On August 22, minister-level of- ficial Li Gang was declared deposed. The Peoples Daily reported on September 1, at the closing of the 12th session of the standing committee of the National Peoples Congress meeting of 29, the twelve chosen by the Guangdong province deputy to the National Peoples Congress, the former deputy director of Li Gang, on suspicion of serious disciplinary violations, was ordered to resign to the National Peoples Congress.
Li Gang once in the communist youth league, the ministry of culture, the embassy, the central propaganda bureaus and foreign affairs offices and other units, engaged in external work; Central Hong Kong in 2003, deputy director of the liaison office as a director of the central in 2014; Since July 2016 as the deputy director, and clearly for ministerial status.
For dismissal to the National Peoples Congress and the disclosure of disciplinary ministerlevel officials, Li Gang, is not the first person. On February 26, 2016, the 12th session of the standing committee of the National Peoples Congress meeting of 19 by the twelfth session of the standing committee of the National Peoples Congress deputies credentials committee about individual representatives of the representative qualification report noted that the 12th chosen by the Shandong province deputy to the National Peoples Congress, the standing committee of the National Peoples Congress, the law committee of the National Peoples Congress, the Chinese academy of social sciences, vice President of the former, the former deputy secretary of Zhao Shengxuan(ministerial level), due to the violations were ordered to resign from the 12th National Peoples Congress.