FILE PHOTO: Yang Xiuzhu reads a newspaper during a meeting in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, December 29, 2001. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese woman who topped a list of China's most-wanted overseas fugitives confessed in court to corruption on Friday, state media said, eight months after she turned herself in.
Yang Xiuzhu, a former deputy mayor of Wenzhou in the booming eastern province of Zhejiang who was on the run for more than 13 years, confessed to corruption and bribery charges during a trial held on Friday, official news agency Xinhua reported.
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