Politics of Hengyang

One mayor and three CCP Committee Secretaries has been placed under investigation by the Chinese Communist Party's internal control body, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).

[1] On December 8, 2013, Chen Anzhong was dismissed, arrested and investigated for corruption by the CCDI.

He is the first prefecture-level official in Hengyang sacked for graft since Xi Jinping's continues an anti-graft dragnet at all levels of government, military and ruling Communist Party.

[4] In April 2016, Li Yilong was put under investigation for alleged "serious violations of discipline and laws."

[5][6] On November 8, 2016, Zhang Wenxiong was put under investigation for alleged "serious violations of discipline", the CCDI said in a statement on its website, without elaborating.