Indulging in illegal mining and treating the briber as a close friend
The first episode of the four-episode TV feature "Right Wind and Anti-Corruption Is Around" will be broadcast on CCTV's comprehensive channel on the evening of the 21st. The first episode of "Political Supervision" is about the dereliction of duty and corruption of leading cadres and public officials behind the illegal coal mining incident in the Muli mining area. The investigation and handling of the situation.
Wen Guodong, former member of the party group and deputy governor of the Qinghai Provincial People's Government, former secretary of the Haixi Prefecture Committee, and former secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Qaidam Circular Economy Pilot Zone, appeared to speak.
As early as August and September 2014, the Party Central Committee issued important instructions continuously to resolutely stop destructive mining in the Muli mining area and restore the environment. After that, it has issued important instructions on this issue several times.
However, in August 2020, the media reported that a company named Xingqing Company was still illegally mining coal in Muli under the name of ecological restoration, and the damage was shocking.
Wen Guodong, the former deputy governor of Qinghai Provincial Government, former secretary of the Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Committee, and former secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Qaidam Circular Economy Pilot Zone, was formally filed and investigated by the State Supervisory Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in September 2020.
The Muli mining area is under the direct management of Haixi Prefecture and the Qaidam Circular Economy Pilot Zone, while Wen Guodong ideologically ignores ecological protection, but hopes to end the renovation and expand coal development as soon as possible.
Wen Guodong (former secretary of Haixi Prefecture Committee, former vice governor of Qinghai Province):
What I considered at the time was the small economic account, not the big account of environmental protection.
Without this political position, protection and development are still opposed.
Wen Guodong’s repeated strong adjustments should not affect development and development. The Haixi Prefecture Committee clearly stated that Haixi Prefecture should be turned into a coal development and coal chemical industry cluster of 100 billion yuan, and an industry on the Tibetan Plateau. As a major town, these concepts and practices are clearly deviating from the direction of the renovation and protection of the Muli mining area. There are dual reasons behind this.
Song Gaiping (Deputy Director of the Eighth Supervision and Inspection Office of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection): The
first is driven by political interests.
He believes that continuous political progress still requires so-called political achievements.
The second is driven by improper economic interests.
He supports Ma Shaowei to dig coal, and Ma Shaowei in turn conveys economic benefits to him.
Wen Guodong and Ma Shaowei are both from Huangzhong County, Xining. They knew each other in their hometown. At that time, Wen Guodong was the secretary of the county party committee secretary, and Ma Shaowei was already in business. He felt that Wen Guodong had room for improvement in his career, so he took the initiative to win relations. .
After that, Wen Guodong successively served as the organization minister of the Haixi prefectural party committee and the secretary of the Yushu prefectural party committee. Ma Shaowei has also been managing this relationship with his heart. From time to time, he arranges dinner parties at his place of office, and also presents red envelope gifts during the Chinese New Year. Guodong also regarded this fellow as a close friend.
Wen Guodong (former secretary of Haixi Prefecture Committee, former vice governor of Qinghai Province):
30 years of relationship, beyond a friendship, because we have been too long, it feels like the two of us are conjoined.
I feel that I believe in him like I believe in myself.
In July 2015, Wen Guodong was transferred to the secretary of the Haixi Prefecture Party Committee, just as Xingqing Company started illegal coal mining in the name of slope management. Ma Shaowei immediately felt that the relationship of many years of business could come in handy.
Ma Shaowei (controller of Xingqing Company):
Wen Guodong has a relationship with Haixi. He is the secretary of the state party committee, which is equivalent to our fellow villager. If he affirms his support in this respect, the relationship will be hardened.
This so-called friendship with fellow villagers and friends is actually based on interests.
The red envelopes that Ma Shaowei gave to Wen Guodong for New Year's greetings were not large. In the first Spring Festival when Wen Guodong took office as Secretary of the Haixi Prefecture Party Committee, Ma Shaowei's red envelopes rose to 200,000.
Wen Guodong (Former Deputy Governor of Qinghai Province, Former Secretary of Haixi Prefecture Committee):
He brought 200,000 yuan with him during the Chinese New Year in 2016.
He said that this kind of relationship between us, why are you polite.
One is a fluke, and the other is selfishness, which opens this gap.
Hei Jin continued to open up the gap, and Wen Guodong had accepted Ma Shaowei's bribes of tens of millions by the time of the incident, which naturally sheltered him.
Many relevant leading cadres in Haixi Prefecture knew that the illegal exploitation of Xingqing Company was intensifying, but because they knew that Ma Shaowei and Wen Guodong had a close relationship, they went around this problem.
In 2017, Li Yongping, the new director of the Muli Coalfield Administration, did not understand the background of Xingqing Company, and once banned illegal mining.
Ma Shaowei immediately found Wen Guodong and asked him to come forward to the Yumuli Coalfield Management Bureau and the management committee of the Qaidam Experimental Zone to participate in the dinner to help him remove obstacles.
Ma Shaowei (controller of Xingqing Company):
I asked Wen Guodong to make an appointment for a meal, that is, I hope they will support our company's illegal production in Muli. The Secretary of the State Party Committee asked him, and he still has to come.
Wen Guodong took the initiative to make an appointment for the Ma Shaowei platform, saying that based on the situation reported by the Muli Coalfield Administration, Xingqing Company re-reported the optimized governance plan, which in fact further expanded the scale of illegal mining.
Wen Guodong has repeatedly urged relevant leading cadres to expedite the research and approval of this plan.
Under Wen Guodong's intervention, Xingqing Company soon resumed illegal mining again.
Li Yongping, the former director of the Muli Coalfield Administration who had previously stopped mining, also turned his head and began to accept bribes from Ma Shaowei; more than 10 people including Ma Shengquan, former deputy director of the Administration, Liang Yanguo, executive deputy director of the Qaidam Circular Economy Pilot Zone Management Committee, were also arrested. Detecting acceptance of bribes and becoming a community of interests provide protection for illegal coal mining.
Under the circumstance of failure of various levels of supervision, Xingqing Company, which has no mining license, has illegally mined 11.95 million tons of coal since 2007.
Wen Guodong knew that Ma Shaowei had been mining illegally, but he never asked him how to mine and how serious the environmental impact was.
It was not until the incident occurred in August 2020 that he went to the illegal mining site for the first time and witnessed the scars caused by his actions on the ecological environment for the first time.
Wen Guodong (former secretary of Haixi Prefecture Committee, former vice governor of Qinghai Province): For the
first time, I was really dumbfounded when I saw the pit.
The surrounding grassland is green, the blue sky and white clouds are still in the distance, and the big black pits underneath are suddenly dark. Without those data, you can see that it is very serious with your eyes. The more you look, the more serious you look, and the more you look, the more you are afraid.
The first reaction is to feel that the sky is falling, and I feel like a disaster.
No amount of confession can undo the environmental consequences that have been caused.
A few days ago, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate made a decision to arrest Wen Guodong on suspicion of accepting bribes.
Many relevant leading cadres are under review and investigation, and Ma Shaowei, the actual controller of Xingqing Company, has also been taken coercive measures by the public security organs.
The Qinghai Provincial Party Committee and Government issued the "Three-year Action Plan for the Comprehensive Improvement of the Ecological Environment in the Muli Mining Area and the Qinghai Area at the Southern Foot of the Qilian Mountains."
The industrial and mining enterprises in the Muli mining area were completely shut down, the Muli Coalfield Administration was abolished, and the Muli Coalfield Ecological Protection Bureau was established to fully perform the special responsibility of ecological environmental protection supervision.