Head of CNBG stripped of post

Yang Xiaoming, the chairman of China National Pharmaceutical Group's vaccine subsidiary China National Biotec Group, has been stripped of his NPC deputy post due to serious discipline and law violations.

Sinopharm CNBG was the developer of the Beijing Institute of Biological Products Co Ltd (BIBP) COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic.

Yang is also the chief scientist of the vaccine project under China's 863 program.