Ex-Chongqing official expelled from Party

He Ting, a former official in Chongqing, has been demoted and expelled from the Communist Party of China for serious disciplinary violations, the country's top anti-corruption watchdog said on Monday.

He, 55, former director of the Chongqing Public Security Bureau and former deputy mayor, will no longer have a leadership role and was ordered into early retirement, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said.

The standard age for a vice-ministerial-level official to retire from a leadership role is 60.