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Liu Jinguo, Vice Minister of Public Security, was elected deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China (CPC), during a plenary meeting of the CPC top discipline watchdog in late October. Liu is currently spearheading China's international manhunt targeting corrupt officials and suspects in economic crimes that have fled the county.

The campaign, known as Fox Hunt 2014, was launched in July to "block the last route of retreat" for corrupt officials at a time when a major crackdown on graft had already narrowed the space available for abuse of power. Since its inception, approximately 180 economic crime suspects abroad have been brought into custody.

Liu, 59, was born in a village in north China's Hebei Province. After graduating from a local school in 1974, he worked at different levels of governmental and police departments in the province for over 30 years before becoming vice minister of public security in 2005.