On November 3, the Guangxi Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced that Deng Guofu, former Party Secretary and President of the Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences and a hybrid rice expert, has been expelled from the CCP and is under investigation. He had been engaged in hybrid rice breeding for nearly 40 years, resigned as a member of the Guangxi CPPCC at the end of January this year, and was placed under investigation at the end of May.