According to a Hong Kong Sing Tao Daily report yesterday (19th), former Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee Secretary Zhao Zhengyong was dismissed on Tuesday, and current Shaanxi Vice Governor Chen Guoqiang was also reported to have been taken away on the same day to assist in the investigation.
Chen Guoqiang was once regarded as the great housekeeper of Zhao Zhengyong, and the two were fellow Anhui residents.Zhao Faqi, a party to the recently heated 100 billion mining rights case, also confirmed the news to Sing Tao Daily. He had previously reported Zhao Zhengyong's involvement in the mining rights case.
The report quoted the Haojing Notes WeChat public account as revealing that on the afternoon of January 15, Shaanxi Vice Governor Chen Guoqiang was taken away from the provincial government compound by investigators, which surprised the surrounding staff.That night the news of Zhao Zhengyong's fall was announced.Chen Guoqiang, 57, is a native of Suzhou, Anhui Province and was once the deputy secretary-general of the provincial government.When Zhao Zhengyong served as governor and secretary of the provincial party committee, he served as secretary-general of the provincial government and was promoted to deputy governor last year, in charge of provincial land and resources, environmental protection, housing and urban and rural construction, and transportation.
The scandal of illegally built luxury villas in the Qinling Mountains led to the dismissal of many high-level officials in Shaanxi, including Wei Minzhou, the former secretary of the Xi'an Municipal Party Committee, Qian Yinan, the former secretary-general of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, Shangguan Jiqing, the former mayor of Xi'an, and Feng Xinzhu, the former deputy governor.
