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Top Chinese map-making scientist Zhou Chenghu under investigation in anti-corruption sweep
Cartographer with business empire in spatial data and low-altitude economy suspected of ‘serious violations of duty’
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Dannie Pengin Beijing
China’s leading cartographic scientist Zhou Chenghu – the former deputy director of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) – is under investigation for corruption, the country’s top watchdog has confirmed.
Zhou is being investigated by central and local anti-corruption bodies for “suspected serious violations of duty”, according to a notice posted on Monday by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Communist Party’s highest internal disciplinary and supervisory body. The notice did not reveal any details of the allegations against Zhou.
On May 22, the Economic Observer, a weekly Chinese newspaper, cited “informed sources” as saying that the 62-year-old CAS academician had been taken away by disciplinary inspectors from the lobby of his research institute building in late April.
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His personal details have since been removed from the list of academicians on the official CAS website.
Zhou’s primary research fields include spatial data mining, geographic systems modelling, hydrology and water resources, and the application of geographic information systems and remote sensing.
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