There is such a "mine king" who once owned the title of the richest man in Yunnan and Guangxi, but he was also sentenced to 20 years in prison for concealing the major mining accident that killed 81 people.
More than a dozen officials who were with him were dragged into the water by him, and single-handedly led to a complete "great change" in the Guangxi prison system.
He himself was released soon after being taken in, spending only four years in prison.
After his release from prison, he made a comeback, and by the time of his death, he had about three billion assets.
He has also been named a national "excellent entrepreneur" and a national "model worker"
From poor boys to mining entrepreneurs, to prisoners, and finally to the richest man, what is behind this.
"Mine King" Li Dongming, unusually low-key "yunnan richest man"
Some media mentioned that there is a mysterious richest man in Yunnan who "never accepts" media interviews, and the company's legal representative is his nephew.
The position of chairman and general manager is not his own name, or even his relative, he is mysterious and secretive, manipulating the company's affairs behind the scenes.
Dressed unusually plainly, always wearing plastic sandals, coarse cloth socks, pants only about 20 yuan.
A shirt was worn for several years, and the chef was not even allowed to put meat oil in cooking.
Such an image seems to have nothing to do with the names of "mine king" and "richest man", but Li Dongming has done it.
Before starting his business, he had been a substitute teacher in Guangxi for ten years, and he saw that this life was about to pass like this, but the gold could not hide the sharp edge.
In 1985, Nandan County, the "Xidu", was in the environment of the country's waste and waiting to be rebuilt, which allowed Li Dongming to see the opportunity.
In 1987, the thirty-three-year-old "mine king" Li Dongming embarked on his entrepreneurial road.
With the strong support of national policies, Li Dongming had the idea of cutting gold from the soil, and he set up his first mining plant.
The first time he started a business, Li Dongming's experience was obviously insufficient, he did not operate the operation of the mine, and soon there was an economic crisis in the mine.
Li Dongming's first entrepreneurial experience has not yet begun to end, he was originally borrowing money to start a business, but when the repayment date came, he could not come up with money, and was chased by creditors to hide in Tibet.
The three years of debt hiding were the darkest memories of his life, and he couldn't even get his salary after the mine went bankrupt, and even in these three years he didn't step into the house.
In the past three years, he has not given up his dream of being the "king of minerals", and Li Dongming has been waiting, waiting for an opportunity for a salted fish to turn over and jump into the dragon gate.
The opportunity came quietly in 1990, and Li Dongming had already laid the bait and waited for the opportunity to take the bait.
The Nandan County government released the news that for the sake of Nandan's economic development needs, it was decided to vigorously develop the local Longshan mine.
This is the opportunity that Li Dongming has been waiting for for three years, the big fish has bitten the hook, and Li Dongming is already ready to close the line.
With the support of the local government in Nandan, Li Dongming began his second entrepreneurial road, and the "Longquan Smelting Plant" officially appeared in people's vision.
It is said that the second attempt to fail is the beginning of success, and after learning the first lesson, Li Dongming's whole person is different.
Under the support of the government, the "Longquan Smelting Plant" is equipped with excellent employees, advanced equipment, coupled with the management experience summarized by Li Dongming, the factory will soon operate with sound and color.
Ten years later, the "Longquan Smelting Plant" has become one of the largest mining plants in China at that time by virtue of its own strength.
Even though he has already sat on assets of 450 million yuan and become the richest man in Guangxi, Li Dongming still has not let go of his simple nature.
He is still the head of the 20 yuan line, there is no boss shelf for employees, and when workers greet him, Li Dongming will show a friendly smile.
In his factory, workers receive almost the highest wages in the industry, and such bosses make employees feel very happy and even pull relatives to work.
But who would have thought that such a boss would actually embark on a path of breaking the law and committing crimes for the sake of profit.
Conceal the 81 dead mine disaster and force the reporter to the edge of the cliff
In 2001, seeing that his mine had such a grand scene, Li Dongming's interests emerged and embarked on the criminal road of mine theft.
On July 17 of that year, what came to be known as the 7.17 Guangxi South DanDa Water Permeability Accident occurred.
