Several high-ranking officials and executives in China have been charged with corruption, marking a significant crackdown on bribery and embezzlement within the country's state-owned enterprises and government departments. Among those charged are a former China National Petroleum Corp executive, the former head of Shanghai’s municipal state-owned asset watchdog Bai Tinghui, nearly seven months after being placed under investigation, former China Everbright Group chairman Tang Shuangning, and Zhang Fusheng, ex-deputy head of the fire and rescue department under the Ministry of Emergency Management, accused of accepting some $5.5 million in bribes over 25 years. Sun Shutao, former deputy head of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, stood trial for taking bribes worth over 129 million yuan ($18.18 million), of which 73.38 million yuan had yet to be received.