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QINGHAI

Senior Qinghai legislator under probe

Li Jiexiang, a vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of Qinghai Provincial People's Congress, is under investigation for suspected severe violations of Party discipline and laws, according to the country's top anti-graft agency on Thursday. Li, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, is being investigated by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.

TIANJIN

Chinese distillation pioneer dies at 100

China's chemical distillation pioneer and wellknown chemical industry expert, Yu Guocong, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 100 in Tianjin. Yu was the pioneer of modern industrial distillation technology in China. He developed heavy-water separation technology, laying the foundation for China's nuclear industry. Yu's distillation technology was also widely applied in China's chemical engineering industry. He carried out research on the technology of large industrial distillation towers, which promoted the leap-forward development of China's petrochemical industry. Yu also made several achievements in the fields of gas-liquid interface and computational transmission. Yu was born in November 1922 in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. He graduated from Southwest Associated University in 1943. In 1991, Yu was elected as an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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