Bureaucrats and Corruption · Full chronicle and history

The NPC Standing Committee is conducting an urgent first review of three draft laws: the Financial Law, the Government Procurement Law, and the Bidding and Tendering Law, with the core promotion of retroactive checks on major capital flows and a lifelong accountability mechanism.

On September 21, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision announced that Qin Weizhong, member of the Leading Party Group of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress and former mayor of Shenzhen, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation.

On September 20, Li Yun was officially elected as the Mayor of Shenzhen, succeeding Qin Weizhong, who had previously resigned.

On September 18, the official authorities in Zhumadian, Henan released a promotional video showing citizens spontaneously observing a moment of silence when the air raid siren sounded. This triggered skepticism among netizens in the comment section, who accused it of being staged and mocked official formalism such as not granting a holiday on the anniversary and keeping assembly lines running.

On September 9, a video from a class in a primary school in Jiangxia District, Wuhan showed students who had not subscribed to student milk being gathered in the back rows of the classroom to take water cups and drink. The Education Bureau responded on September 10, stating it was a misunderstanding by parents and emphasizing voluntary subscription. The incident sparked widespread public questioning of the administrative promotion targets for student milk and the underlying profit chain.

Yangxin County Fourth Experimental Primary School in Shandong Province released a list of disciplinary violations, including behaviors such as walking and talking simultaneously and playing with paper airplanes, which were subject to notification and point deductions, sparking heated discussions among netizens.

The influencer "Tietou" (Dong Guangming) was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Binjiang Court in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, for organizing a team to expose social darkness, including scams involving elderly health products and shortchanging at seafood markets. His team members were also sentenced. The official reason given was "extortion," but the video argues this is a fabricated charge aimed at suppressing those who reveal the truth.

On August 24, Qin Weizhong resigned as Mayor of Shenzhen citing a change in his job position, and was transferred to serve as a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress.

Bian Zhigang, member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, is suspected of serious disciplinary violations and violations of the law, and has been officially announced to be under investigation.

At a regular press conference, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that two Japanese nationals have been detained by Chinese authorities in accordance with the law on suspicion of violating Chinese laws.

Zhu Zisong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and former party chief of the Pudong New Area, was tried in another jurisdiction in Nanchang. He was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in the first instance, convicted of accepting bribes totaling 139 million yuan, with his criminal origins traced back to his tenure at the Eighth Academy of Aerospace in 2003.

In a joint operation, the Hong Kong police and the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) charged 7 individuals, including representatives from two contractors, Hung Ngai and Wang Yip, with a total of 25 counts in connection with the Wang Fuk Court fire case in Tai Po. The suspects were charged in court with manslaughter, conspiracy to defraud, money laundering, and other offenses, and were remanded in custody.

After accompanying Xi Jinping to receive Myanmar leader Min Aung Hlaing, Cai Qi has successively missed important diplomatic events such as receiving Cambodia's Hun Sen and the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, triggering external speculation that he has gone missing or lost power.

The Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial People's Congress issued an announcement removing Cai Chaohui from his posts as Vice Governor and Director of the Public Security Bureau due to a job reassignment.

Two Japanese employees working at the China branches of major Japanese heavy electrical machinery giants were caught red-handed at Dalian Customs, suspected of concealing dysprosium and terbium—heavy rare earths used in high-end military applications—inside large machinery to smuggle them out of the country.

On February 12, former journalist Gao Qinrong released a video review stating that in 1998, because he exposed a 280 million yuan vanity project in Yuncheng, Shanxi, which prompted hundreds of media outlets to follow up, he subsequently paid a heavy price.

Following the major fire, the Hong Kong government suddenly announced it would spend 6.8 billion HKD in public funds to completely buy out the property rights of over 1,700 disaster-affected households in Wang Fuk Court, demolish the buildings, and convert the site into a park, sparking public suspicion that this is an effort to destroy evidence of engineering corruption.

The Hainan Provincial Government issued an administrative reconsideration decision, ruling that the Hainan Provincial Public Security Bureau's refusal to disclose the allocation details of the 517 million auction funds to Tan Dekui was illegal, but made no compensation ruling.

At the Beijing Politburo meeting the day after the Hongfuyuan fire, CCDI Secretary Li Xi presented irrefutable evidence of Ma Xingrui's corruption, and he was placed under isolated investigation on the spot.

Liu Xingtai, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial CPC Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, fell from power due to suspected severe disciplinary violations and crimes. In August of the same year, he was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in the first instance for accepting bribes totaling 316 million yuan.

Dong Changqing, former member of the Party Committee and deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Public Security Department, is suspected of serious disciplinary violations and is under investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

The Haikou Intermediate Court issued an enforcement ruling, transferring the ownership of the real estate and vehicles under Shanhaiguan Company to the buyer, Guanyang Sitong Company, in accordance with the Civil Procedure Law, and handled the transfer of registration.

Jia Guichen, the major shareholder of Shanhaiguan, was sentenced for suspected illegal fund-raising. The Public Security Department of Hainan Province illegally auctioned land and under-construction projects owned by the Shanhaiguan company valued at 517 million as a whole.

Tan Deku and his partner Jia Guichen jointly acquired Sanya Shanhaiguan Real Estate Co., Ltd. Tan Deku invested funds and served as the project manager in charge of developing the Shanhai Jingyuan residential community.