Kang Rixin

Kang Rixin (Chinese康 日新; born August 1953 in Datong, Shanxi Province) is the former top manager of the National Nuclear Energy Agency 's ( CNNC ) and a senior member of the Communist Party ( CPC) in the People's Republic of China.

In August 1978 he took a degree at the Department of Nuclear Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University. The Communist Party, he joined in December 1982. In January 2005, he graduated from the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China in economic management. In June 2005 he received a certificate as a Master of Business Administration from Tsinghua University.

The former leader of the China National Nuclear Corporation ( CNNC ), Chinese :中国 核 工业 集团公司, was released on 14 August 2009 from his position under the accusation that he had committed serious breaches of duty, a formulation which normally stands for corruption and bribery.

Other press reports said Rixin have received multi-million dollar bribes from Areva, a leading French nuclear engineering group, which is active in new nuclear energy markets in Asia and South East Asia.

Kang Rixin was a member of the 17th Central Committee of Communist Party of China. He was officially ruled on 18 November 2010, after the decision of the Politburo was announced on 29 December 2009 to the 5th General Assembly of that body to expel him from the party.

On October 19, 2010 Kang Rixin was sentenced to life imprisonment. According to the findings of the court, he should be between 6.6 million Yuán 2004 and 2009 ( approximately EUR 730 300 ) have received bribe money and also other breach of guilty.