Yu Yuanhui | |||||||
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| 余远辉 | |||||||
| Communist Party Secretary of Nanning | |||||||
| In office May 2013 – May 2015 | |||||||
| Preceded by | Chen Wu | ||||||
| Succeeded by | Wang Xiaodong | ||||||
| Communist Party Secretary of Wuzhou | |||||||
| In office 2006–2008 | |||||||
| Preceded by | Ren Xiekang (任燮康) | ||||||
| Succeeded by | Liu Zhiyong (刘志勇) | ||||||
| Personal details | |||||||
| Born | January 1964 (age 60) Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi | ||||||
| Nationality | Chinese | ||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party (expelled) | ||||||
| Alma mater | Guangxi Agricultural College Dalian University of Technology | ||||||
| Occupation | Politician | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 余遠輝 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 余远辉 | ||||||
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Yu Yuanhui (Chinese: 余远辉; born January 1964) is a Chinese politician of ethnic Yao heritage who spent most of his career in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Until 2015, he served as the Communist Party Secretary of Nanning, capital of Guangxi, and was a Standing Committee member of the regional party organization. In May 2015, he was put under investigation by the Chinese Communist Party's anti-corruption agency.[1] An alternate member of the Central Committee from 2007 until his downfall, Yu was duly expelled from the party and lost his Central Committee seat in 2015 and was sentenced to 11 years in jail.[2]