Former Qingdao legislature chief under investigation

Wang Wenhua, former director of the Standing Committee of the Qingdao Municipal People's Congress in Shandong province, is under disciplinary review and supervisory investigation over suspected serious violations of Party discipline and national laws, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced Thursday.

Wang, 68, is a native of Shanxi province. He previously worked in the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

In 2007, he was appointed deputy Party chief of the CPC Qingdao Municipal Committee. From March 2012 to April 2017, he served as director of the Standing Committee of the Qingdao Municipal People's Congress.

After stepping down from that post, Wang also served as a specially invited vice president of the China International Council for the Promotion of Multinational Corporations.