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Other senior officials investigated since November:

July 6: Li Daqiu, vice-chairman of the Guangxi committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

June 30: Wang Suyi, former head of the United Front Work Department in the Party's Inner Mongolia committee

June 23: Guo Yongxiang, head of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circle's branch in Sichuan province.

June 4: Ni Fake, deputy governor of Anhui province

May 14: Liu Tienan, vice-minister of the National Development and Reform Commission

January: Wu Yongwen, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Hubei province

Jan 17: Yi Junqing, head of the Party's Central Compilation and Translation Bureau

Dec 13: Li Chuncheng, deputy Party chief of Sichuan province

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