The founding of New China could not be separated from the efforts of the revolutionary ancestors, who forged today's peaceful and prosperous era with their flesh and blood, and even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, they were unwilling to stop, sticking to their respective posts to escort the development of the country.
As a small number of socialist countries, New China has no road to learn from for its development, and it completely relies on the leaders to cross the river by feeling the stones and explore a socialist development path that belongs to China. But as we go further down this path, some corruption problems also surface.
Since the reform and opening up, the country has entered a path of rapid economic development, but there are still imperfections in the legal system, and some corrupt high-ranking officials have seized the opportunity to amass money, and their income has seriously exceeded the salary standards of public officials. During Comrade Jiang Zemin's term of office, three high-ranking officials were sentenced to death for this reason, and all of them were extremely arrogant.
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The first high-ranking official was Hu Changqing, born in 1942 in a poor family in Changde, Hunan Province, and was a typical "noble son of a cold family". Because Hu Changqing's family was so poor that he could only tighten his belts every day, and there was no money left at home for him to continue his studies, he dropped out of school early and returned home to farm.
When he reached adulthood, like most poor children, he actively joined the army, so that he could share the financial pressure of his family and seek more ways for himself. In the army, Hu Changqing was diligent and down-to-earth, and won the trust of his superiors through practical actions, so during his career change, he was transferred to Beijing to participate in work, accumulating contacts for his future political career.
In 1995, Hu Changqing was transferred again, and he was sent to the Jiangxi provincial government as an assistant governor, and used his position to secretly engage in corruption and bribery. Some businessmen and officials who want to go to provincial leaders basically need to get Hu Changqing's approval first, and the price is to offer him a high bribe.
It is reported that Hu Changqing's daily income at that time had reached about 5,000 yuan, and he accepted a total of 5.44 million yuan in bribes during his tenure. It was not until 1999 that Hu Changqing's private bribery was exposed, and he cried in court in the hope that it could be carried out, but he still could not prevent his death sentence.
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The second is Wang Huaizhong, born in Bozhou, Anhui Province in 1946, and has served as the secretary of the Fuyang Municipal Party Committee and the vice governor of Anhui Province. According to the people of Fuyang, Wang Huaizhong was extremely greedy, and since he took office in Fuyang, he has been playing power all day long, and has no intention of fulfilling his duties.
Wang Huaizhong was able to get promoted step by step, relying on forging political achievements and sneaking around and beating horses, and after learning that the superior leaders were very happy, he ordered his subordinates to falsify economic income and other data, and then took them to the superior leaders to ask for merit. In addition, he also likes to build image projects, and when the municipal government is short of finances, he will scrape together money by exploiting the people, making the people of Fuyang complain.
As a local official, Wang Huaizhong also got involved in the real estate business, relying on his position to recruit several real estate developers to help him accumulate wealth, and several people colluded with each other to make Fuyang a miasma, but the people at the bottom who needed housing suffered as a result.
Later, Fuyang's population grew rapidly, with more than one million residents, and Wang Huaizhong bragged to his superiors that he could achieve another success, while proclaiming himself "president", as if he regarded himself as Fuyang's "soil emperor". Because Wang Huaizhong's behavior was so bad that it aroused the dissatisfaction of the masses, soon after he became vice governor of Anhui Province, he was examined by the procuratorate, and the following year he was determined to be guilty of corruption and bribery, and he was immediately sentenced to death.
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The third high-ranking official is Cheng Kejie, who grew up in Guangxi and was admitted to a local university on his own when he was young, where he studied railways. Soon after graduation, Cheng Kejie was assigned to the railway bureau as a technician, and he studied railway technology seriously for decades, and became the director of the railway bureau under the promotion of his superiors, which laid a solid foundation for him to enter politics.
Cheng Kejie was also very politically conscious, and soon he was sent to the party school for further study, and eventually shouldered the responsibility of chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region People's Government, but he met a beautiful lover and completely changed his life.
During Cheng Kejie's tenure, he met a woman named Li Ping through the introduction of others, and the two were greedy for color and money, and they became lovers as soon as they hit it off. In return, Cheng Kejie promoted Li Ping to a position that did not belong to her, and the latter also encouraged Cheng Kejie to participate in the smuggling and trafficking of sugar, providing him with power protection.
Under Li Ping's instruction, Cheng Kejie made millions of profits in it, completely abandoned his principles and bottom line as a public official, and joined this crazy crime. In 2000, the collusion between Cheng Kejie and Li Ping was exposed, and Cheng Kejie's absurd life came to an end.
epilogue
The achievements of the struggle of the three high-ranking officials in the first half of their lives were not easy to come by, and it is even more important to be able to become deputy state-level leading cadres, but their will is still not firm enough, and they will shake their hearts when they see a little profit on the fly's head.