# Former Bo Xilai ally Huang Qifan investigated: Who is Chongqing’s political ‘ever-survivor’?

https://mins.news/en/video/99609

- BBC Chinese, 2026-10-14 11:20 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhDizuc5j70

> China’s CCDI said 74-year-old Huang Qifan is suspected of “serious violations of discipline and law” and is under disciplinary review and supervisory investigation. He served as Chongqing mayor and was a close partner of Bo Xilai, yet remained unaffected by the subsequent falls of Bo and Sun Zhengcai. Retired for nine years, Huang continued to comment prominently on economic policy as a scholar. The investigation was announced ahead of the Chinese Communist Party’s fifth plenum.

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