The Communist Party chief of Hefei – a growing tech hub and capital of China’s central Anhui province – has been placed under investigation, the country’s top corruption watchdog announced on Wednesday.

Fei Gaoyun, once widely recognised as a rising star in the “seventh-generation” of future national leaders, is the latest senior official to be snared in President Xi Jinping’s long-running anti-corruption campaign.

Fei was born in the city of Huaian in eastern Jiangsu province in August 1971.

His educational background includes a degree in radio technology from the Yangzhou Institute of Technology and a master’s in public administration from Nanjing University.

His political career began in his home province, one of China’s economic powerhouses, where he worked in various roles within the Communist Youth League. He subsequently held various roles in county- and prefecture-level cities around Jiangsu.