The former chairman of China’s top liquor maker, Kweichow Moutai, recently passed away unexpectedly while in prison, and the once-influential “Moutai Club” for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) elites is no more. Xi Jinping’s administration has been conducting a purge of the forces behind Moutai liquor for several years. Moutai (or Maotai) is a colorless Chinese liquor, distilled from fermented sorghum. It is made in the town of Maotai in China’s Guizhou province and won an award during the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition. Kweichow Moutai was once China’s most valuable stock. According to data from Jan. 7 last year, Kweichow Moutai’s market value was 2.44 trillion yuan (approximately $382.6 billion), twice that of the second-ranked “Industrial and Commercial Bank of China” and three times that of the fifth-ranked “PetroChina.”...Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/former-kweichow-moutai-chairman-dies-in-jail-moutai-club-collapses-5497494