Female ex-Party official faces arrest

Prosecutors in Shanxi province have approved the arrest of Zhang Xiuping, a former deputy Party chief at Jinzhong, on suspicion of bribery, the Supreme People's Procuratorate announced on Thursday.

The case is still under investigation, according to a statement on the top procuratorate's website that gave no further details.

Four senior officials in Shanxi, including Zhang and another woman, Yang Xiaobo, were expelled from the Communist Party of China and removed from their posts for a "serious violation of discipline and laws", a euphemism for corruption, the province's anti-graft watchdog said on Wednesday. Yang was a former deputy Party chief and mayor of Gaoping, a county-level city.