Former senior political advisor on trial for corruption

NANNING - A former senior political advisor pled guilty to graft in a court case in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, south China, which began on Tuesday.

It is alleged that Yang Baohua, former vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, accepted bribes, the intermediate people's court of Guilin city said.

Yang is accused of accepting about 13.6 million yuan (about $2.22 million) between 1996 and 2014, according to the indictment from the people's procuratorate of Guilin.

The bribes were in the form of cash and gifts and were accepted either personally by Yang, or through his relatives or other people, to secure project contracts and other economic profits.

Yang served as Communist Party of China chief in the cities of Yueyang, and Changsha, which are both in Hunan province, before rising to the position of vice chairman.

The court has been adjourned until it reaches a verdict.