A bulletin issued by the Ninth NPC Standing Committee in Beijing Friday said that, in accordance with China's election laws, the eligibility of Li Hezhong, the deputy in question, has been terminated due to bribery charges.

Li was a former deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Committee under the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). He had also served as Party secretary of Tongling City and as mayor of Fuyang City, both in central China's Anhui Province.

Prior to Friday's final decision by the NPC, the Provincial People's Congress of Anhui adopted a decision on Jan. 11 canceling his eligibility as an NPC deputy.

(Xinhua News Agency March 1, 2003)