BEIJING: China’s former state assets chief Jiang Jiemin went on trial for corruption Monday, one of the highest-ranking figures to fall in the country’s much-publicized anti-graft drive and an ally of ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang.

Jiang’s trial opened at the Hanjiang Intermediate People’s Court in the central province of Hubei, it said on its Sina Weibo microblog.

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