China News Service, Beijing, April 30 — Chinese authorities announced on the 30th that Liu Zhiqiang, former member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.

According to his public resume, Liu Zhiqiang, male, Han ethnicity, was born in July 1963 in Juancheng, Shandong Province. He began working in August 1984 and joined the Communist Party of China in December 1986.

Liu Zhiqiang worked for many years in the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security in his early career, serving successively as Director of the Europe and America Division, Director of the International Liaison Division, Deputy Director-General and Director-General of the Foreign Affairs Bureau, and later as Director-General of the International Cooperation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. In June 2012, Liu Zhiqiang was appointed Vice Governor of Qinghai Province. In January 2016, he was transferred to serve as a member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice. In June 2023, the website of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security published the State Council's announcement of appointments and removals of state functionaries, removing Liu Zhiqiang from the post of Vice Minister of Justice.