Kang Rixin

Who is Kang Rixin?

Kang Rixin is formerly the chief manager of China National Nuclear Corporation and a high-ranking member of the Communist Party of China in the People's Republic of China.

He was born in Datong, Shanxi Province, and graduated from the department of nuclear engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University in August 1978. He joined the Communist Party of China in December 1982. In January 2005, he graduated from the graduate school of the Central Party School, majoring in economics management. In June 2005, he obtained an EMBA certificate from Tsinghua University. He is a senior engineer at the researcher level.

Formerly party chief at China National Nuclear Corporation Kang was fired from the position on 14 August 2009, having been accused of 'grave violations of duty' a phrase normally indicating corruption and graft.*

Chinese Major General Jin Yinan said in a video that Kang Rixin was one of the most senior officials involved in espionage cases in the nation's history.

Other press reports linked Kang Rixin to several million dollars of corrupt payments from Areva, a leading French nuclear engineering company, active in the new nuclear markets in Asia and SE Asia.