Top adviser in Guangdong faces probe

The top political adviser in Guangdong province is being investigated for serious violations of Party discipline, according to a statement released on the website of the Party's top anti-graft body on Friday.

Zhu Mingguo, chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, has become the second senior Party and government official to be investigated in Guangdong in six months, following Wan Qingliang, former Party chief of Guangzhou.

Insiders said Zhu's case will raise concerns at home and abroad and rock the political arena in prosperous Guangdong, a window of reform and opening-up to the outside world.