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On January 5, 1982, shortly after the Spring Festival, ** received a briefing submitted by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to ***. The briefing revealed that smuggling activities were rampant in some parts of Guangdong, and that even a small number of leading cadres were involved.
* As the first secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, he had been in charge of financial and economic work throughout his revolutionary career, and was well aware of the seriousness of corruption, which was a critical period of reform and opening up.
A small number of leading cadres are actually involved in smuggling at this moment, and the negative impact is self-evident.
* After reading the briefing, he was furious and immediately ordered his secretary Zhu Jiamu: "It must be severely punished and the losses must be saved at all costs." Subsequently, Wang Heshou led the working group to fly to Guangdong, and after a period of in-depth investigation and visits, it was found that Wang Zhong, secretary of the Haifeng County Party Committee, had serious corruption problems.
Wang Zhong was born in 1927 in a poor peasant family in Tianjin, and his father made a living from farming, and his family life was very difficult. Due to his poor family, Wang Zhong only studied in elementary school intermittently for a few years before dropping out to work.
Because he had no technical expertise, he could only engage in manual labor and experienced a lot of hardships. In 1947, at the age of 20, Wang Zhong joined the army, and was commended by his superiors many times for his bravery and good fighting, and soon joined the Communist Party of China.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Zhong left the army and came to work in the local area. He realized that his cultural level was not enough, so he began to study hard, and he was also very diligent in his work, and took the initiative to ask his old comrades for advice when he encountered problems that he did not understand.
His willingness to learn, his ability to endure hardships, and his enthusiasm for work were highly praised by many veteran comrades, so he made rapid progress and became secretary of the district party committee before he was 30 years old.
In 1977, Wang Zhong was transferred to Guangdong to work as the secretary of the Haifeng County Party Committee. More than a year later, China began reform and opening up. Under the impact of this economic tide, many people began to smuggle goods for profit.
In addition to being the secretary of the county party committee, Wang Zhong also served as the commander-in-chief of SITC's anti-smuggling headquarters. As a result, some smugglers began to throw bait at him, giving him color televisions, refrigerators, tape recorders, and other items that were in high demand at the time.
However, Wang Zhong always adhered to the principle and was not moved by these **.
The experience of suffering did not keep Wang Zhong innocent, but was ** by greed ** and began the ** road. Once he tasted the sweetness, he couldn't extricate himself and even openly asked for bribes.
What is even more infuriating is that he also took advantage of his position to frequently visit Shanwei Town to conduct "inspections." At that time, a large amount of smuggled goods were seized at the Shanwei border checkpoint, but Wang Zhong arbitrarily selected them in the anti-smuggling warehouse and then took the opportunity to take them for himself.
In just a year or so, Wang Zhong took a large number of smuggled goods from here, including 263 watches. Most of these items were sold by Wang Zhong's wife, and later even his son joined in the smuggling activities, and was called the "smuggling home" by the local people.
Because Wang Zhong opened the door to smuggling activities, SITC's anti-smuggling work was paralyzed, and it was once jokingly called a paradise for smuggling and trafficking. After the crime was exposed, Wang Zhong still had luck in his heart, and used all kinds of methods to resist the review of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection working group in a vain attempt to evade punishment.
Faced with conclusive evidence, he had to admit his guilt. According to statistics, the amount of bribes that Wang Zhong** solicited was as high as 70,000 yuan, although this figure does not seem too large now, but in the early 80s, it was equivalent to the salary income of an ordinary cadre for 100 years.
Some people believe that he is an old comrade who has made outstanding contributions during the revolutionary years, and suggest that he be dealt with lightly. However, ** resolutely opposed this point of view, and personally instructed Wang Zhong to be dealt with strictly.
Eventually, Wang Zhong was sentenced to death and executed in 1983. He was the first county party secretary to be executed after the reform and opening up.