{"id":21053,"date":"2025-09-29T03:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21053"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:05:02","slug":"china-sentences-former-agricultural-minister-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21053","title":{"rendered":"China sentences former agricultural minister to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>China&#8217;s former agricultural minister was sentenced to death on Sunday on corruption charges, with a two-year reprieve, a court statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Tang Renjian accepted cash and property bribes totalling more than 268 million yuan ($38 million) between 2007 and 2024, the People&#8217;s Court of Changchun in northeast Jilin province said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled that the bribes &#8220;caused particularly severe losses to the interests of the state and the people, and therefore warranted the death penalty&#8221;, adding that Tang had confessed to his crimes and expressed remorse.<\/p>\n<p>Tang&#8217;s sentencing is the latest in President Xi Jinping&#8217;s sweeping anti-graft campaign that has brought down several high-level figures.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of Xi&#8217;s anti-corruption drive say the campaign promotes clean governance, but critics argue it provides the president with the power to purge political rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Tang previously served as governor of the northwestern province of Gansu, as well as the vice chairman of southern autonomous region Guangxi.<\/p>\n<p>His downfall follows similar graft investigations into former defence ministers Li Shangfu and Wei Fenghe. AFP<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s former agricultural minister was sentenced to death on Sunday on corruption charges, with a two-year reprieve, a court statement said. Tang Renjian accepted cash and property bribes totalling more than 268 million yuan ($38 million) between 2007 and 2024, the People&#8217;s Court of Changchun in northeast Jilin province said in a statement. The court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}