The official website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection reported last night that Zhao Zhengyong, the former secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Committee.

Public resumes show that Zhao Zhengsheng was born in Ma'anshan, Anhui Province in March 1951 and had worked in Anhui Province for a long time.Zhao Zhengyong was transferred to Shaanxi in 2001 and served as member of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee.Since then, he has successively served as member of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Governor, Deputy Secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, Governor, and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group.He served as Secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee from December 2012 until March 2016 when he resigned.From April 2016 to March 2018, he served as the vice chairman of the Internal Affairs and Judiciary Committee of the Twelfth National People's Congress.

According to the Beijing News, four months after Zhao Zhengyong retired, in July 2018, the central government took the lead in rectifying the illegal construction of villas at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains.

On July 30, 2018, Shaanxi Province held a mobilization and deployment meeting in Xi'an for a special rectification work on illegally built villas at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains.Shaanxi Daily reported: Recently, General Secretary... made important instructions on the illegal construction of villas in Xi'an at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains and serious damage to the ecological environment, requiring a thorough investigation and punishment.

At this deployment meeting, Xu Lingyi, deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, sat in the capacity of the leader of the special rectification working group dispatched by the central government. He emphasized: We must adhere to a problem-oriented approach and have a deep understanding of the illegal construction of villas in Xi'an at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains. It reflects the implementation...The general secretary’s important instructions are not firm, solid, and not in place. We should clearly understand that the illegal construction of villas in Xi’an at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains includes both political and administrative issues.

Since then, the central, provincial and municipal levels have launched a battle to defend the Qinling Mountains. A total of 1,194 illegally built villas in the Xi'an section of the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains have been listed as targets for investigation and rectification.

On the evening of January 9, CCTV broadcast a news feature film on "Catching the Right Discipline to the End", reviewing the entire process of renovating illegal construction in the Qinling Mountains.In the feature film, many leading cadres appeared and talked about the main leaders of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee at that time.

The film shows that on May 13, 2014, General Secretary... made important instructions on the issue of enclosing land for building villas in the Xi'an section of the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, and asked the leading comrades of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government to pay attention to the matter.

The film stated that after receiving the instructions, the then main leaders of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee did not communicate and study at the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, nor did they conduct special research. They simply instructed the Provincial Party Committee’s Inspection Office to work with the Xi’an Municipal Party Committee to find out and report to the central government as soon as possible.Submit materials.At this time, the secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee was Zhao Zhengyong.

Liu Xiaoyan, then member of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee, said that the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee did not convey the learning at the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee at that time, but it was the instructions of the main leaders at the time.

Two months later, in July 2014, the Xi'an Municipal Party Committee reported to the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee that the illegally built villas in Qinling had been completely identified, with a total of 202 villas.The Provincial Party Committee accepted all the receipts, and this false figure was used for four years.

Liu Xiaoyan said: The actual situation later proved that there are not only these 202 buildings, but much larger than this, so if verified, this problem will definitely not occur.

Shaanxi Province reported to the Party Central Committee in August 2014 that the number of illegally built villas in Qinling Mountains had been identified.In fact, the report contents of the Xi'an Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government were basically submitted directly without verification.

Liu Xiaoyan recalled: The materials submitted to the central government should be carefully verified, but in fact they were not verified. They were completed on the basis of the materials reported in the Xi'an Municipal Newspaper. It was a report of the Provincial Party Committee, but it was the content of Xi'an City.This is a serious bureaucracy.

On October 13 of that year, General Secretary... issued important instructions for the second time, requiring that we must attach great importance to it, rectify it with a resolute attitude, and use practical actions to curb the spread of such problems that undermine ecological civilization.

In November 2014, the Xi'an Municipal Party Committee reported to the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee that all 202 illegal buildings had been disposed of.On the day when the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee received the materials submitted by Xi'an City, it reported to the central government in the name of the Provincial Party Committee: 202 illegally built villas have been completely disposed of.

Qiao Zheng, who was then a consultant to the Xi'an Municipal Government, said that he would report to the central government later that the rectification was complete. These words are not true, absolutely not true.