A Beijing reporter faces up to seven years jail after he accepted money from two whistleblowers with a tipoff on airport construction quality.

Fu Hua, a former China Business News reporter, has been charged with accepting 30,000 yuan ($4,400) from two employees of Changchun Longjiapu Airport in 2005.

The alleged bribers, Zhang Guangtao, then deputy director of airport construction, and Li Shen, Zhang's subordinate, offered Fu money to expose "problems" on their projects.