A businesswoman was stripped of her membership of China's top political advisory body on Thursday.
A decision to strip Liu Yingxia of her membership of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) was adopted at Thursday's meeting of the presidium of the CPPCC National Committee, the Xinhua News Agency reported. No reason was given.
Liu was also a member of the 10th and 11th CPPCC National Committees.
Liu was the fifth to be stripped of membership of the 12th CPPCC National Committee since February 2013, the Hunan-based Xiaoxiang Morning Post reported Friday.
The other four were Wang Suyi, former senior official of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; Huang Fengping, former senior official of Shanghai; Yang Gang, former senior official of the CPPCC National Committee and Li Chongxi, former top political advisor of Sichuan Province. They were all removed due to severe violations of discipline and laws.
Liu has a military family background, joining the army at the age of 15.
Liu founded Harbin Xiangying Group in 1992 after she retired from the army at the age of 20. She was ranked the 46th richest woman in China with 4 billion yuan ($660 million) by Hurun Wealth Report 2013.
Her group is now one of the real estate giants in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province and it also operates in road construction and water affairs.
In May 2012, Liu's company took part in an oil pipeline project of China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the first time that a private enterprise had been allowed to participate in oil pipeline construction in China.
Jiang Jiemin, former president of CNPC, who is facing graft allegations, participated in the signing ceremony then.
The Ministry of Supervision announced in September that Jiang, former head of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, was under investigation.
Four other CNPC officials, including the group's deputy managers Wang Yongchun and Li Hualin, were announced to be under investigation for graft allegations in August.
Global Times