A court in eastern China's Changzhou city sentenced 69-year-old Yang Youlin to death for accepting more than 2.2 billion yuan ($325 million) in bribes over 30 years while holding positions in Nanjing from 1993 to 2023. Yang was convicted of embezzlement, abuse of power, and money laundering after using his roles to steer engineering contracts, land transfers, and financing. The ruling cited exceptionally serious offenses causing heavy losses to state and public interests, consistent with prior executions of officials Lai Xiaomin in 2021 and Li Jianping in 2024.