By Li Hongmei
China removed Jiang Jiemin as head of the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), with the commission pledging support for a probe into its former director.
Jiang, 57, was removed on suspicion of "serious disciplinary violations," Xinhua News Agency reported today, citing the Communist Party's Organization Department. That follows the Sept. 1 announcement that Jiang, a former chairman of China National Petroleum Corp., was under investigation.
In a statement dated yesterday and posted on its website, SASAC's Party Committee said it "firmly supports" the probe into Jiang. SASAC will "unswervingly carry out anti-corruption work," the committee said in the statement after meeting with officials from the party's Organization Department on the afternoon of Sept. 1. "It will continue to promote the reform and adjustment of central enterprises," said the statement.
President Xi Jinping has warned that corruption posed a grave threat to the Party and stressed that the battle against corruption must target both "tigers and flies".
SASAC's statement just echoed the line, with the commission's leadership vowing to "attack both tigers and flies" and build a system resistant to corruption.
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