Elephant News reporter Lu Huaitao
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission and the Central Radio and Television Corporation jointly produced the TV special "Zero Tolerance", and on the evening of January 19, the fifth episode of "Forever on the Road" was broadcast, which listed the cases of Zhou Jiangyong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial CPC Committee and former secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal CPC Committee.
Zhejiang is a region where the market economy is active, and some leading cadres have the problem of engaging in "one family, two systems." Zhou Jiangyong, as a high-ranking cadre who grew up after the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, did not escape from "local characteristics", and this even belonged to this situation: he and his younger brother Zhou Jianyong engaged in politics and business, and used public power to help his brother in business.
His younger brother Zhou Jianyong is a teacher at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, but he is not satisfied with the Lide tree, and he envies the life of successful people in the business world. As early as 2006, Zhou Jianyong set up a chemical company part-time, starting in Xiangshan County, Ningbo City, where Zhou Jiangyong was the "number one" at the time, for reasons that are self-evident.
The first bucket of gold seized by the brothers Zhou Jiangyong and Zhou Jianyong was based on the trading of power and money. "At that time, Zhou Jiangyong was the secretary of the Xiangshan County Party Committee, and he found a local private enterprise to provide funds, land, and equipment, and his brother came up with so-called technology." Zeng Kexiao, a staff member of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission and the State Supervision Commission, said.
This private enterprise under the instruction of Zhou Jiangyong, and Zhou Jianyong "cooperation" to open Ningbo Xiangrun Petrochemical Technology Co., Ltd., the so-called "cooperation" is actually just a cover, soon Xiangrun Petrochemical Company became Zhou Jianyong independent contract, but still for a long time free use of the private enterprise's land, plant and equipment.
Through the exemption of lease royalties, over the years, this private enterprise in Xiangshan County has transferred more than seven million yuan in benefits to the Zhou Jiangyong brothers. Correspondingly, Zhou Jiangyong used his authority to help the company in obtaining land.
"This rent has never been paid, and with this relationship, I will use it." Leaving Zhou Jiangyong, will he? People don't. Younger brother Zhou Jianyong said.
Zhou Jianyong then opened Yongrun Petrochemical Technology Co., Ltd. in the name of "cooperation" with fellow villager Zhou Wenyong and others, Zhou Jianyong accounted for 40% of the shares, in fact, the registered capital and capital increase he should pay totaled more than 14 million yuan, all of which zhou Wenyong paid on his behalf.
The reason why these bosses are willing to pay huge sums of money to "cooperate" with Zhou Jianyong is also to climb the patron of Zhou Jiangyong.
Zhou Jiangyong did spare no effort to act as a backer for his brother's affiliated enterprises. He not only helped in business operations, but even intervened in the judiciary to help his brother's Yongrun company evade criminal penalties in the environmental pollution case.
In 2014, in order to save costs, Yongrun Company illegally handed over the waste residue after refining oil to unqualified enterprises for "treatment", which was actually transported to Shandong and dumped in farmland. The Shandong police formally filed a case, traced back to the source to find Yongrun Company, Zhou Jiangyong in order to let his brother's company get a light treatment, so he used his position to influence, snatched the jurisdiction of the case, let the Ningbo police file a case for investigation.
Zhou Jianyong threw himself into the business sea, and also gave various merchants the opportunity to use him to hunt Zhou Jiangyong. Shi Shihong, the owner of a construction company, is one of them.
Shi Shihong took the initiative to find a relationship to get acquainted with Zhou Jianyong, and Zhou Jianyong also helped Shi Shihong contract the project through his brother, and the brothers jointly accepted huge bribes and then invested in the family business as capital.
From 2013 to 2017, Zhou Jiangyong successively provided assistance to Shi Shihong in a number of projects involving Zhoushan and Wenzhou, in accordance with zhou Jianyong's entrustment, and his younger brother Zhou Jianyong accepted money from Shi Shihong eight times in the name of "borrowing", with a total amount of more than 90 million yuan.
After Zhou Jiangyong became the secretary of the Zhoushan Municipal Party Committee, he thought he could evade supervision by setting up a "firewall." In the process of accepting bribes from Shi Shihong, he and Shi Shihong never had contact, and they all used their brothers as a bridge.
The specific operation is: Shi Shihong's company does not directly take the project, but first finds some large central enterprises and state-owned enterprises with Zhou Jianyong, promises to help them find Zhou Jiangyong to take the project, and after the fact, some of the projects will be handed over to Shi Shihong's company to do. Zhou Jiangyong took projects for some large central enterprises and state-owned enterprises, which also seemed to be justified.
Zhou Jiangyong felt that he had a good cover, to promote economic development, to care about supporting large enterprises, and to take advantage of his brother in this way behind his back, so he thought it was not easy to expose.
"After I met with the heads of state-owned enterprises and central enterprises, my brother contacted other enterprises, and together they subcontracted and subcontracted projects from central enterprises and state-owned enterprises." Zhou Jiangyong said.
In February 2017, Zhou Jiangyong was transferred to the secretary of the Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee, in 2018, Youcheng United Company obtained part of the project of Wenzhou Metro Mobile Payment System through Zhou Jianyong; in 2019, Zhou Jiangyong was transferred to the Secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, and in November 2019, Youcheng United Company invested in the establishment of Hangzhou Railway Youcheng Technology Co., Ltd. as a major shareholder.
In this process, Zhou Jianyong is also keen to make friends with various bosses, ostensibly to sell high-tech concepts, but in fact to peddle Zhou Jiangyong's power. Some enterprises also hope to bind Zhou Jiangyong through Zhou Jianyong, so they adopt the method of "low value and high investment" to purchase part of the equity of Zhou Jianyong at an obviously unreasonable high price.
Zhou Jiangyong provided assistance to these enterprises in obtaining low-cost land and preferential policies. "You use me, I use you, and the essence behind the transfer of benefits is the transaction of power and capital."
Zhou Jiangyong was born in a peasant family, under the cultivation of the organization and his own efforts, step by step to become a deputy provincial cadre, should have cherished the rare career opportunities, the opportunity of the times, but unfortunately, in the process of promotion, he gradually willful use of power, deviating from the original intention.
During his tenure as secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Zhou Jiangyong once said publicly at a meeting: "This is an era of capable officials, and this is a city that can do things." Being able to work in such an era and in such a city is the supreme glory of each of our cadres and a major test for each of our cadres. He himself, on the other hand, actually failed to stand the test.