According to the News of the Supreme People's Procuratorate on April 7, Xu Ming, a former member of the party group and deputy director of the State Grain Administration, was prosecuted. According to prosecutors, Xu Ming was suspected of two crimes — bribery and using influence to accept bribes.
Xu Ming has worked in the Ministry of Commerce and Chongqing, and his career history overlaps with that of bo Xilai, the "big tiger" who fell from power, and he has served as a member of the Standing Committee and Secretary General of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee.
The procuratorate alleged that after leaving his post, Xu Ming also took advantage of the convenience of his former position as a member of the Standing Committee and secretary general of the Chongqing Municipal CPC Committee and other positions to amass wealth.
He worked in the Ministry of Commerce and Chongqing
Xu Ming, male, Han ethnicity, born in January 1958, 64 years old, from Fengyang, Anhui Province, began working in December 1975 and joined the Communist Party of China in December 1977.
Public resumes show that Xu Ming served as a zhiqing and a soldier in his early years.
After 1987, Xu Ming worked in the former State Economic Commission, the former State Planning Commission, the former Economic and Trade Office of the State Council, the former State Council Economic and Trade Commission and the Ministry of Commerce, and served as deputy director and director of the Department of Market System Construction of the Ministry of Commerce, director of the Policy Research Office, and director of the Comprehensive Department.
In April 2008, Xu Ming was transferred to Chongqing as deputy secretary general of the municipal party committee and director of the research office, and two years later (June 2010) he was promoted to secretary general of the Chongqing municipal party committee and concurrently served as the secretary of the party working committee of the municipal organ directly under the municipal government.
In December 2010, Xu Ming became a member of the Standing Committee of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and continued to serve as Secretary-General until December 2011. After that, he served as the secretary of the party working committee and the director of the management committee of Liangjiang New Area.
On June 22, 2012, the new leading group of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee was unveiled by 13 people, and Xu Ming did not enter the list of the new standing committee, but still served as the secretary of the party working committee and the director of the management committee of Liangjiang New Area.
One detail deserves attention.
Xu Ming's career history is closely related to the fallen "big tiger" Bo Xilai.
From June 2003 to April 2008, Xu Ming successively served as the main leader of the Department of Market System Construction and the Department of Comprehensive Department of the Ministry of Commerce. During this period, Bo Xilai served as minister of commerce and secretary of the party group.
In November 2007, Bo Xilai parachuted into Chongqing to serve as the secretary of the municipal party committee. In April 2008, Xu Ming followed him and became the deputy secretary-general of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and the director of the research office. In April 2012, Bo Xilai fell, and in June of the same year, Xu Ming ceased to be a member of the Standing Committee of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee.
After leaving Chongqing, Xu Ming went to Beijing.
At the two sessions of the National People's Congress in 2013, a reporter asked Huang Qifan, then mayor of Chongqing, about Xu Ming's new job, and Huang Qifan replied: "He has been transferred to Beijing. ”
In March 2013, Xu Ming returned to Beijing to serve as deputy director of the State Grain Administration, retaining the status of vice minister.
In March 2018, according to the State Council's institutional reform plan approved by the 13th National People's Congress, the responsibilities of the State Grain Administration were integrated, and the State Grain and Material Reserve Bureau was established, and the State Grain Administration was no longer retained, and Xu Ming retired.
After retirement, Xu Ming still participates in social activities normally.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2021, the main leaders of the State Grain and Material Reserve Bureau comforted the previous old leaders by telephone and other means. Xu Ming was also among the condolences.
Three years after retirement, in July 2021, Xu Ming fell.
Vainly discussing the major policies of the Party Central Committee
Zheng Zhijun noticed that after retirement, Xu Ming also received attention for the divorce lawsuit with his ex-wife for up to 3 years.
According to the civil judgments retrieved by the China Judgment Documents Network, Xu Ming sued for divorce twice in 2018 and 2019. The dispute between the two parties focuses on the right to use a house. On May 25, 2021, the Second Intermediate People's Court of Beijing Municipality ruled in the second instance that Xu's wife had moved out of the house involved in the case, and the house was ordered to be used by Xu Ming.
Shortly after the divorce, Xu Ming was announced by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to be deposed.
In January, Xu Ming was expelled from the party.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection reported that Xu Ming had vainly discussed the major policies of the party Central Committee and was keen on superstitious activities; had accepted property and property from private business owners in violation of the law, entered and left private clubs in violation of regulations and accepted banquets; failed to report personal matters in accordance with regulations; used the influence of his position to seek benefits for his sons' business activities; in order to pursue personal fame and profits and make many calculations, he regarded public power as a tool for grabbing private interests, vigorously engaged in power rent-seeking, used the convenience and influence of his position to seek profits for others in enterprise operations, project contracting, and promotions, and illegally accepted huge amounts of property.
A month later, Xu Ming was arrested.
After leaving his job, he still used his influence to accept bribes
On April 7, Xu Ming was indicted.
