Graft probes leave province 300 short
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A CORRUPTION crackdown in north China鈥檚 Shanxi Province has left the government with almost 300 jobs to fill, including several senior positions.
Coal-rich Shanxi has emerged as one of the frontlines in President Xi Jinping鈥檚 battle against deep-seated graft, with Vice Premier Ma Kai earlier this month describing the problem there as 鈥渓ike a cancer.鈥
Shanxi鈥檚 top official, Party boss Wang Rulin, said there were nearly 300 vacancies in the provincial government, including three city Party chiefs, 16 county Party chiefs and 13 county heads, Xinhua news agency said.
The province punished 15,450 officials in 2014, including seven from the top leadership, the report said.
The government and the Party can find it hard to fill posts.
Xinhua said that Shanxi had managed to appoint several senior officials to help plug the gap. It said that this was 鈥渁 major step in rebuilding the province鈥檚 corruption-plagued officialdom.鈥
The appointments include several city officials and county heads in the provice鈥檚 Luliang City, as well as officials in the province鈥檚 transport department, according to an announcement by the provincial government.
The appointments were the first of their kind after the installment of the province鈥檚 new party leadership last September, Xinhua reported.
President Xi has vowed to take down high-flying 鈥渢igers鈥 as well as lowly 鈥渇lies鈥 in an ever widening war against graft.
Shanxi, as one of China鈥檚 top coal producing provinces, has seen its economy boom on the back of soaring energy demand over the past decade, one of the reasons for its pervasive corruption problem.
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