
What’s new: Li Jinzhu, a former senior legislator of Northwest China’s Shaanxi province and a coal industry veteran, pleaded guilty to charges of accepting bribes totaling more than 430 million yuan ($59.3 million).
Prosecutors in Guangzhou accused Li, a former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial People’s Congress, of accepting bribes between 2004 and 2023 in exchange for favors in business operations and official promotion.