​Former senior provincial legislator Yang Chongyong sentenced to life imprisonment
By Qu Qiuyan
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Yang Chongyong, a former senior legislator in northern China's Hebei Province, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Secondry Intermediate People’s Court of Tianjin on Thursday.

Yang took advantage of his position from 2008 to 2016 to receive briberies of more than 2 billion yuan ($0.29 billion).