CHENGDU - Huang Yao, the former chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on Thursday for taking bribes.

The Intermediate People's Court of Chengdu, in Southwest China's Sichuan province, made the ruling in a first-instant trial.

The court heard that between September 1993 and early 2009 Huang, 62, abused his positions as Party chief of the Qianxinan Buyi-Miao autonomous prefecture, deputy secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and chairman of the CPPCC Guizhou Provincial Committee.