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Chen Shaoji, former top political advisor of south China's Guangdong Province, appeared in court on June 25 to face charges of accepting bribes.

Prosecutors told the Chongqing No.1 Intermediate People's Court that Chen, 64, had been using his position to promote the interests of other people in return for more than 29.59 million yuan ($4.35 million).

Chen became chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 2004 and was reelected in 2008. Before that, he had been head of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for nine years since 1993 and served as deputy Party secretary of Guangdong from 1998 to 2004.