As the boss, Li Dongming, knowing that the scope of operation has not yet eliminated safety hazards, arranged more than 500 miners to work in the 180-meter underground mine.
The workers did not realize that a catastrophe was about to befall them.
The workers who were working normally at three o'clock in the morning heard a loud noise, and they looked up to see a large amount of groundwater gushing out from above, and the light bulbs in the mine instantly exploded when they touched the water, and the mine below the 180 meters fell into darkness.
The workers had no choice but to fear, and a large amount of groundwater instantly flooded the seven adjacent mines, engulfing the lives of 81 workers.
Infuriatingly, Li Dongming did not report to the local area in time, and it was not until 14 hours later that Li Dongming dialed the county phone unhurriedly.
Mo Zhuanglong, the deputy secretary in charge of mine safety, did not meet with Li Dongming until eight o'clock in the evening, and the two muttered to discuss countermeasures.
Li Dongming intentionally or unintentionally revealed that he can try to appease the emotions of the family, as long as he ensures that the family does not make trouble, the above is most likely not found.
As long as the above is not found, the mining work in the mine does not have to stop, after all, there are many economic losses in a day of suspension.
At nine o'clock that night, Deputy Secretary Mo Zhuanglong reported the incident to Wan Zhongrui, secretary of the county party committee, but only about 40 people were reported in terms of casualties.
Wan Zhongrui, secretary of the county party committee, informed Tang Yusheng, who was the former county magistrate of Nandan County at the time, that night.
On the evening of July 18, several people made a decision after some deliberation, concealing it and not reporting it, and the follow-up work was concealed.
None of the four people at the time wanted to "get into trouble", and after the accident, they reassured the mine family and tried to minimize the impact of the incident.
But the paper can not contain the fire after all, after reporting, some media know what happened, so they sent reporters to secretly visit and investigate.
After the reporter arrived at the scene, he was stunned by the speed of Li Dongming's reaction, only to see that all the people in the mining area were strong thugs.
With such a tight alert, almost a fly did not want to fly out, and the shock of the scene made the reporter now think of being afraid.
The reporter had a hard time entering the scene, and before he could ask a few questions, he was alerted, and after being discovered by the security guards, he was chased to the edge of the cliff by a team of thugs, and had to throw his press card into the cliff out of the need for self-protection.
When more and more media received news and reports, the punishment of the law eventually fell on the four people.
It took about ten days for the government agencies to get the news, which immediately attracted the great attention of the authorities.
The three-month strict search made it impossible for any lawbreaker to escape the punishment of the law.
The prison was just a formality, and after the comeback, I bought the whole counter of leather shoes
During the 3-month investigation, Li Dongming's Laodice was turned over, and he not only concealed the accident, but also colluded with the criminal and evil forces.
After a close investigation, 128 responsible persons were held criminally responsible.
On June 5, 2002, the Intermediate People's Court of Nanning City, Guangxi Province, held a trial of the main criminals who caused the accident.
Wan Zhongrui, former secretary of the Nandan County Party Committee, was sentenced to death, former county magistrate Tang Yusheng was sentenced to 29 years in prison and decided to carry out 20 years, and Deputy Secretary Mo Zhuanglong was sentenced to 11 years in prison and decided to execute for 10 years.
Li Dongming appealed for illegal mining, major liability accidents, obstruction of testimony and bribery by units, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, after which Li Dongming began his journey to serve his sentence.
After he entered the prison, he was arranged to work in the library, and the clear-eyed people at that time knew the facts at a glance, and the library of this prison was donated by Li Dongming's "Longquan Smelting Factory" a few years ago with tens of thousands of yuan.
The work of the library can be said to be the easiest job in prison, and Li Dongming's life in prison is almost to recuperate his body.
Since 2001, his family has been actively applying for medical parole for Lai Dongming, which eventually led to Li Dongming's early end of his prison life.
How did Li Dongming, who was in good health, obtain the qualification of "medical parole"? There is only one answer – "pretending to be mentally ill."
Li Dongming was able to successfully get inextricably linked to a man, xiong Chengren, who served as the vice president of the hospital, and in 2004, Li Dongming's family found him.