According to information disclosed by the Supreme People's Procuratorate, Xu Ming will be tried in Xiamen, Fujian Province. According to the prosecution's allegations, Xu Ming amassed wealth all the way from the director to the former deputy director of the State Grain Administration:
- Defendant Xu Ming took advantage of his position as director of the Foreign Investment Division of the former Department of Foreign Economic and Trade of the State Economic and Trade Commission, director and deputy director of the Department of Foreign-Funded Enterprises of the Department of Foreign Economic Coordination, deputy director and director of the Department of Market System Construction of the Ministry of Commerce, director of the Department of Comprehensive Department of the Ministry of Commerce, deputy secretary general and secretary general of the Chongqing Municipal CPC Committee, member and secretary general of the Standing Committee and secretary general of the Chongqing Municipal CPC Committee, and former member of the party leading group and deputy director of the State Grain Administration, to seek benefits for others, or to take advantage of the convenient conditions formed by his authority and position to act through the positions of other state functionaries Seeking improper benefits for others and illegally accepting property from others is particularly huge.
A special feature is also mentioned in the prosecution's indictment:
After Xu Ming left his post, he took advantage of the convenience of his former position as a member of the Standing Committee of the Chongqing Municipal CPC Committee and secretary general to seek improper benefits for others and illegally accepted money and property from others through the acts of other state functionaries, which was huge.
Such a statement also appeared in the indictment of Wang Fuyu, former chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference: After Wang Fuyu left his post, he took advantage of the convenient conditions formed by the former chairmanship of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to seek improper benefits for others and illegally accept huge amounts of money and property from others through the behavior of other state functionaries.
In January this year, Wang Fuyu was sentenced in a bribery case and using influence to accept bribes. Defendant Wang Fuyu was sentenced to death and his execution suspended for two years.
Further reading:
The Year of the Tiger was arrested by the fourth "Tiger"! Xu Ming was arrested for two crimes
On February 12, according to the official website of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, Xu Ming, a former member of the party group and deputy director of the State Grain Administration, was arrested. It involves two crimes, namely suspected of accepting bribes and using influence to accept bribes.
Xu Ming, male, Han ethnicity, born in January 1958, Fengyang, Anhui, began working in December 1975, joined the Communist Party of China in December 1977. He was a member of the party group and deputy director of the State Grain Administration.
Xu Ming was the fourth central management cadre arrested in the year of the tiger, and the top 3 "tigers" arrested in the year of the tiger were Cai Esheng, former member of the party committee and vice chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, Meng Xiang, former member of the adjudication committee of the Supreme People's Court and former director of the executive bureau, and Zhou Jiangyong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee.
After three years of retirement, he was investigated and accused of vainly discussing the major policies of the Party Central Committee
According to the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, on July 13, 2021, Xu Ming was investigated three years after retirement, and half a year later, on January 24, 2022, Xu Ming was expelled from the party.
After investigation, Xu Ming lost his ideals and convictions, betrayed his original mission, was disloyal to the party, vainly discussed the major policies of the party Central Committee, and was keen on superstitious activities; violated the spirit of the eight provisions of the central authorities, accepted property and property from private business owners in violation of the law, went in and out of private clubs in violation of regulations, and accepted banquets; did not report personal matters in accordance with regulations; used the influence of his position to seek benefits for his son's business activities; and was morally corrupt; in order to pursue personal fame and profit, he used public power as a tool to grab personal interests, vigorously engaged in power rent-seeking, and used the convenience and influence of his position to operate for others in enterprises 3. Seek profits in terms of project contracting and job promotion, and illegally accept huge amounts of money.
Xu Ming's serious violations of the Party's political, organizational, honest, and life discipline constitute serious violations of official duties and are suspected of accepting bribes and using influence to accept bribes, and he does not restrain himself or accept them after the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which is of a serious nature and has a bad impact, and should be dealt with severely. In accordance with the "Regulations on Disciplinary Punishment of the Communist Party of China," the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China," the "Law of the People's Republic of China on The Punishment of Public Employees in Government Affairs," and other relevant provisions, after being studied by the Standing Committee of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission and reported to the CPC Central Committee for approval, it was decided to give Xu Ming the punishment of expulsion from the party; to cancel the treatment he enjoyed in accordance with regulations; to confiscate his gains from violating discipline and the law; and to transfer his suspected crimes to the procuratorial organs for examination and prosecution in accordance with law, and to transfer the property involved.
He has successively served as the director of the General Department of the Ministry of Commerce, a member of the Standing Committee of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, and the deputy director of the State Grain
Xu Ming has served as director of the General Department of the Ministry of Commerce, member of the Standing Committee of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, and deputy director of the State Grain Administration.
According to the official resume, Xu Ming was born in January 1958, a native of Fengyang, Anhui Province, joined the work in December 1975, and in his early years he served as a young intellectual and a soldier, and after 1987, Xu Ming successively worked in the former State Economic Commission, the former State Planning Commission, the former State Council Economic and Trade Office, and the former State Council Economic and Trade Commission.
In June 2003, Xu Ming was appointed to the Ministry of Commerce, and successively served as the deputy director general of the Department of Market System Construction, the director of the Department of Policy Research, and the director of the Department of Comprehensive Affairs of the Ministry of Commerce.
In April 2008, Xu Ming was transferred to Chongqing Municipality, and successively served as deputy secretary general, secretary general, director of the research office, member of the standing committee of the municipal party committee, secretary of the party working committee of Liangjiang New Area, and director of the management committee. In June 2012, Xu Ming stepped down as a member of the Standing Committee of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and continued to serve as the secretary of the Party Working Committee and the director of the Management Committee of Liangjiang New Area.
In March 2013, Xu Ming was appointed deputy director of the State Grain Administration (retaining the status of vice minister).
In July 2021, Xu Ming was investigated after three years of retirement. Source: Beijing Youth Daily