ZHENGZHOU -- Bai Enpei, a former senior lawmaker with the National People's Congress, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on Sunday for taking "a huge amount of bribes" and holding excessive assets with unidentified sources.

Bai, who had also served as head of the provincial committees of the Communist Party of China in Qinghai and Yunnan, respectively, was deprived of political rights for life and had all his personal property confiscated, said a statement of the Anyang City Intermediate People's Court in Henan province.