The political and legal system in Wuhan, a city on the Yangtze River, continues to fluctuate.On October 19, the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced two pieces of news. Zhou Bin, executive deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee, and Liu Hanqiang, secretary of the party group and president of the Jianghan District Court in Wuhan, were suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and are currently accepting discipline from the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision.Review and Monitoring Investigations.Including Wang Chen and Sun Guangjun, the former top prosecutors in Wuhan who were investigated, and Li Shengqiao, the former chairman of the Huangpi District Political Consultative Conference who has served in the political and legal system for a long time, in the five months since May 2018, five senior political and legal officials in Wuhan have been sacked.

Judging from the official resumes, both Zhou Bin and Liu Hanqiang are deeply involved in Wuhan's judicial system.Zhou Bin, who was born in 1960, started working in 1982. He successively served as assistant prosecutor and prosecutor of Wuhan Municipal Procuratorate, deputy director of the Policy Research Office of Wuhan Municipal Procuratorate, and director of the office. From January 1997 to September 2003, he served as the Caidian District of Wuhan CityDeputy Secretary of the CPC Committee, Zhou Bin has served as Vice President of Wuhan Intermediate Court for more than eight years since September 2003, and Executive Deputy Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of Wuhan Municipal Committee since November 2011.Until his fall, Zhou Bin had served as the executive deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee for nearly seven years.The last time Zhou Bin made his public appearance was on October 1, when he accompanied Cao Yujiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, to a crowded public place to inspect the security work during the National Day and condolences to the police officers on duty.

Liu Hanqiang's work experience is simpler. From 1984 to 2016, he worked in the Wuhan Intermediate People's Court. He successively served as a member of the Second Criminal Tribunal, a deputy chief member, a vice president, a judge, and a full-time member of the Wuhan Intermediate People's Court Judgment Committee.In November 2016, he became the head of the Jianghan District Court of Wuhan City.

Since 2018, Wuhan's political and legal system has continued to fluctuate.On May 8, Wang Chen, Party Secretary and President of the Wuhan Intermediate People's Court, was announced to accept disciplinary review and supervisory investigation (see Caixin for details: Wuhan Intermediate People's Court President Wang Chen was investigated as a first-level senior judge).At that time, the official report also specifically mentioned that Wang Chen was detained.Caixin reporter noticed that in the first half of 2018, there were 14 corruption cases in which the Hubei Provincial Supervisory Committee took detention measures, of which 9 were top-ranking cases, and the Wang Chen case was one of the nine top-ranking cases.

Born in April 1962, Wang Chen obtained a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in law from Wuhan University.In July 1987, Wang Chen entered the Hubei court system and successively served as an amateur university teacher of the Hubei Provincial Court, a clerk of the Political Research Office of the Hubei Higher Court, a deputy section clerk, the deputy chief judge of the third criminal division, and the deputy chief judge of the second criminal division, Member of the Judicial Committee, Director of the Research Office, and President of the First Criminal Tribunal.In April 2002, Wang Chen was released as the president of the Hanjiang Intermediate Court. Two years later, he was transferred to the president of the Huangshi Intermediate Court. In May 2006, he returned to Wuhan to serve as the vice president of the Hubei High Court.The vice president, acting president, and president of the academy until May 2018.On September 29, 2018, the 16th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th Wuhan Municipal People's Congress voted to accept Wang Chen's resignation.

Just over four months after Wang Chen was sacked, on September 19, Sun Guangjun, secretary of the party group and chief prosecutor of the Wuhan Procuratorate, was also sacked for serious violations of discipline and law.Sun Guangjun was born in April 1960, and his career has been carried out in the Hubei procuratorate system.In April 1992, Sun Guangjun joined the Wuhan Procuratorate after obtaining a master's degree in law from Zhongnan University of Political Science and Law.Chief Prosecutor, served as Acting Chief Prosecutor and Chief Prosecutor of Hanyang District Procuratorate since October 2002, and was promoted to Acting Chief Procurator and Chief Prosecutor of Yichang City Procuratorate since November 2006.After working in Yichang for more than eight years, in January 2015, Sun Guangjun returned to Wuhan to serve as the deputy chief prosecutor of the Wuhan Procuratorate, and became the head of the Wuhan Procuratorate a year later.Sun Guangjun served as the chief prosecutor of the Wuhan Procuratorate for two and a half years until his fall.

In addition, the website of the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced on September 28 that Li Shengqiao, the former party secretary and chairman of the CPPCC in Huangpi District, Wuhan, was suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and was subject to disciplinary review and supervisory investigation.Li Shengqiao was born in December 1957. From October 2011 to November 2016, he worked in the Huangpi District CPPCC. He had retired to the second line when he was investigated.

According to public information, Li Shengqiao is also a senior political and legal official. He joined the Wuhan Intermediate People's Court in January 1980, and was gradually promoted from an officer in the Political Division to the vice president of the Administrative Tribunal in 19 years.In December 1998, Li Shengqiao was transferred to the Political and Legal Committee of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee, where he served successively as deputy director, director, and director of the Law Enforcement Supervision Division of the Guidance and Coordination Division.From October 2001 to October 2011, Li Shengqiao served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Huangpi District Committee of Wuhan City and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the District Party Committee for ten years. In November 2011, he was promoted to Secretary and Chairman of the Party Committee of the Huangpi District CPPCC. In November 2016, he retired to the second line.

The official careers of the above-mentioned people quite intersect.For example, when Zhou Bin was the vice president of the Wuhan Intermediate Court, Liu Hanqiang was the chief judge of the Second Criminal Division of the Wuhan Intermediate Court, and the two were superiors and subordinates.During Wang Chen's tenure as the head of the Wuhan Intermediate People's Court, Liu Hanqiang was first promoted from the chief judge of the Second Criminal Division of the Wuhan Intermediate People's Court to a full-time member of the Judicial Committee, and then served as the president of the Jianghan District Court.In addition, Zhou Bin and Sun Guangjun also served together in the Wuhan Procuratorate, and they are colleagues.So far, officials have not disclosed the progress of the investigation and the details of the case involved.■