BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in China on Friday jailed a former chairman of Baoshan Iron and Steel, who went on to become vice mayor of Shanghai, to 17 years for bribery and graft, a state broadcaster reported.
President Xi Jinping has waged war on graft for more than four years, vowing that all corrupt officials, from powerful "tigers" to lowly "flies", will be weeded out, and warning that a failure to do so could threaten the ruling Communist Party.
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