expelled an outspoken retired professor.
He Yiting, executive vice-president of the elite Central Party School, told 60 department heads and senior officials on Monday to carry out “meticulous work” to keep retirees loyal in particular, according to a statement on the school website on Thursday. The meeting was held the same day the school announced that former professor Cai Xia had been expelled from the party and lost her pension because of speeches “that damaged the reputation of the country” and had “serious political problems”. School president Chen Xi, who is also the minister of the party’s organisation department, did not attend the meeting.
