China’s disciplinary unit is investigating the head of State-owned Asset Supervision Administration Commission Jiang Jiemin for “severe disciplinary violations,” Financial Times reported, citing state-backed Xinhua News Agency. Jiang is the first minister-level figure to face such a probe since Xi Jinping became general secretary of the Communist Party in November. Xi had vowed to go after both “tigers and flies,” meaning top leaders and ordinary bureaucrats. The first public action against oil officials came last week when Xinhua reported that four executives at China National Petroleum Corporation had been placed under investigation.
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