Former Party chief of Guizhou stands trial for bribery

TIANJIN, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) — Sun Zhigang, former secretary of the Communist Party of China Guizhou Provincial Committee, stood trial for graft at the No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court of Tianjin in north China on Wednesday.
Sun, also formerly a deputy head of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress, was indicted for accepting bribes worth 813 million yuan (about 113.87 million U.S. dollars), according to prosecutors. ■