For­mer head of Chi­na's FDA boot­ed in wake of sear­ing vac­cine scan­dal as lead­ers im­pose 'se­vere pun­ish­men­t'

The for­mer head of Chi­na’s Drug Ad­min­is­tra­tion has been forced to re­sign in the af­ter­math of a vac­cine scan­dal that rocked the coun­try.

Bi Jingquan — who presided over Chi­na’s drug reg­u­la­to­ry agency for three years be­fore a gov­ern­ment re­vamp put him in charge of a mar­ket su­per­vi­sion bu­reau — is step­ping down along­side two deputy provin­cial gov­er­nors and a may­or in Jilin, where the com­pa­ny at the heart of the scan­dal is based. Jiao Hong, the cur­rent head of the CDA, is be­ing asked to con­duct a “deep re­flec­tion.”

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