(Morning News) According to Xinhua News Agency, Chen Gang, former deputy mayor of Beijing, member of the Communist Party of China Association for Science and Technology, and secretary of the Secretariat, is suspected of serious violations of disciplines and laws and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.
Public resumes show that Chen Gang, 56, was a lecturer, political counselor, party committee member, and youth league committee secretary at the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University.He later formally entered officialdom and served as assistant to the mayor of Liuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, director of the Municipal Comprehensive Urban Management Office, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Planning Commission, party secretary, and director.
He served as the deputy mayor of Beijing in October 2006, and concurrently served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China in July 2012. In February 2017, he was transferred to the deputy director of the Office of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project Construction Committee of the State Council.He was transferred to the Association for Science and Technology in March 2018 and served successively as a member of the Party Group, Secretary of the Secretariat and Standing Committee Member of the Association for Science and Technology.
Chen Gang is an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Official media did not announce the reason for his investigation yesterday.
Served as deputy director of the South-to-North Water Diversion Office of the State Council in March 2017
According to the Beijing News, on February 21, 2017, the Beijing Daily announced that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China recently approved that Li Shixiang no longer serves as a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China; Chen Gang no longer serves as a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China.
On February 24, 2017, the 35th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th Beijing Municipal People’s Congress accepted the resignation of Li Shixiang, Chen Gang, and Lin Keqing from their positions as deputy mayors of Beijing.Chen Gang: Male, Han nationality, born in May 1966, from Chongyang, Hubei Province. He joined the party in May 1988 and started working in August 1989. He graduated from an on-the-job postgraduate degree (majoring in urban planning from the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University), holds a master's degree in engineering, and is a senior engineer.
He served as secretary of the Youth League Committee of the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, assistant to the mayor of Liuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, director of the Municipal Comprehensive Urban Management Office, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Urban and Rural Planning Commission, deputy director, director, and party group of the Municipal Planning Commission (Capital Planning and Construction Commission Office)secretary.
In October 2006, Chen Gang was appointed deputy mayor and member of the Party Leadership Group of the Beijing Municipal People's Government.In July 2012, Chen Gang served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, deputy mayor, and member of the party group of the municipal government.In March 2017, Chen Gang was appointed deputy director of the South-to-North Water Diversion Office of the State Council.
In 2015, it was rumored that he would be investigated as the first Beijing official to step down
According to the overseas media Der Spiegel, Chen Gang, deputy mayor of Beijing, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, and current alternate member of the 18th Central Committee, is about to face double regulations for allegedly accepting a large amount of bribes. He may become the first deputy provincial governor in Beijing to be investigated since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.Ministerial senior officials.The report also quoted sources as saying that the bribes had been delivered to Mrs. Chen Gang, and she had immigrated to Canada.
The report quoted sources as saying that Chen Gang used his power in charge of urban planning to accept huge bribes from many developers and contractors.
As early as 2012, a signed insider revealed on the Internet that Chen Gang and Li, a real estate developer who immigrated to Canada, were in cahoots with one another for politics and business. The former used his planning power to grant land to the latter, and the latter used the money he earned to finance the former's affairs.Buying an official to pave the way and acting as the former's family economic manager is a typical example of collusion between officials and businessmen in the capital and corruption.
The report also pointed out that Chen Gang and Lu Xiwen, deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, became the two high-ranking officials in Beijing under investigation, thus breaking Beijing's record of zero.
The most recent public event that Chen Gang attended was on the 19th of this month. As a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee and deputy mayor, he attended the expert meeting of the Beijing Famous Cities Committee and delivered a speech.
