The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) expelled a senior provincial official after investigations suggested illegal involvement in cryptocurrency mining activities, among other abuses of power. The Central Commission for Disciplinary Inspection (CCDI) claimed that Xiao Yi, former vice chairman of the Jiangxi Province Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, abused his state-backed administrative powers to undermine the political principle of “double maintenance”, which relates to the PCC’s notion of firmly maintaining the authority of the party: “[Xiao Yi] it violated the new development concept, abused the power to introduce and support companies to carry out virtual currency ‘mining’...