After investigations revealing illegal involvement in crypto mining activities and other abuses of power, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) expelled a high ranking provincial official.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) alleged that Xiao Yi, former vice-chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference from Jiangxi province abused his state-backed administrative powers to undermine the political principle of “two maintenance,” which relates to CCP’s notion of firmly maintaining the authority of the party: