Controversies

Former CPI/SPIC Deputy General Manager Xia Zhong Under CCDI Review and Investigation

On March 23, 2023, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Xia Zhong, former member of the Party Group and deputy general manager of State Power Investment Corporation (formed by the merger of China Power Investment Corporation and State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation), and then deputy secretary of the Party Committee and vice chairman of the China Electricity Council, was suspected of serious discipline and law violations and accepted review and investigation by the discipline inspection and supervision group stationed at the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and the Panjin Municipal Supervisory Commission of Liaoning Province. Xia Zhong spent many years in the CPI system in his early career, having served as general manager of CPI Group's Northwest Company and chief infrastructure engineer of the group. A total of six central state-owned enterprise leaders were announced to be under investigation that day. Progress: investigation opened. Entity involved: Xia Zhong (former deputy general manager of SPIC). Related scope: CPI/SPIC group.