Chinese authorities hold China Mobile provincial leader

The head of China Mobile’s Guangdong province operations, Xu Long, was detained along with his wife on Friday by provincial authorities for alleged wrongdoings, South China Morning Post reported, citing a China News Services story on Monday. “Xu’s detention was ordered by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection … a sign that his case is quite severe,” another newspaper, China Business News, quoted a source close to the Communist Party’s graft watchdog saying. Gao Zhixing, a deputy general manager of subsidiary Guangdong Mobile, was presiding over the company’s operations.