Zhang Jinghua, former deputy secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, opened the trial in the first instance of the bribery case. Zhang Jinghua was accused of more than 49.84 million yuan (RMB, the same below, about S $ 9.23 million).

According to CCTV News, the Hubei Provincial Intermediate People's Court opened a trial of Zhang Jinghua's bribery on Thursday (July 27).

The People's Procuratorate of Wuhan City, Hubei Province accused, from 2008 to 2021, Zhang Jinghua used the director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Environmental Protection, Deputy Secretary and Mayor of Xuzhou Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Zhenjiang Municipal Party Committee, Secretary -General of the Jiangsu Provincial Government,Deputy Governor of the Jiangsu Provincial Government, Standing Committee Member of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Jiangbei New District of Nanjing, deputy secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, etc.The help of engineering contracting, project development, and job promotion can be helpful, and directly or through others illegally accepting property, a total of more than RMB 49.84 million.The procuratorial organs requested that Zhang Jinghua's criminal responsibility for bribery.

Zhang Jinghua expressed his confession in court, and the court announced the off -court and pronounced it.

Zhang Jinghua, 61, is from Taizhou, Jiangsu, and has always been in Jiangsu.He has served in the Jiangsu Provincial Planning and Economic Committee, the Provincial Economic and Trade Commission, and the SASAC.In 2010, he was promoted to the mayor of Xuzhou and the next year he was transferred to the secretary of the Zhenjiang Municipal Party Committee.Since 2013, Zhang Jinghua has been the secretary -general of the Jiangsu Provincial Government and promoted to the vice governor three years later.In 2017, he became a member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and also served as the secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee.

In February 2021, Zhang Jinghua was promoted to the full -time deputy secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, but in just nine months, he was transferred to the Deputy Secretary of the Party Group of the Provincial CPPCC.In May, he was double -opened (the Communist Party was expelled from the public office).