On March 18, according to Chinese state media, Xu Xianping, former member of the CCP National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) party group and deputy director, was reported to be involved in a bribery case and has been transferred to the judiciary for review and prosecution. The Supreme People’s Procuratorate decided to arrest Xu Xianping on suspicion of bribery and designated the Chifeng City Procuratorate to review the prosecution. Recently, Xu Xianping has been indicted.
The prosecution accused Xu Xianping of taking advantage of his positions as a member of the party group and deputy governor of the Hunan Provincial Government, member of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and deputy governor, vice-ministerial level official of the NDRC, and counselor of the State Council to seek benefits for others, illegally accept money and property from others, with an especially large amount, and hold him criminally responsible for bribery.
Publicly available records show that Xu Xianping was born in October 1954 in Longhui, Hunan province. Xu Xianping has served as the Secretary and Director of the Party Group of the Hunan Development and Reform Commission, deputy governor of Hunan province, member of the party group and deputy director of the NDRC, taking a “backseat” in 2015 and later serving as a counselor of the State Council before retiring in July 2023.
On March 27, 2025, Xu Xianping was officially announced to be under investigation.
On November 3, 2025, Xu Xianping was expelled from the Party.
The report stated that Xu Xianping resisted investigation, violated regulations to help others promote job positions, engaged in power-money transactions, used his influence to benefit others in loan approvals, business operations, project contracts, and illegally accepted huge sums of money.
On January 12 this year, Xu Xianping appeared in an official anti-corruption TV special. The special mentioned that his behavior in “retiring without stepping back” and using residual power to seek residual benefits was particularly typical.
After stepping back from his position as deputy director of the NDRC in 2015, Xu Xianping was invited to be a special professor at a university, often participating in forums, lectures, research projects, and planning activities, frequently interacting with people from both political and business circles. Xu Xianping saw this as a platform to maintain his own influence, manipulate political-business relationships, and further seek private gains.
In the special, Xu Xianping mentioned that he once said after retiring, “The world is truly wonderful, only after retirement did I come to understand.”