China News Service, Beijing, April 2 (Reporter Kan Feng) On the morning of March 31, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission quoted Jiangxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission as saying that Xiao Zhihua, former deputy secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee Education and Work Committee, was fired for serious violations of discipline and law. Party membership, dismissal from public office.

  In the report, the discipline inspection department found out some of Xiao Zhihua's problems, which attracted much attention.

Xiao Zhihua.

Image source: Jiangxi Education TV Wechat Public Account

The official who used "teaching" for personal gain has been sacked

  The 56-year-old Xiao Zhihua is from Ji'an, Jiangxi Province. In 1987, the 21-year-old Xiao Zhihua returned to his hometown to become a middle school teacher after graduation. Since then, he has served as a teacher of the Party School of Ji'an County Party Committee, director of the teaching and research office, vice principal, and deputy director of the Party History Office of the Ji'an Prefectural Party Committee. , Assistant to the county magistrate (deputy county level) of the Ji'an County Government.

  From July 1999 to July 2002, Xiao Zhihua had a period of aid experience in Xinjiang, and served as deputy secretary of the Aheqi County Party Committee in Kezhou, Xinjiang, and deputy secretary-general of the Kezhou government.

  After returning from Xinjiang, he served as deputy secretary of the Ji'an County Party Committee, Suichuan County Mayor, and Yongfeng County Party Secretary.

In December 2013, 48-year-old Xiao Zhihua stepped into a department-level leadership position and served as the deputy director of the Education Department.

After 4 years in office, in November 2017, Xiao Zhihua served as the deputy secretary of the Education Working Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee.

  On December 24 last year, Xiao Zhihua was investigated.

Three months later, it was released with the news of "double opening".

  Judging from Xiao Zhihua's resume, he has been working in the Jiangxi education system for a long time, starting as a middle school teacher, and has been appointed to the provincial education department and teaching staff for 8 years.

  In the report of the discipline inspection department, Xiao Zhihua, who has been deeply involved in the education system, was accused of having a weak sense of purpose, undermining the fairness of education, relying on "education" to eat "education", using "education" for personal gain, and using shadow companies to gain profits in educational projects.

  In addition, in the report of the discipline inspection department, Xiao Zhihua was accused of violating political discipline, the spirit of the eight central regulations, organizational discipline, integrity discipline, work discipline, and life discipline.

  For example, "betraying the original mission, differing from the inside and outside, and deliberately resisting the organization's censorship", "using the power to benefit specific stakeholders in the recruitment of cadres", "regarding the party discipline and state law as a 'scarecrow'", "intervening in engineering projects and business operations, directly or illegally accepting huge amounts of property from others through a specific related person”, etc.

With greed, he once appealed to cadres to "accompany the family more"

  It is worth mentioning that the bulletin also mentioned that Xiao Zhihua "was unscrupulous and shameless, used power to seek sex, used greed to raise sex, engaged in power-sex trade, money-sex trade", "borrowed gambling to make money" and so on.

  As a leading cadre in the education system, Xiao Zhihua has repeatedly talked about the topic of cadres' clean government.

  In 2019, the Education Working Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Department of Education held a cadre meeting to make arrangements for changing customs and promoting the new style of the times, abiding by discipline, and safety and stability during the Spring Festival.

  At the meeting, Xiao Zhihua said, "We must spend more time with family members, carry forward the traditional virtues of filial piety and respect for the elderly, and practice rational, civilized and healthy consumption and human feelings; we must strengthen public awareness and take the lead in promoting and practicing socialism. Core values, carry forward the new trend of the times, and transmit positive energy for goodness."

  He also emphasized that it is necessary to strictly abide by the disciplinary requirements, strictly define the red line of iron discipline, and achieve "ten strict prohibitions", including that it is strictly forbidden to use public funds to buy, distribute, and give gifts during the festival, and it is strictly forbidden to participate in various "colorful" gambling and entertainment activities.

  On March 30 last year, Xiao Zhihua presided over a video conference on the work of comprehensively and strictly governing the party in the province's education system.

At that meeting, he asked to identify problems, calibrate deviations, make precise efforts, strengthen source governance, improve long-term mechanisms, accurately grasp the situation of the provincial education system's comprehensive and strict party governance and anti-corruption struggle, and put "strictness" as the main tone. Stick to it for a long time.

  A year later, the discipline inspection department pointed out that Xiao Zhihua's problem had constituted a serious violation of the law and was suspected of taking bribes. He still did not restrain and did not stop after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China or even the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The nature and the circumstances were serious and should be taken seriously. deal with.

Their fall, "the people applauded"

  Two months ago, Xiao Zhihua's name appeared in the work report of the Second Plenary Session of the 15th Jiangxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection.

  The report mentioned that in 2021, the discipline inspection and supervision organs in Jiangxi Province will file more than 20,000 cases and punish more than 19,800 people, including 51 bureau-level officials of the Provincial Disciplinary Commission’s case filing department, “seriously investigated and punished Ye Guobing, Liu Jifu, Zhou Caijian, Ni Meitang, Ye Hualin, Zhao Haidong, Hu Jiangping, Xiao Zhihua and other corrupt elements, the people applauded."

  For the work in 2022, the report mentioned that the governance of corruption in the fields of engineering construction, natural resources, ecological and environmental protection, education and medical care, and development zones will be carried out in depth.

  In addition, the report also calls for resolutely fighting against various dross cultures such as relationalism, dark-heartedness, arrogance, officialdom, and unspoken rules, and resolutely prevent and oppose sectarianism, circle culture, and dock culture.

Seriously investigate and deal with issues such as power and sex transactions, money and sex transactions, and take effective measures to promote awareness of shame and courtesy, and righteousness and virtue.

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