Chinese provincial official probed for discipline violations

One official has been sacked and another is under investigation in central China's Hubei Province for discipline violations, local authorities said on Monday.

Lu Lijun, deputy director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Hubei, was removed from his post for a "serious violation of discipline", according to the website of the discipline watchdog of the provincial committee of the Communist Party.

Lu was also sacked from the party chief of the Hubei Qingneng real estate company.

The website also confirmed that Li Ping'an, deputy chief of the commerce bureau of Huanggang City, was being investigated for serious breach of party discipline.