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Adviser disqualified at CPPCC meeting

Zhu Mingguo, former chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was disqualified Friday as a member of the CPPCC National Committee. The decision was made at the 23rd chairman and chairpersons' meeting of the 12th CPPCC National Committee. In late November, it was announced that Zhu was under investigation for suspected "serious discipline and law violations".