Xinhua reports that the CPC has disciplined two Hunan government leaders for illegally authorizing the occupation and use of land.

The Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China (CPC) issued Li Xinmin, the secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee of Henan provincial committee of the CPC, and Wang Wenchao, the party chief of the CPC city committee of Zhengzhou, with serious warnings.

Both are members of the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial Committee of the CPC.

The two were called to account for allowing the illegal expansion of a post secondary school campus on to farmland, even after they were ordered to stop.

A survey of 16 cities last year showed that nearly 50% of new land under development was acquired illegally.