On the evening of May 25, 2018, the Shanghai Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision issued a message: Lu Yongjie, the former party secretary and chairman of Bright Food (Group) Co., Ltd., is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the Shanghai Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision..
Born in November 1956, 62-year-old Lu Yongjie has retired for two and a half years. According to public information, Lu Yongjie is a native of Fenghua, Zhejiang, an old bright man. He served as chairman and general manager of Shanghai Meilin Zhengguanghe Group in his early years, chairman and general manager of Meilin Co., Ltd., and deputy secretary of the party committee of Light Industry Holding (Group) Company, president, chairman.Among them, Meilin shares is a listed company under Bright Group. Afterwards, he left the Light Industry Holding Group and turned into an official career. He served as the deputy secretary and vice chairman of the party group of the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions, and later served as the deputy secretary of the party committee of the Shanghai State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.In November 2013, Lu Yongjie reached the last stop of his career.In that month, he returned to Guangming Group and took over from Wang Zongnan as party secretary and chairman. He retired after working here for two years.His predecessor, Wang Zongnan, fell during his tenure. At the end of November 2013, Bright Group announced that Wang Zongnan, then chairman, had been hospitalized for two weeks due to physical reasons.A few days later, Bright Group held a party committee meeting, announcing that Wang Zongnan would step down, and that the post of chairman would be replaced by Lu Yongjie, then deputy secretary of the Shanghai State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. At the handover meeting at that time, Lu Yongjie and Wang Zongnan made speeches respectively.Lu Yongjie, who was once the chairman of the subsidiary company Merlin Co., Ltd., said in his speech that he felt like going home. As for his successor Lu Yongjie, Wang Zongnan commented that he is familiar with the economy, has served as the main leader of grassroots enterprises and large groups for a long time, and also has work experience at the government level.In terms of official career experience, Lu Yongjie and Wang Zongnan have both worked in enterprises for a long time, and both have government work experience.
Wang Zongnan was born in Shanghai in 1955, one year older than Lu Yongjie.He was an official in his early years, and he was a subordinate of Chen Liangyu, the former secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee.
From 1987 to 1992, Chen Liangyu served as the deputy secretary and head of the Huangpu District Committee of Shanghai, and Wang Zongnan was the assistant to the head of Huangpu District and the deputy head of the district.According to the Integrity Watch report, there is a local rumor that Wang Zongnan left the government to go to a state-owned enterprise because he was instructed by Chen Liangyu: Chen Liangyu appreciated Wang Zongnan and encouraged him to go to the enterprise to exercise, which can not only improve the level of the official office, but also accumulate political achievements. In 1995, Wang Zongnan, who was 40 years old at the time, went to work in a state-owned enterprise. He successively served as chairman and deputy secretary of the party committee of Shanghai Friendship Group, president of Shanghai Bailian Group, director and general manager of Shanghai Friendship Fosun Company, chairman and party secretary of Lianhua Co., Ltd., took charge of Guangming Group in 2006 and stepped down after 7 years. In July 2014, Wang Zongnan, who had been the chairman of Guangming Group for one year, was investigated; in August 2015, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for two crimes of accepting bribes and embezzling public funds. It is worth mentioning that the illegal acts were committed during the tenure of Shanghai Friendship Group and Lianhua Co., Ltd., and did not occur during the tenure of Guangming Group.Four months after Wang Zongnan was sentenced, in December 2015, Lu Yongjie, who was under 60 years old at the time, resigned from the post of party secretary and chairman of Guangming Group ahead of schedule. In addition to Wang Zongnan and Lu Yongjie, the two chairman of the board, several senior executives of Bright Group have been dismissed in recent years.In July 2015, Guo Benheng, the former president of Bright Dairy, was investigated; in November 2016, he was sentenced to 6 years in the first instance for accepting bribes and fined 600,000 yuan.
On February 1 this year, the Shanghai Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Xu Rongjun, the former general manager of Shanghai Meilin Zhengguanghe Co., Ltd., was suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and was undergoing organizational review and supervisory investigation. Xu Rongjun was born in August 1957. According to the first quarter financial report of Merlin Co., Ltd. in 2004, when Xu Rongjun was the general manager of Merlin Co., Ltd., Lu Yongjie was the chairman at that time.
