Party expelled three former senior officials

BEIJING - The Communist Party of China (CPC) expelled three former senior officials on Wednesday, according to the Party's disciplinary watchdog said.

Zhang Tianxin, former Party secretary of Kunming, capital city of Yunnan, was stripped of his CPC membership and demoted, "for dereliction of duty which led to losses of state assets, and for taking advantage of his position for personal gains", according to the CPC Central Commission for Discipline and Inspection (CCDI).

Zhang's profits from his improper activities will be confiscated, it added.

Zhao Zhiyong, a former senior official in East China's Jiangxi province, has been stripped of Party membership for serious discipline violation, the discipline watchdog of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said Wednesday.

The CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said in a statement that Zhao was found to have taken advantage of his position to seek personal interests.

Zhao was removed earlier from his posts as a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Jiangxi Provincial Committee and secretary-general of the CPC Jiangxi Provincial Committee.

Zhao has been been demoted to the level of staff member and his properties gained improperly have been confiscated, the CCDI said.

Mao Xiaobing, former party chief of northwest Chinese city of Xining, was expelled from the Communist Party of China and dismissed from public office for graft probe, said the Party discipline inspection agencyWednesday.

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