Gou Zhongwen, former director of the State General Administration of Sports of China,

(Beijing Comprehensive News) Gou Zhongwen, member of the Standing Committee of the Fourteenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was investigated for suspected serious disciplinary violations. He was the director of the State General Administration of Sport of China and was responsible for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

According to the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on Thursday (May 30), it is also the deputy director of the National and Religious Commission Gou Zhongwen, suspected of serious disciplinary violations, and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervision and investigation.

Interface News reported that Gou Zhongwen is the highest -level official of the Chinese sports system that has set off since the anti -corruption storm.This round of anti -corruption began in the field of football. In November 2022, with the original coach of the Chinese men's national team, Li Tie was investigated, and a new round of football anti -corruption opened the curtain.

Public information shows that the 67 -year -old Gou Zhongwen was the deputy minister of China, deputy mayor of Beijing, and deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China.In 2016, he served as the director of the State General Administration of Sports, the chairman of the Chinese Olympic Committee, and the executive chairman of the Organization Committee of the Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics Organization Committee in Beijing.He was selected into the Central Committee of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2017.

In August 2022, Gou Zhongwen, who was 65 years old, was removed from the position of director of the State General Administration of Sports.In March 2023, Gou Zhongwen was elected as the Standing Committee of the Fourteenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Surging News reported that during the period of the director of the State General Administration of Sport, Gou Zhongwen experienced the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022.Gou Zhongwen has also repeatedly emphasized sports reforms many times, requiring the selection of national players, in a fair, fair, open, and transparent way to cancel leadership intervention and eliminate dark box operations.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced in March last year to conduct a mobile inspection of the Party Group of the State General Administration of Sports to conduct in -depth searching and promoting the problem of corruption in the field of sports, especially the football field, and deep -level system mechanisms.The General Administration of Sports held an anti -corruption work meeting every other month, and there was news at the time that Gou Zhongwen, who had retired to the second line, may be implicated.

The last public appearance of Gou Zhongwen was on May 22, and the CPPCC reported that he participated in the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on that afternoon.