In the run-up to the party Congress, the sacking saga continues in China with the Communist party leadership in an overdrive to weed out corrupt and inefficient elements.

Amongst the latest to face the axe is Chen Jiadong, former director of the Standing Committee of the Xiamen Municipal People’s Congress in Fujian Province. He has been expelled from the party and dismissed from public office for “serious violations of discipline and the law”, says the disciplinary authority in a post on its website.

Another official, who met a similar fate is Sun Guoxiang, a deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People’s Congress.

Chen has been charged with nepotism, selfishness, favourtism, fraud, abuse of power, and embezzlement of state -owned assets. Other charges range from    polluting political ecology to   engaging in in superstitious activities.

“Chen Jiadong seriously violated the party’s political discipline, organizational discipline, honesty discipline, work discipline, and life discipline, constituting a serious violation of official duties and suspected of accepting bribes,” the state-owned Xinhua news agency reported quoting the disciplinary authorities.

Sun Guoxiang is charged with “a weak sense of discipline and law’ and accepting huge amounts of money as bribes.

“He regards public power as a tool for grabbing private interests, engages in power and money transactions, uses his position to facilitate the acquisition of bank loans and special funds for others, and illegally accepts huge amounts of money”, the chargesheet read.

Sun Guoxiang stands accused of seriously violating the party’s political discipline, organizational discipline, and honest discipline, constituting a serious violation of official duties###