Xiong Chengren began to guide Li Dongming to "perform" driven by huge interests, Li Dongming is a good "actor", after guidance, he successfully became a qualified "schizophrenic patient".
Xiong Chengren took advantage of his position outside the hospital to revise Li Dongming's medical records, and with his help, the identity of "late-onset schizophrenia" was confirmed.
On May 29, 2006, Li Dongming walked out of prison.
Such a felon, facing a 20-year sentence, only spent less than 4 years in prison.
Li Dongming did not delay his way to make money in prison, as early as three years before the mining disaster, he had already purchased several metal mines in Mengzi, Yunnan.
The profits from these minerals were not good before Li Dongming was imprisoned, but in the years when Li Dongming was imprisoned, things took a turn for the better.
At that time, the large number of mines was not mined in large quantities because the technical difficulties had not yet been broken, and soon after Li Dongming was imprisoned, the technical difficulties were broken.
This brought great benefits to those gold mines, and Li Dongming did not delay his collection of money in prison.
Coincidentally, the international import and export of non-ferrous metals industry in those years, the price continued to remain high.
In 2005, the value of the Mengzi gold mines controlled by Li Dongming increased several times.
As Li Dongming's sideline, mengzi gold minerals are worth nearly 1 billion yuan, far more than the Nandan mining and smelting on which he relied for survival at that time.
In this way, Li Dongming once again won the position of the richest man, this time his name appeared on the 2009 Hurun Rich List.
In the face of the fierce media and reporters, Li Dongming did not change his modest and low-key nature, and he never showed his face in the face of reporters.
There was also an interesting rumor at the time that Li Dongming was dressed too plainly, and when he came to a luxury store to buy leather shoes, he was ridiculed by the waiter.
Saying that Li Dongming could not afford to buy the leather shoes in their store, Li Dongming bought all the luxury leather shoes on the counter in one go.
Li Dongming also did good things after making money, not only donating schools, but also donating a lot of materials to poor areas, and various charitable donation organizations have received his donations.
Single-handedly exchanged the entire Guangxi prison system
What Li Dongming could not have imagined was that the anti-corruption storm of the Eighteenth National Congress could be rolled into himself.
Under the policy of vigorously advocating anti-corruption, Yunnan Province also began anti-corruption work, and soon a number of senior officials in Yunnan were arrested.
At this time, someone reported that Li Dongming had an unclear relationship with several high-ranking officials in Yunnan.
Li Dongming's mysterious release from prison at that time aroused suspicion in Guangxi, and eventually detonated the Guangxi prison nest case.
Of course, things are not so simple, Li Dongming can get out of prison, of course, can not escape his several good big brothers, three of which helped Li Dongming the most.
Liang Zhenlin and Li Dongming have long known each other, and in 2002, Liang Zhenlin, then director of the Guangxi Prison Administration, became one of the springboards for Li Dongming's release from prison.
In 2001, Zhong Shifan, then party secretary of the Guangxi Prison Bureau, was another elder brother of Mr. Li who abused his power to help Mr. Li apply for medical parole.
Zeng Aidong was the secretary and prison director of Yingshan Prison during His imprisonment in Lai Dong Ming, and in order to seek personal gain, he helped Li Dong Ming escape the supervision of the law.
In addition to Zhong Shifan, Liang Zhenlin and Zeng Aidong, 13 other officials and staff members of the Guangxi prison system participated in the meeting, who either derelicted their duties, abused their powers, or issued false certification materials to help Li Dongming obtain a commutation of sentence and medical parole.
On December 5, 2016, the three were tried in public by the Guangxi Zhuang Court, and immediately confessed to the crime, and after investigating the case of Li Dongming's illegal release from prison, 16 people were involved, and these people were eventually punished by law.
After this incident, the Guangxi prison system almost underwent a complete and complete blood change.
In June 2019, Li Dongming ended his legendary life, and can only say that Li Dongming brought us a warning.
We should learn from the experience and lessons of history, the Skynet has been restored, neglect has not been leaked, and the law will never spare any person who has violated the law and committed crimes.
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