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Fallen Senior Official Liu Tienan Gets Life in Prison

Former deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and head of the National Energy Administration Liu Tienan has been sentenced to life in prison on corruption charges. An early high-ranking target of Xi Jinping’s ongoing crackdown on official corruption, Liu was expelled from the Party in August 2013, and pled guilty to charges of taking bribes at his trial in September 2014. The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports:  The court