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The Chinese government has removed Qin Gang from the post of foreign minister and replaced him with Wang Yi.

“China’s top legislature voted to appoint Wang Yi as foreign minister … as it convened a session on Tuesday,” the Xinhua news agency reported. “Qin Gang was removed from the post of foreign minister.”

The announcement came a month after Qin’s last public appearance.

His ministry had said the 57-year-old was off work for unspecified health reasons, but the lack of detailed information on his whereabouts fuelled a swirl of speculation.

Law Minister Dhanraj Gurung said that a commission will be formed to investigate the property of high-level leaders.

Speaking at a program organized on the occasion of BP memorial week on Tuesday, Minister Gurung said that a commission will be formed to investigate the property of high-level leaders and to establish good governance.

“The property of high-level leaders should be investigated to establish good governance. As it has already been written in the policy and programs of the government that the property of high-level leaders will be investigated, I have to say that a commission will be formed sooner or later to investigate the property of high-level leaders,” he said.

He made it clear that the transformation will start from here.

Minister Gurung said that they will be proved as the leaders of the same group if the property of the high-level leaders is not investigated.

Saying that if Dhanraj Gurung and Shekhar Koirala are of different Congress, he challenged the government to investigate their property first.

He further said that the government will keep on opening the big files of corruption.

Minister Gurung said that he as a minister has also suggested Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to do the same.

“As a minister, I have told the Prime Minister to move ahead. We will keep on opening the files of corruption one after another.  Whoever will be, we will not hesitate to open the files,” he said, adding, “I have already said that the leaders involved in the corruption will be brought to justice.”

Minister Gurung said that he is also ready to quit the post of minister for the same.

Nepali Congress former general secretary Dr Shashank Koirala said that there is no alternative to Nepali Congress in the Nepali politics.

Stating that the Nepali Congress led all changes that took place so far in the country, he said that if unity is intact within the party, no force could defeat it.

The NC is the vehicle for the country's development and the only one party that can bring economic prosperity in the country, Koirala said.

The leader was speaking at a tea reception organized here in honor of NC office-bearers and members on Tuesday.

NC President and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, Vice President Purna Bahadur Khadka, General Secretary Gagan Kumar Thapa, Joint General Secretaries Bhishma Raj Aandembe, Badri Prasad Pandey and Jiban Pariyar, party spokesperson and Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat and leader Dr Shekhar Koirala were present on the occasion.

A high-level team of Communist Party of China (CPC) and main opposition CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli held a meeting on Tuesday.

A team led by Yuan Jiajun, who is also a politburo member and party secretary of Chongqing city held a meeting with Oli at the UML’s party office in Chyasal.

During the meeting, they discussed bilateral interests of the two countries, communist party of the two countries and Chinese projects, according to a source.

They also discussed the reasons for the slow progress of BRI projects.

The team that arrived in Kathmandu on Sunday held separate meetings with President Ram Chandra Paudel, acting Prime Minister Purna Bahadur Khadka, Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN (Maoist Center) leaders among others.

As Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal was in Italy to take part in a program of the United Nations, the Chinese leaders held a virtual meeting with him.