Across China: Guizhou

Party expels advisor

A former top provincial political advisor in Southwest China's Guizhou province has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and his public office for corruption, the CPC's disciplinary department said yesterday.

Huang Yao, former chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, has been under investigation for "severe violations of discipline and law", according to the CPC's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the party's anti-graft body.