Official dismissed for discipline violation

An official from China's top advisory body has been removed from his posts for a grave discipline violation, according to the Party's personnel agency.

Yang Gang, deputy director of the Committee for Economic Affairs of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, has been dismissed from his post, the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee announced on Monday.

On Friday, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC, the country's top anti-graft agency, announced Yang was being investigated for corruption.

Yang, 60, worked in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for 41 years. He was Party chief of the region's capital city Urumqi from 1999 to 2006 and deputy Party chief of the autonomous region from November 2006 to December 2010.

From 2002 to 2012, Yang was a candidate member of the CPC Central Committee, which has 205 members and around 170 candidate members who are mostly officials at or above the ministerial level.