Chinanews.com, Beijing, March 25 (Reporter Kan Feng) On the afternoon of the 25th, another major "fighting tiger" news was announced, and Sheng Guangzu, the first "head" of Tie Zong who had been in office for more than 5 years, was investigated.

  According to the website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Sheng Guangzu, the former Secretary of the Party Group and General Manager of China Railway Corporation, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and is currently cooperating with the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in disciplinary review and supervision investigation.

Data map: Sheng Guangzu.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Peng Dawei

Deep ploughing of the railway system, 73-year-old was investigated

He was the last minister of the Ministry of Railways and the first "head" of the General Railway

  It has been more than 5 years since Sheng Guangzu retired.

  The public resume shows that Sheng Guangzu, who was born in April 1949, is 73 years old this year.

  Sheng Guangzu is an "old railway" with more than 30 years of railway work experience.

His railway career started in Nanjing Branch of Shanghai Railway Bureau. In 1994, Sheng Guangzu, who was 45 years old at the time, became a member of the party group of the former Ministry of Railways.

  Six years later, in April 2000, Sheng Guangzu transferred to the customs system and served as the deputy director of the General Administration of Customs. In July 2007, he was appointed Secretary of the Party Group of the General Administration of Customs, and later became the director of the General Administration of Customs, becoming a minister-level official.

  Sheng Guangzu was the focus of public opinion because he succeeded Liu Zhijun as the former Minister of Railways in 2011.

In February of that year, Liu Zhijun, the former Minister of Railways, was dismissed on suspicion of major violations of discipline, and Sheng Guangzu was transferred from the General Administration of Customs to the Ministry of Railways.

Two years later, in March 2013, the Ministry of Railways was abolished through the institutional reform of the State Council, and China Railway Corporation, a central enterprise, was established at the same time. "Head".

  Sheng Guangzu was 67 years old when he was in office as President Tie. He left in October 2016. In November of that year, he was appointed as the deputy chairman of the National People's Congress Financial and Economic Committee.

  It is worth mentioning that, compared with the "acceptance" of the review and investigation in most of the other officials under investigation, Sheng Guangzu's statement in the investigation news is "cooperating" with the review and investigation.

  You can search on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission. The central management cadres who were previously announced to "cooperate with the review and investigation of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission" were also Liu Shiyu, former deputy secretary of the party group and director of the board of directors of the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives. It is also clear that Liu Shiyu voluntarily surrendered.

Data map: On March 19, 2013, citizens took pictures in front of the building of the Ministry of Railways.

Photo by Zhang Hao issued by China News Agency

Zeng expressed his position to learn Liu Zhijun's painful lessons

Emphasizes "anti-corruption" and "safety" many times

  Eleven years ago, after succeeding Liu Zhijun as the "top leader" of the former Ministry of Railways, Sheng Guangzu faced a railway system with a large number of corruption cases, and the era of high-speed rail with a speed of 350 kilometers per hour.

  For a long time after taking office, an important task of Sheng Guangzu was to "clean up the influence of Liu Zhijun".

  When the National People's Congress was held in 2011, Sheng Guangzu, who had just taken the helm of the Ministry of Railways, made a high-profile statement to the media: "Liu Zhijun's case" has no impact on the construction of high-speed rail, and the construction speed of high-speed rail will not slow down.

  At that time, the media asked him what was the biggest challenge he faced when he was appointed as the Minister of Railways.

Sheng Guangzu's answer: "As the minister of the Ministry of Railways, it is my challenge to better serve the development of the national economy and society, serve the transportation of goods, and make the travel of the people convenient. This is my challenge."

  A few months later, Sheng Guangzu's "challenge" came.

On July 23, 2011, there was a rear-end collision accident on the Yongwen Railway, resulting in the death of 40 people, and Sheng Guangzu was pushed to the forefront again.

Since then, Sheng Guangzu has repeatedly emphasized "security" and "anti-corruption" on various occasions.

  For example, in October 2015, the Central Inspection Team reported the situation of the special inspection to the General Assembly. At that time, Sheng Guangzu stated that he would fully learn from the painful lessons of Liu Zhijun's case and completely eliminate its adverse effects.

Strengthen the source governance of key areas such as engineering construction, material procurement, and wagon tickets, strengthen the supervision of power-concentrated, capital-intensive, and resource-rich departments and positions, and prevent corruption from the source.

  In 2016, Sheng Guangzu resigned from the Railway General Manager. At the Railway General Work Conference at the beginning of that year, Sheng Guangzu, who was about to end his more than 30-year railway career, emphasized that safety is the lifeline of railway work, the railway's "rice bowl" project, and the foundation of all work. .

  After more than 5 years of retirement, Sheng Guangzu, who has repeatedly emphasized "safety", did not have a "safe landing".

Data map: Sheng Guangzu.

Photo by Hou Yu issued by China News Agency

Annual salary of 710,000

Responded to high-speed rail fares, box lunch prices, etc.

  In addition to learning the painful lessons of Liu Zhijun's case, after 2011, during the six years that Sheng Guangzu was at the helm of China Railway, he also frequently became the focus of public opinion due to topics such as train fares, train ticket grabbing, and high-speed rail lunch boxes.

  In 2012, China Railway's real-name system and online ticketing were officially launched simultaneously. At the National Two Sessions that year, Sheng Guangzu stated that the real-name system "still has a certain effect" on combating scalping.

  Regarding the high price of high-speed rail fares discussed by the public, in the last few days of serving as Minister of Railways at the National Two Sessions in 2013, Sheng Guangzu said in an interview that the average fare of China's railways is too low. Market rules, corporate operation to set fares.

  Regarding the "hard to get one ticket" for train tickets, during the National Two Sessions in 2014, Sheng Guangzu said that there should be a fair evaluation of the ticket grabbing software, "If everyone buys tickets in a good order and queues up to buy tickets, there will still be so many tickets. , it is the passenger's own ticket that is robbed."

  In response to the problem that passengers reported that the number of 15 yuan lunch boxes was not enough, during the National Two Sessions in 2016, Sheng Guangzu responded, "The railway department has always wanted to provide passengers with cheap and high-quality food, and consider increasing the supply of steamed buns, steamed buns and sandwiches."

  In 2016, Tie Zong announced the salary of the head of the company in 2015, and Sheng Guangzu's annual salary was 710,000.

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