Career
In June 1999 he was removed from his post after being implicated in the Lai Changxing smuggling scandal centered on the Fujian port of Xiamen. In 2000 Ji was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve (usually commuted to a life sentence after two years), but the sentence was later reduced to 20 years in jail. United States. Democratic National Committee fund-raiser Johnny Chung testified before the United States. Congress in May 1999 that Ji gave him 300,000 United States. dollars to donate to the Democratic Party.
Ji is the son of Ji Pengfei, who was China"s foreign minister when United States. President Richard Nixon visited China in 1972.
