The regional people's congress of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous
Region, in south China, has announced the dismissal of Sun Yu from
the post of vice chairman of Guangxi regional government.
The decision was made on Friday at the 29th meeting of the
Standing Committee of Guangxi's 10th People's Congress.
The 50-year old official, from Zhuang ethnic group, took the
vice chairman post in January 1998.
According to the Chinese magazine of Caijing, Sun
received bribery worth 400 million yuan (US$54 million) during the
construction of a major flood-control and water conservation
project over the past three years.
Before the case of Sun, Guangxi had reported a series of
corruption cases since 1999, involving former regional chairman
Cheng Kejie and former vice chairmen Xu Bingsong and Liu Zhibing.
Cheng received death sentence, and Xu and Liu had life imprisonment
and 15 years in prison respectively.
(Xinhua News Agency December 2, 2007)