The second issue of China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Magazine in 2019 stated that abstaining from formalism and bureaucracy is political responsibility. The article talked about Zhao Zhengyong, the former secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee.

The article stated that the special film "Getting to the Bottom of the Rules and Regulations" disclosed in detail the whole story of the rectification of illegally built villas in the Qinling Mountains. Zhao Zhengyong, the former secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee who had already been dismissed, received important instructions from the general secretary when he was in office in 2014, but did not report to the provincial party committee.The Standing Committee carried out communication and study at the meeting, and did not conduct special research. It simply instructed the Provincial Party Committee’s Inspection Office to work with the Xi’an Municipal Party Committee to find out and submit materials to the central government as soon as possible. As a result, the problem of illegally built villas has not been solved for a long time, and the ban has continued.

What's even more ironic is that Zhao Zhengyong published a signed article in March 2014, talking about "putting an end to discounts, choices, and adaptations" in implementing the central government's decisions and deployments. He even wrote, "No matter how ambitious the goals set are,, How tempting is the promise given, but if you say it but don't do it, decide but don't do it, and don't grasp it tightly, it means nothing.He handed in a "zero score" answer sheet to the party and the people for serious violations of discipline and law, and was characterized as a shameful political two-faced person and two-faced man.Leading cadres must have a deep understanding that formalism and bureaucracy are symptoms, and a lack of politics is the foundation.

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A reporter from the Beijing News noticed that since the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission published the news that Zhao Zhengyong was undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission on January 15, many official media have commented on the matter.

On January 16, the day after Zhao Zhengyong was dismissed, the China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Newspaper published the article Zhao Zhengyong Under Investigation: A vivid manifestation of the overwhelming victory in consolidating development. The article stated: Only two days after the closing of the third plenary session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Shaanxi ProvinceFormer Party Secretary Zhao Zhengyong was “lost”!This is a vivid manifestation of the overwhelming victory in consolidating and developing the anti-corruption struggle, and fully demonstrates the firm determination of the Party Central Committee with Comrade... as the core to comprehensively and strictly govern the party and carry out the anti-corruption struggle to the end without stopping.

The article stated that there is no privilege in observing discipline and there are no exceptions in enforcing discipline.Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party has had the courage to face its own problems, with the determination and will to eliminate all factors that undermine the party's advanced nature and purity, and resolutely punish corruption with a zero-tolerance attitude, emphasizing that lsquo;For corrupt elements, we must resolutely investigate and deal with them when we find them; special organizations and special party members who are not subject to discipline will never be allowed to exist in the party.The investigation and punishment of Zhao Zhengyong once again shows that no matter who he is, no matter how high his position, how senior he is, how big his background is, whether he is currently serving, leaving office, or retired, as long as he violates party discipline and state law, he must be investigated to the end without mercy.

On January 17, Xinhuanet published Wen Xin Shiping: Resolutely Eliminate Two-faced People. The article wrote: On the evening of January 15, the news that Zhao Zhengyong, the former secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, had been dismissed from office flooded the screen.Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has investigated and dealt with many leading cadres who violated disciplines and regulations, many of whom are "two-faced people".People are familiar with this type of people, and their divided lives are often impressive: they shout anti-corruption on their lips but engage in corruption behind their backs;Showing prestige in public; appearing very honest but actually being too greedy...

The article states that the ancients said that you can know people by their faces but not their hearts.Two-faced people pretend to be serious, hide deeply, and are highly concealable and confusing.It is precisely because of this that the incubation period of two-faced people is generally longer and the harm is greater.To consolidate and develop the overwhelming victory in the fight against corruption, an important task is to identify and eliminate double-dealing people, so as to clear the source of political ecology.