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China: Deputy propaganda chief investigated for corruption

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China said on Friday that a deputy propaganda chief was being investigated on suspicion of corruption as President Xi Jinping has been waging a campaign against corruption for years.

Zhang Jianchun, deputy head of the Central Propaganda Department, is being investigated on suspicion of “serious disciplinary and legal violations.”

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China said on Friday that a deputy propaganda chief was being investigated on suspicion of corruption as President Xi Jinping has been waging a campaign against corruption for years.

Zhang Jianchun, a deputy head of the central propaganda department, is being investigated for “suspected serious disciplinary and legal violations,” the ruling Communist Party’s anti-corruption agency said, using an official euphemism for alleged corruption.

The one-line statement did not provide any details about Zhang’s alleged crimes.

He is one of the highest-ranking officials in the top-secret department tasked with spreading the ideology of the ruling Communist Party and censoring China’s tightly controlled media.

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Zhang, 59, comes from the eastern province of Shandong and, according to an official biography, rose to prominence in an important party position in the capital Beijing.

He joined the Organisation Department – ​​a powerful body that oversees nationwide party appointments – in 2016 and rose to the rank of deputy chief before taking on his most recent role in 2020.

Xi, China’s most powerful leader in decades, has waged a tireless battle against deep-rooted corruption since taking office more than a decade ago.

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