor Leila Hashemi (leilahashemi@caixin.com)
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