Officials punished for vaccine scandal

Xi urges thorough probe at Standing Committee meeting

More than 40 government officials, including seven at the provincial level, have been held accountable for a substandard vaccines scandal at Changchun Changsheng Biotech Co, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided at a meeting on Thursday.

The meeting, presided over by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, also called for improving the long-term oversight mechanism for vaccine production while firmly upholding the bottom line of public safety and safeguarding people's health.