According to reports, Zhou Zhongming, the former magistrate of Hongya County, Meishan City, Sichuan Province, who burned himself in front of the court a few days ago and claimed to be the county magistrate, has petitioned many times, hoping that his case will be retried.
On the 10th, the Dongpo District Branch of the Meishan City Public Security Bureau in Sichuan Province issued a notice stating that at about 15:00 that day, a man poured gasoline on himself at the gate of the Meishan City Intermediate People's Court and burned himself.The police dealt with it quickly and sent him to the hospital for treatment. At present, his life is not in danger.
After investigation, the man was Zhou Zhongming (66 years old, a former magistrate of Hongya County, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Meishan City Intermediate People's Court in 2001 for corruption and abuse of power). The investigation is currently in progress.
Zhou Zhongming served as the deputy magistrate of Hongya County, Sichuan Province from March 1991, and the county magistrate from January 1993.
In 2001, the Intermediate Court of Meishan City, Sichuan Province made the first-instance judgment on Zhou Zhongming’s case, and sentenced Zhou Zhongming to ten years’ imprisonment for corruption and 20,000 yuan in property confiscation;He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 20,000 yuan of property was confiscated.
According to a case notified by the Sichuan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection in 2004, Zhou Zhongming neglected his duties and abused his power when he was the magistrate of Hongya County.Mainly, resulting in direct economic losses of more than 1.09 million yuan in the county finance.Not only did he embezzle 42,000 yuan of public funds, repeatedly reimbursed 30,000 yuan for business trips, but also reimbursed 20,000 yuan for others.
According to the latest reports, Zhou Zhongming's sentence was changed to 9 years for corruption, embezzlement, abuse of power, and dereliction of duty during the second trial.According to local sources, he suffers from severe diabetes. After he was released from prison, his physical condition was not very good, and his blood sugar reached about 16mmol/L.He has petitioned many times, hoping that the case will be retried. In 2015, the China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine revealed that in March 2014, Zhou Zhongming needed to take 18 units of insulin every day. In 2015, his health improved and he stopped taking insulin and hypoglycemic drugs. During Zhou Zhongming's tenure as magistrate of Hongya County, in 1998, the country experienced a once-in-a-century catastrophic flood.In September of that year, the massive logging of natural forests in Hongya County was exposed and attracted the attention of then Premier Zhu Rongji.
In July 1998, a basin-wide flood broke out in the Yangtze River Basin. According to public information, the deforestation of forests in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River for many years was one of the main reasons.When the floods had not subsided in late August of that year, the Sichuan provincial government in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River launched a natural forest resources protection project, announcing that all forests would be stopped in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Panzhihua City, Leshan City, and Ya'an in Sichuan Province.Clearing of natural forests and closing of timber markets. In September of that year, CCTV revealed that the largest natural forest farm in Sichuan, located in Hongya County, was frantically cutting down the nearly thousand-year-old spruce forest, rolling logs down the mountain in all directions.All of a sudden, timber merchants from all over the country gathered in Hongya secretly, and the price of timber soared all the way. According to China Youth Daily, when CCTV reporters were interviewing, the Hongya County Party Committee learned of the situation and made an urgent decision to detain the reporter and the videotape unconditionally. According to the report, Tang Lixin, a reporter who participated in the interview at the time, recalled that Zhou Zhongming, the magistrate of Hongya County, told me in front of many people at the enlarged government meeting: lsquo; I know that the matter of us cutting down natural forests will be exposed sooner or later.It's not you Tang Lixin who will come, tomorrow will be Wang Lixin, and the day after tomorrow will be Li Lixin, this will happen sooner or later.I'm here to say that it's not a bad thing for you Tang Lixin to come to the public because the province will give us money.Lixin, I want to give you a bonus of 100,000 yuan.rsquo; On September 29 of that year, CCTV Economics broadcast a half-hour report on natural forest logging in western Sichuan, and the Sichuan provincial government ordered Hongya County to stop all natural forest logging.A few days later, on October 1, Sichuan Province completely banned logging of natural forests. On October 7 of that year, then Premier Zhu Rongji commented on the logging of natural forests in Hongya County. At that time, when Zhu Rongji inspected CCTV, he said, I told Sichuan Province long ago that it is best not to cut down any of the original natural forests in Sichuan Province. They also reported to me in the same way, but unexpectedly they missed such a large piece..
