China News Service, Beijing, March 17 (Zhang Su, Xie Yanbing) On the 17th, Chinese officials launched another "Tiger" attack on the weekend.
Li Xiangang, a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is subject to review and investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.
This is the third "Tiger" notice issued by Chinese officials within five days.
Within this week, Li Yong, former deputy party secretary and general manager of China National Offshore Oil Corporation, and Li Jiping, former party committee member and vice president of China Development Bank, were informed on the 15th and 13th respectively that they were under review and investigation.
After the conclusion of the National Two Sessions in 2024, three "tiger" attacks were carried out in five days from March 13 to 17, highlighting China's continued and unabated anti-corruption efforts.
The frequent heavy blows in China's anti-corruption campaign also reveal that the current anti-corruption work has further focused on key personnel, key areas and prominent issues.
Li Jiping is the first central management cadre to be dismissed after the National Two Sessions this year.
Li Jiping has worked for China Development Bank for many years, and many senior executives of the bank have been investigated before.
Recently, Zhou Qingyu, the former vice president of the China Development Bank, and Wang Yongsheng, the former vice president of the China Development Bank, were prosecuted and arrested by the procuratorate respectively.
The Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team stationed at the China Development Bank has previously analyzed multiple corruption cases involving cadres at the China Development Bank. It believes that the individuals involved have high ranks, have been corrupt for a long time, have many series of cases, are frequent in the credit infrastructure field, and are mainly "post-50s" and "post-60s". It has typical characteristics such as the trend of younger people, serious problems of corruption and corruption, and prominent new hidden corruption.
Like Li Jiping, Li Yong was investigated after retirement and had worked for CNOOC Systems for a long time.
According to the official website of CNOOC, the company is a very large state-owned enterprise established with the approval of the State Council and is also the largest offshore oil and gas production operator in China.
For some time, China has continued to strengthen its anti-corruption efforts in the field of state-owned and central enterprises.
According to the 2023 state-owned central enterprise discipline inspection and supervision data released this week by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, in the past year, state-owned central enterprise discipline inspection and supervision agencies have opened 411 cases to review and investigate party group (party committee) management cadres, and imposed party discipline and government sanctions on 375 people, and transferred them to the judiciary. There are 109 people in the agency, and relevant data have increased significantly compared with the same period in previous years.
When the plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection held at the beginning of this year made arrangements for the 2024 annual inspection and supervision work, it called for continued and in-depth advancement of the anti-corruption struggle, serious investigation and punishment of corruption issues in the fields of finance, state-owned enterprises and other fields, and pointed out that "severely punishing corruption involving political and business collusion should be the top priority in the battle." "Essential" and deepen the rectification of corruption issues in finance, state-owned enterprises, energy and other fields.
Zhuang Deshui, deputy director of the Public Policy Research Center of Peking University, said that targeting key areas with concentrated power, intensive funds, and rich resources to fight corruption shows that the government maintains a clear understanding of the fight against corruption and has stepped up anti-corruption efforts in key areas related to the national economy and people's livelihood to create a deterrent. .
The reporter noticed that Chinese officials are also focusing on responding to new situations and trends in the fight against corruption.
For example, the procuratorial organs continue to increase the intensity of crackdowns and punishments on new crimes committed through transactional means and hidden crimes with concealed means.
For example, Liu Handong, a former member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial People’s Congress, included statements such as “engaging in new types of corruption and hidden corruption” in his Party Discipline and Government Affairs Punishment Notice.
On the 13th, the Supreme People's Procuratorate announced that it had made a decision to arrest him on suspicion of bribery and abuse of power.
Peng Xinlin, a professor at Beijing Normal University Law School, said that new corruption and hidden corruption have the characteristics of indirect corruption, circle of corrupt subjects, concealment of interest realization methods, intertwined corruption and corruption, and long incubation period of harm, making it easy to detect and It is more difficult to investigate and deal with, and the harm is deeper.
In this regard, governance strategies and measures must be formulated in a targeted manner, such as focusing on key areas such as engineering construction, project approval, and resource transactions, comprehensively sorting out integrity risk points, and accurately formulating integrity risk prevention and control measures.
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