The central anti-corruption watchdog body of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC) said on its website on September 17, that 48-year old Pan Yiyang, an Alternate Member of the CCP's 18th CC, Member of the Nei Mongol Communist Party's Standing Committee and Vice Governor of the Autonomous Region, is being probed on suspicion of violating discipline and law, an euphemism for graft. The inquiry  is apparently related to his work in the rare earth minerals industry.

 

Comment: Pan Yiyang is the fifth alternate member of the CCP's 18th Central Committee to become a victim of the campaign against corruption launched by CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping since late 2012.