According to the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission on the 15th, Zhao Zhengyong, the former secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, 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 Commission.(China News Service)
Zhao Zhengyong, former secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, was dismissed on Tuesday night (15th).Analysts pointed out that Zhao Zhengyong's dismissal was the official explanation for the illegal villa construction case in Xi'an Qinling Mountains and the 100 billion mining rights case in Shaanxi that have been hotly discussed recently. It is not ruled out that high-ranking officials will be held responsible for these two incidents in the future.
In 2001, Zhao Zhengyong was transferred from Anhui to the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee. Since then, he has been promoted from executive deputy governor to provincial governor and provincial party committee secretary until he retired in 2016 and served as deputy director of the Internal Affairs and Judiciary Committee of the National People's Congress..
However, Zhao Zhengyong, who has retreated to the second line, has never been able to enjoy his old age. Shaanxi businessman Zhao Faqi has been reporting through various channels his illegal interference in the 100 billion mining rights case, especially the case of illegally built villas in Qinling that spread during his term. The Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the middle of last yearXu Lingyi supervised on-site.In August last year, news spread that Zhao Zhengyong was taken away for review by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Some officials and businessmen who had close contacts with him were also investigated, including Zhao Zhengyong’s nephew Hu Chuanxiang, the former director of the Shaanxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection’s Corruption Prevention Office.
In 2014, Zhao Zhengyong, the top leader in Shaanxi Province, did not pay attention to the instructions of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China on the case of illegally built villas in Qinling Mountains. Instead, he used a seriously inaccurate report to try to get past the situation, which resulted in six instructions and the dispatch of police officers.The on-site supervision of the Discipline Inspection Commission working group finally solved this problem that had been delayed for many years.
At present, officials have not disclosed whether Zhao Zhengyong accepted bribes in the case of illegally built villas in Qinling.Even if he did not accept bribes, Zhao Zhengyong's attitude of taking the supreme leader's instructions seriously can be regarded as a violation of the political discipline of the CCP.When officials notified provinces and cities of illegally built villas in the Qinling Mountains late last year, they particularly emphasized Shaanxi provincial leaders' violation of political discipline and rules.
At that time, the outside world judged that a top official in Shaanxi Province would be responsible for this, but there were different opinions on who it was.Now that Zhao Zhengyong has appeared as the protagonist of the case, and several deputy provincial-level officials in Shaanxi have been dismissed or demoted due to this, according to the official approach of hunting down tigers first to sweep away the peripherals and then to find the protagonists, it is expected that the current leadership of Shaanxi Province will not be significantly affected.
However, a special feature on the case of illegally built villas in the Qinling Mountains broadcast by CCTV earlier this month revealed that the main leaders of the provincial government who partnered with Zhao Zhengyong in 2014 only reviewed the instructions... and apparently did not pay enough attention to them.
Analysts believe that the main leaders of the provincial government mentioned in the CCTV documentary refer to the provincial governor, and the then governor of Shaanxi was Lou Qinjian, the current secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.This feature film was obviously shot under the instructions of high-level officials. It is very political and the officials concerned must have felt the pressure.
The day before yesterday, China Economic Weekly quoted a person familiar with the matter as saying that Zhao Zhengyong is very domineering, with long hands and very thin management.When he was the governor, he decided everything by himself and rarely reported to the secretary of the provincial party committee, but when he was the secretary of the provincial party committee, he often took care of government affairs.For example, the person familiar with the matter said that during Zhao Zhengyong's administration, the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee's report to the Central Inspection Team was not even collectively studied by the Standing Committee.
The report also said that Zhao Zhengyong's high-handedness made his relationship with other team members in Shaanxi Province very tense.It is not difficult to understand that his colleagues have reported him one after another, and the problems reflected include buying and selling officials, style issues and so on.
When Zhao Zhengyong became governor of Shaanxi in 2010, the secretary of the provincial party committee was Zhao Leji, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China and secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.If Zhao Zhengyong had a domineering style and rarely reported to the secretary of the provincial party committee, his fate today would be easier to understand.
