Hu Zhiqiang is a typical second-generation official. When his father Hu Fuguo was in power, he was reported by official media many times for his integrity.(Internet)
Hu Zhiqiang, secretary of the party group of the Shaanxi Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission, has not only been in power in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province for nearly 10 years, but also has a father who was a ministerial-level official and has a good official reputation. He is a typical second-generation official.
Hu Zhiqiang, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Shaanxi Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission, was recently deposed.Hu Zhiqiang's father was Hu Fuguo, the former secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, who was once known as an upright official.According to public opinion analysis, Hu Zhiqiang may lead to more corruption cases in official circles in Shaanxi.
The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China released information from the Shaanxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision last night, saying that 55-year-old Hu Zhiqiang is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation.
The news aroused public concern.Public opinion generally refers to high-ranking officials above the vice-ministerial level as tigers, while Hu Zhiqiang is an official at the departmental level and has not reached the level of a tiger.
But Hu Zhiqiang has not only been in power in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province for nearly 10 years, he also has a father who was a ministerial-level official and has a good official reputation. He is a typical second-generation official.In China, the promotion and dismissal of the second generation of officials are often more concerned by public opinion.
According to the public resume, after Hu Zhiqiang graduated from Beijing Institute of Finance and Trade in September 1988, Hu Zhiqiang was assigned to work in the Enterprise Department of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.At the time, his father, Hu Fuguo, was vice-minister of energy in charge of the coal industry.
In 1992, Hu Fuguo became acting governor of Shanxi Province.In the same year, the State Planning Commission, the Ministry of Energy and the Shanxi Provincial Government jointly established Huajin Coking Coal Company, a large state-owned enterprise.In 1993, the same year that his father Hu Fuguo was promoted to the secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Hu Zhiqiang entered the headquarters of Huajin Coking Coal Company as the deputy director of the office, and was promoted to the assistant general manager of the company in only three years.
In 1996, Hu Zhiqiang went to Shenhua Group, another large energy state-owned enterprise, and successively served as the deputy manager of the group's industrial development department, director of the project department, and manager.In 2001, Hu Zhiqiang left state-owned enterprises and entered politics, serving as a member of the Standing Committee of the Xianyang Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, deputy mayor, and deputy secretary of the municipal party committee.In 2005, Hu Zhiqiang was promoted to Deputy Secretary-General of the Shaanxi Provincial Government, Mayor of Yulin City in 2008, and Party Secretary of Yulin City in 2011.
Hu Zhiqiang and his father Hu Fuguo have obvious overlaps in their resumes, but some media not only do not believe that Hu Zhiqiang is under the patronage of his father, but also regard Hu Zhiqiang's struggle as evidence of Hu Fuguo's integrity.In the 08th issue of China Elderly Magazine in 2017, Hu Fuguo: Honest officials are always remembered: After graduating from university, Hu Zhiqiang, the eldest son of Hu Fuguo, was assigned to work in the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, served as the director, and then joined the Shenhua Group Engineering Co., Ltd.Department Manager.When the central government decided to develop the western region, he gave up his high-paying and well-paid job and asked to work in the western region. After eight years of hard work, he became the mayor of Yulin City, Shaanxi Province.
A businessman once reported Hu Zhiqiang’s corruption in his real name
But Hu Zhiqiang's official reputation in Yulin City is obviously not good.In April 2017, Hu Zhiqiang stepped down as Secretary of the Yulin Municipal Party Committee and became Secretary of the Party Group of the Shaanxi Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission.Not long after Hu Zhiqiang left Yulin City, a Yulin businessman named Zhao Faqi reported his corruption in real name.Including buying and selling officials, embezzlement and bribery, wantonly building ancestral tombs, ancestral residences, temples, etc. in his father's hometown.
Some analysts pointed out that Yulin is an important energy center in Shaanxi. In 2016, Yulin's GDP (gross domestic product) ranked second in the province, and its per capita GDP ranked first in the province.
Hu Zhiqiang has been in charge of Yulin for nearly 10 years. He has experienced rapid energy and economic growth in northern Shaanxi, and many bosses and officials have become rich quickly. The local political and business ecology has also been criticized.Ecological corruption is certainly responsible.
Hu Zhiqiang also has a younger brother named Hu Wenqiang.There have been media reports that Hu Wenqiang was admitted to the China University of Mining and Technology as a computer major, but because of his father Hu Fuguo's insistence, he changed his major to mining and worked in a mine after graduation.The minister's son went down to the mine, and it was rumored for a while.However, Hu Wenqiang later served as the deputy general manager of Shanxi Coking Coal Group, the chairman and party secretary of Nanfeng Chemical Industry.
When Hu Fuguo was in power, he was reported by official media many times for his integrity.According to Baidu Encyclopedia, in the spring of 1990, the People’s Daily published an article on the front page of Xinhua News Agency featuring the wife of the vice minister burning boilers, reporting that Hu Fuguo, then the vice minister of the Ministry of Energy, was in charge of heating the bathhouse in the family courtyard of the Ministry of Energy.The boiler thing.That night, then Prime Minister Li Peng called Hu Fuguo: Hu, I didn’t know your wife was still burning the boiler until I read the newspaper today.Hu Fuguo said: Thank you, Prime Minister, for your concern. I am a farmer's child, and the Communist Party has treated me well enough. It is not possible for my family to be all officials.
