Top Chinese economic official Jiang Jiemin has been sacked as head of the body overseeing state-owned companies for "suspected serious disciplinary violations", the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.

The phrase is normally used as code for corruption in China, and the move comes as the country's leaders step up a campaign against graft.

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