In an official announcement released Tuesday, China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) confirmed that Peng Xiaochun, a former senior political advisor in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, has formally been indicted on criminal charges of bribery.
The 64-year-old, who previously served as vice-chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, was first taken into custody on bribery suspicion following a full investigation conducted by the National Commission of Supervision. After the investigation concluded, the case was transferred to prosecutorial authorities for formal review and prosecution proceedings. Per an official arrangement from the SPP, the Foshan People’s Procuratorate of Guangdong Province has been assigned to lead prosecution, and the case has already been officially filed with the Foshan Intermediate People’s Court.
Prosecutorial officials noted that throughout the review and prosecution phase, Peng was fully notified of all his legal rights, underwent formal questioning, and all legal arguments submitted by his defense counsel were properly reviewed and considered as part of the process.
Court documents outline that Peng abused authority across multiple senior leadership positions he held over his decades-long career to secure illegal benefits for third parties. These positions included deputy Party chief of Liuzhou, deputy secretary-general and director of the General Office of the Communist Party of China Guangxi Regional Committee, Party chief of both Hezhou and Baise, and ultimately his role as vice-chairman of the regional CPPCC. In exchange for these favors, Peng unlawfully accepted an especially large sum of money and high-value valuables, prosecutors say, which meets the threshold for criminal liability on bribery charges.
A native of Guangxi, Peng launched his formal professional career in 1989, after joining the Communist Party of China in April 1985. His entire decades-long public service career was spent within Guangxi, where he rose through the ranks to hold key leadership roles at both municipal and regional levels. He assumed the position of vice-chairman of the Guangxi regional CPPCC in 2018 and held the role until he retired from public office in 2023.
The corruption investigation into Peng was first opened in June 2025, and by December of that same year, he was expelled from the Communist Party of China and stripped of all his former public offices and associated benefits.