Once deemed China’s brightest rising star in shipbuilding, Sun Bo now finds himself under investigation, the latest high profile shipping executive to be brought down by President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive.
Bo, general manager of the northern state-run yard conglomerate China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), was detained for “suspected serious violation of Party disciplinary rules and law”, the ruling Communist Party of China’s (CPC) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and National Supervisory Commission said in a statement on Sunday.
More than a million people have faced anti-graft charges since Xi assumed power five years ago, including many shipping-related executives.
Sun started out at CSIC’s flagship, Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co (DSIC), rising rapidly through the ranks to lead that yard and become one of the international faces of CSIC.
