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Faithful right-hand man Zhao Leji to lead Xi Jinping's new anti-corruption drive

Zhao Leji, Secretary of the Central Committee for Discipline Inspection of the CCP. © Jason Lee/Reuters

A former philosophy student from a family of journalists in Xi'an, Zhao Leji, now a senior civil servant and secretary of the Communist Party's central committee for discipline inspection, has been given the task of launching China's latest bureaucratic purge. [...] (887 words)

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