Mayor and acting party chief Huang Xingguo is being probed for “serious disciplinary violations,” the top anti-graft agency said Saturday, using a euphemism for corruption. The post was already among the most closely watched as President Xi Jinping reassigns provincial posts ahead the party congress in 2017. Huang’s case pointed to jostling going on before the party congress, Qiao said. ‘Protective umbrella’Huang was party chief of the port city of Ningbo in 2002, when Xi began a five-year stint in the Zhejiang leadership, first as governor and then party secretary. The city now lacks a party secretary, mayor and public security chief, with the last occupant of the latter position detained in July 2014.

Source: Thanhnien News September 12, 2016 02:15 UTC