Du Shicheng (File Photo)   Dec. 24 - Du Shicheng, vice-secretary of Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), has been sacked for "serious discipline violation".

 

Du was also suspended from the post of secretary of the Qingdao Municipal CPC Committee in Shandong, an economically developed province in east China.

 

Yan Qijun, president of the Shangdong federation of trade unions, has been appointed new party chief of the booming coastal city of Qingdao.

 

The CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection is investigating into Du's case.