Ex-senior officials removed for graft

Golf, banquets, bribes, reading improper books among misdeeds

Two senior officials have been expelled from the Communist Party of China and removed from public office over serious alleged lawbreaking, as well as violations of Party discipline, China's top anti-graft bodies said on Thursday.

Wang Xiaoguang, former vice-governor of Guizhou province and a long-serving member of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou CPC committee, and Zhang Shaochun, former vice-minister of the Ministry of Finance, were removed, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission said in a statement.