Wang Min, a former provincial-level official of Northeast China's Liaoning province and a senior national legislator, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday for corruption, taking bribes and negligence of duty.

The sentence was given by the Luoyang Intermediate People's Court of in Central China's Henan province, which also deprived Wang of his political rights for life, with all his personal assets confiscated.

Wang was vice-chairman of the Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee of the 12th National People's Congress after leaving the post of Liaoning Party chief. In October last year, he was expelled from the Communist Party of China for serious breaches of Party discipline.