Ex-official will soon face trial on bribery charges

A former vice governor in northeast China will soon go on trial for taking bribes, Beijing prosecutors said today.

Tian Xueren, 66, former executive vice governor of Jilin Province and former member of the Jilin Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, was investigated by disciplinary inspectors for severe violations in late 2011.

He was removed from his post and expelled from the Party in July 2012 after China's top disciplinary watchdog found he accepted huge bribes.

His case was then sent to prosecutors.

Tian was appointed executive vice provincial governor of Jilin in 2004.