On December 7, the **Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission** released a message: Li Jinzhu, former member of the party group and deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Congress, was expelled from the party for serious violations of discipline and law.
After investigation, Li Jinzhu lost his ideals and beliefs, abandoned his original mission, abandoned his political responsibility, ran counter to the major decision-making and deployment, engaged in the "seven haves", and polluted the local political ecology and social atmosphere; Violating the spirit of the eight provisions and accepting banquets in violation of regulations; violating organizational principles, using authority to seek benefits for others and accepting money or property in the selection and appointment of cadres; Accepting gifts, cash gifts, or consumption cards in violation of regulations, and running businesses in violation of regulations; meddling in market economic activities and the allocation of public financial resources; Improper family style; "Relying on coal to eat coal", greedy and excessive, even engaging in power-for-money transactions, taking advantage of his position to seek benefits for others in business operations and project contracting, and illegally accepting huge amounts of property.
* The Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission said: Li Jinzhu seriously violated the party's political discipline, organizational discipline, integrity discipline, work discipline and life discipline, constituting a serious violation of duty and suspected of ** crime, and did not restrain or stop after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which is serious in nature and has a bad impact, and should be seriously dealt with.
On the same day, the ** Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission also notified another provincial and ministerial-level "tiger", Qu Min, a former member of the party group and vice chairman of the Heilongjiang Provincial Political Consultative Conference, who was "double-opened". After investigation, Qu Min lost his ideals and beliefs, abandoned his original mission, resisted organizational censorship, and engaged in superstitious activities; Violating the spirit of the eight provisions by accepting banquets and travel arrangements that may affect the fair performance of official duties; Violating organizational principles, failing to report personal matters in accordance with regulations, selecting and appointing cadres in violation of regulations, and accepting property; Accepting gifts and money in violation of regulations, using one's authority to seek benefits for others, and their relatives accepting property; They engaged in power-for-money transactions on a large scale, took advantage of their positions to seek benefits for others in business operations and project contracting, and illegally accepted huge amounts of property.
Among the circumstances of Li Jinzhu's violation of discipline and law, the point of "relying on coal to eat coal" has attracted special attention. In terms of resume, he has served as Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice President of the China Coal Research Institute, President of the Coal Information Research Institute, Secretary of the Yulin Municipal Party Committee, Vice Governor of Shaanxi Province, etc., and has been "deeply cultivated for many years" in the coal field. Yulin is rich in coal resources, but some ** failed to control their inner greed, and fell into the quagmire of corruption during their "dealings" with the coal industry.
In November 2019, Zhao Yong, former secretary of the Party Working Committee and former director of the Management Committee of Yuheng Industrial Zone, Yulin City, was "double-opened". Among his corruption problems, there are "turning the power given by the party and the people into a tool for personal gain, seriously undermining the political ecology and market order of the Yulin coal system" and so on.
In addition, since the beginning of this year, Guo Baocheng, former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Yulin City People's Congress, Wang Changan, former vice mayor of Yulin City, and Qian Laodong, former director of the Standing Committee of the Yulin City People's Congress, have also been investigated one after another.
Looking at the anti-corruption trend in recent years, Li Jinzhu is not the only one who has been accused of "relying on coal to eat coal".
In January 2021, Wen Guodong, former vice governor of Qinghai Province, former secretary of the Haixi Prefecture Party Committee, and former secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Qaidam Circular Economy Pilot Zone, was "double-opened". The discipline inspection department pointed out that Wen Guodong lost the party's ideals, beliefs and purposes, perfunctory and other sets of major decision-making and deployment, and even "relied on coal to eat coal", engaged in interest exchange with illegal private entrepreneurs, and acted as a "protective umbrella" for illegal coal mining, resulting in the problem of illegal coal mining in the Muli mining area in Qinghai at the southern foot of the Qilian Mountains. failure to fulfill the main responsibility of comprehensively and strictly governing the party, seriously damaging the local political ecology; Ignoring the spirit of the eight provisions, accepting banquets arranged by private business owners for a long time and accepting gifts in violation of regulations; Failure to truthfully explain problems when organizing conversations and correspondence; Help specific related parties to greet and solicit projects, and engage in power and sex transactions; Taking advantage of his position, he sought benefits for others in illegal coal mining and project contracting, and illegally accepted huge amounts of property.
In August this year, Li Dong, a former member of the party group and deputy general manager of the State Energy Investment Group Co., Ltd., was expelled from the party. He was pointed out by the discipline inspection department that there are many problems: he has no bottom line of discipline and law, unscrupulously relies on coal to eat coal, has long engaged in power-for-money transactions in the name of "investment" and "*", uses his position to seek benefits for others in product sales and enterprise management, and illegally accepts huge amounts of property, and so on.
Materials**: Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission**, etc.
Compiled by Huang Shuai.
*: China Youth Daily client).