Xi Jinping aide, Yang Xiaodu, to head China’s anti-corruption ‘super agency’
Yang Xiaodu appointed at the National People’s Congress. His boss at the Communist Party’s anti-graft body was tipped to take the post
A Communist Party deputy anti-corruption chief and President Xi Jinping’s trusted aide has been appointed head of China’s controversial new super anti-graft agency.
Yang Xiaodu’s nomination as chief of the new National Supervisory Commission, which was endorsed by the National People’s Congress on Sunday, has surprised some political observers.
The super commission merges the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and several other government anti-graft departments. It places the new agency close to the cabinet and gives it a higher status than the nation’s Supreme Court and top prosecutors office.
There was speculation that the head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and member of the Politburo Standing Committee, Zhao Leji, might double up to head the new agency.
Yang, 64, a deputy to Zhao at the CCDI, comes from Shanghai and worked in Tibet for 25 years before returning to his home city. He crossed paths with Xi when the latter was Shanghai party boss in 2007.
