Foreign media are concerned that Chinese State Councilor Yang Jing has been dismissed for serious violations of discipline

China's top discipline inspection agency said on Feb. 24 that a former senior official was being investigated for corruption, the latest senior official to be removed from the job in an all-encompassing anti-corruption campaign.

Agence France-Presse reported on February 24 that Yang Jing served as secretary general of the State Council. Agence France-Presse quoted Xinhua as saying he had now been demoted for "serious violations of political discipline" and was placed on probation for a year after admitting his mistake.

According to the report, Yang Jing was accused of "long-term improper interaction with illegal business owners and illegal social personnel."

Yang Jing worked in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region for many years, then became the chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Government and later served as the director of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission. In 2013, he entered the State Department.

But at a five-year political conference in October 2017, he failed to win a place in the Central Committee, the Communist Party's top leadership.

According to a report on the website of Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao on February 25, Yang Jing, secretary of the Secretariat of the 18th CPC Central Committee, State Councilor of China and secretary general of the State Council, was filed and examined for serious violations of discipline, and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection recently announced that he would be placed on probation for one year, administratively dismissed from his post, and demoted to the rank of minister.

The Lianhe Zaobao quoted Xinhua News Agency as saying that Yang Jing seriously violated political discipline, political rules, and honest discipline, and had long-term improper contacts with illegal business owners and illegal social personnel, providing convenient conditions for the other party to use her position to influence illegal acts and seek huge private interests, and her relatives accepted each other's property and property.

However, Xinhua also reported that during the review, Yang Jing was "able to admit and repent of her mistakes."

According to Xinhua Viewpoint reported on the 24th, the Thirty-third Session of the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People's Congress decided to dismiss Comrade Yang Jing from his posts as state councilor and secretary general of the State Council at the request of the chairman's meeting.