Senior official to take up post in academia

A senior Chinese official has been relieved of his position at the Communist Party of China Central Committee and will take a new position at Peking University.

Yu Keping, deputy director of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, said at a meeting on Wednesday that his resignation had been approved. There has yet to be an official announcement about his resignation from the bureau.

Yu will be appointed as director of Peking University's Politics Study Center, and he will also be dean of the University's School of Government.