What’s new: The health chief of South China’s Guangdong province has turned himself in to cooperate with a graft probe, according to a statement from the provincial commission for discipline inspection.
The brief statement said Zhu Hong, Communist Party chief and director of the Guangdong provincial health commission, is being investigated for “suspected serious violations of discipline and law” — a common euphemism for corruption — but provided no details about his wrongdoing.
The probe into Zhu comes less than a month after Guangdong’s graft busters said they had begun investigating Chen Yuansheng, former director of the provincial health and family planning commission, as part of an unprecedented nationwide crackdown on corruption in the health care industry that began earlier this year.
The background: A native of the eastern province of Zhejiang, Zhu was born in 1966 and began his career in 1982.
He also served in positions including as vice president and party secretary of Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University and director of the Guangdong provincial medical academic exchange center.
Contact reporter Wang Xintong (xintongwang@caixin.com) and editor Jonathan Breen (jonathanbreen@caixin.com)
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