Ex-official pleads guilty to bribery

Yang Dongliang, former head of the State Administration of Work Safety, pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and embezzling public funds at Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court on Thursday.

Yang was indicted on a charge of allegedly accepting bribes worth more than 28 million yuan ($4 million).

The prosecution alleged that Yang took advantage of his various posts from 2002 to 2015, such as vice-mayor of Tianjin and head of the State Administration of Work Safety, to seek benefits for others and accepted bribes.