Senior electricity manager under investigation

A senior manager of China's State-owned electricity company is under investigation for alleged corruption amid an anti-graft campaign, according to a news report.

Zhu Changlin, director of the North China Power Grid Company under the State Grid Corporation of China, has been investigated on corruption allegations, canxin.com reported on Tuesday.

Zhu began his current post last year. Before that, he was director of the SGCC's Beijing company from 2009 to 2013 and director of the SGCC's Sichuan company from 2002 to 2009.

Sources said Zhu had connections with Li Chuncheng, a former Party chief of Sichuan province who was investigated in December 2012, and Guo Yongxiang, a former vice-governor of Sichuan province who was probed last year, the report said.

The SGCC, established in December 2002, is a State-owned enterprise that was ranked eighth in the Fortune Global 500 in 2010, according to the company's website.

The company's core businesses are the construction and operation of domestic power networks. Its service area represents 88 percent of the national territory, and it has more than 1,500,000 employees.

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