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Shanghai party chief sacked for graft
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-09-25 14:49
Chen Liangyu, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of Communist
Party of China (CPC), has been sacked for his involvement in a social security
fund scandal.
Chen Liangyu holds a
news conference in Shanghai in this February 27, 2002 file photo. Chen
has been sacked for his involvement in a social security fund
scandal. [Reuters] | Chen was also suspended
from the posts of member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee
and member of the CPC Central Committee.
Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng has
been appointed the acting secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the
CPC by the CPC Central Committee.
The Political Bureau of the CPC
Central Committee convened a meeting on Sunday and discussed a preliminary
investigation report on Chen's problems, which was tabled by the the CPC Central
Commission for Discipline Inspection.
The CPC Central Commission for
Discipline Inspection is investigating Chen's case.
According to the
preliminary investigation, Chen was also involved in other discipline
violations, such as helping to further the economic interests for illegal
entrepreneurs, protecting his staff who severely violated laws and discipline,
furthering the interests of family members by taking advantage of his official
posts.
The CPC Central Committee held that its investigation into Chen
and his subsequent punishment demonstrated the CPC's resolution to build a clean
Party and to fight corruption.
Whenever an official violated discipline
and laws, regardless of name or rank, he or she would be severely punished,
according to the committee.
The CPC Central Committee stressed that all
Party members, especially senior cadres, must have a clear awareness of the
far-reaching, complex and arduous nature of the fight against corruption, and
urged them to maintain propriety in their lives, authority, social status and
personal interests.
It reminded them to focus on improving their
performance, to guard against temptation and to persist in stringent
self-discipline.
Party committees at all levels should strengthen the
education and management of cadres, tighten restrictions and supervision of
authority, and promote a better party performance, clean and honest government,
and the fight against graft, it said.
The CPC Central Committee believed
it could effectively curb corruption under its leadership with Hu Jintao as
general secretary and with joint efforts of all Party members and the public.
It is also confident of improving the general atmosphere in the Party
and society and boosting the construction of socialism with Chinese
characteristics further ahead.
Chen was born in October 1946 in Ningbo
city, east China's Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the Architecture
Department of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Institute of Logistics
Engineering where he had majored in architecture. He joined the CPC in April
1980.
He assumed the posts of Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal
Committee of the CPC and member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central
Committee in 2002.
Han Zheng, born in 1954, is a native of Cixi, east
China's Zhejiang Province. He joined the CPC in 1979 and was a delegate at the
14th and 15th CPC National Congresses, and a member of the 16th CPC Central
Committee.
Han was elected as deputy party chief
of Shanghai in May 2002 and became mayor of Shanghai
in February 2003.
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Han Zheng, the acting secretary
of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China [file
photo]
| Han Zheng has become acting secretary
of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC),
according to a decision of the CPC Central Committee.
The appointment was announced on Monday after Chen Liangyu was suspended from
the posts of Shanghai's party chief and member of the Political Bureau of the
CPC Central Committee, for his involvement in a social security fund scandal.
Han Zheng was elected as deputy party chief of Shanghai in May 2002 and
became mayor of Shanghai in February 2003.
The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee convened a meeting on
Sunday and discussed a preliminary investigation report on Chen's relevant
problems, which was tabled by the the CPC Central Commission for Discipline
Inspection.
The CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection is investigating Chen's
case.
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