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Beijing

Ex-official expelled from CPC, office

Zhang Yujun, former assistant chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China and dismissed from public office for "severe disciplinary violations", the top anti-graft body said on Friday. Zhang was found to have seriously violated political and organizational discipline and attended banquets that could influence the fairness of official duties, according to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC.