Former Xinjiang official under investigation

Li Pengxin, former deputy secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Communist Party of China, is suspected of serious violations of Party discipline and State laws and is undergoing disciplinary review and investigation by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, the two bodies said in a statement released on Monday.

Li, 63, is a native of Shanxi province. He started his career in 1977 and joined the Party in 1984.

He worked in Northwest China's Qinghai province from 1977 to 2011, in positions that included being Party chief of Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan autonomous prefecture and the head of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the CPC Qinghai provincial committee.

From October 2011 to September 2016, he served as the head of the Organization Department of the CPC committee in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

He later started working in Xinjiang, serving as deputy secretary of its CPC committee and head of Xinjiang's education work committee till July 2021.