On July 29, 2026, Yang Yongning, former director of the Shanghai branch of the National Food and Material Reserve Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was investigated. Over the past four months, multiple officials and executives within the CCP’s food system have been investigated.
According to an announcement on July 29, 2026, by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CCP and the National Supervisory Commission, Yang Yongning, former secretary of the party committee and director of the Shanghai branch of the National Food and Material Reserve Bureau, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and laws, and is currently undergoing disciplinary review by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission’s stationed disciplinary inspection team at the National Development and Reform Commission, as well as investigation by the Chongming District Supervisory Committee in Shanghai.
Public information indicates that Yang Yongning has held positions such as member and deputy director of the party committee of the Shanghai Office of the State Material Reserve Administration of the National Development and Reform Commission, chairman and general manager of Shanghai Guomu Logistics Co., Ltd., secretary of the party committee of the Shanxi bureau directly under the State Food and Material Reserve Bureau, and director of the Shanxi bureau of the State Food and Material Reserve Bureau. In 2024, he was transferred to serve as secretary of the party committee and director of the Shanghai branch of the State Food and Material Reserve Bureau, and he stepped down from his position around the end of 2025 or the beginning of 2026.
The National Food and Material Reserve Bureau is an agency under the State Council of the CCP responsible for the nationwide circulation of food and material reserve management, administered by the National Development and Reform Commission.
According to a report on the official website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, in the past four months, officials from multiple provincial food and material reserve bureaus have been investigated.
On June 9, 2026, Peng Xianhua, former member of the party committee and deputy director, and first-level inspector of the Guizhou Development and Reform Commission, and former secretary of the party committee and director of the provincial food and material reserve bureau, was investigated.
On May 25, 2026, Sun Haoming, former member of the party committee and deputy director of the Jilin Provincial Food and Material Reserve Bureau, was expelled from the party and dismissed from public office. The announcement stated that Sun Haoming engaged in corrupt practices, profited from illegal transactions, and unlawfully accepted huge sums of money. Sun Haoming was taken down from his position on October 27, 2025.
On March 31, 2026, Lu Wenge, member of the party committee of the Jiangxi Development and Reform Commission, secretary of the party committee, and director of the provincial food and material reserve bureau, took the initiative to turn himself in.
Additionally, Dai Zhongwen, secretary of the party committee and general manager of the Xi’an branch of the China Grain Reserves Corporation, was taken down on May 27, 2026; and Wang Xibo, a dedicated external director of the China Grain Reserves Corporation Storage and Transportation Co., Ltd., was taken down on March 19, 2026.
The China Grain Reserves Corporation is a large state-owned enterprise specializing in the storage, processing, trade, and logistics of grain and oil, as well as monitoring the security of central grain and oil reserves.
A report by mainland media outlet “Today’s Headlines” in late May 2026 revealed that from 2025 to now, 20 executives within the China Grain Reserves system have been investigated, spanning multiple major grain-producing regions. From the Northeast granary to the hinterland of the Central Plains, from Shandong to Shaanxi, the tentacles of corruption have reached into various aspects such as procurement, storage, rotation, and project contracting. In procurement, there were price manipulation, false reporting of production, and subsidy frauds; in storage, there were false reporting of losses, selling stale grain, and substandard products; in rotation, there were collusion for profit, embezzlement of price differences; and in project contracting, there were kickbacks, designated relationships, and cutting corners.