Zhang He, a 70-year-old "tiger" who fell from power, retired for nearly 10 years and was "pulled out" by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

Zhang He (infographic)

Beijing, 30 Apr (CPC News Network) -- At 9:00 a.m. on 29 April, the website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (hereinafter referred to as the website of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission) published the following news: "Zhang He, former member of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial CPC Committee and vice governor of Hebei Province, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is currently under disciplinary review and supervision and investigation by the State Supervision Commission of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission. According to statistics, Zhang He is the third "tiger" to be investigated on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection this month, and the fourth provincial and ministerial-level cadre in Hebei Province since the 19th National Congress.

Public information shows that Zhang He was born in December 1950 and moved to the west of Hebei. Zhang He has worked in Tangshan, Hebei Province for a long time, and has successively served as secretary general, vice mayor, mayor and secretary of the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee of Tangshan Municipal Government. In March 2005, Zhang He became a member of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and became vice governor of Hebei Province the following year. In January 2011, at the age of 61, Zhang He resigned as vice governor of Hebei Province. Since then, he has also served as a special consultant of the provincial government and deputy secretary of the provincial government party group.

In recent years, there have been more than one in Tangshan

Cadres were investigated, including two former deputy mayors -

Chen Xuejun and Yu Shan. The two were

Zhang He worked with Him as Party Secretary of Tangshan (Zhang He served as Secretary of the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee from December 2002 to October 2006

)。

According to public reports, in April 2003, Zhang He, then secretary of the Kaiping District Party Committee of Tangshan City, became the vice mayor of Tangshan City, and then successively served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee, deputy secretary of the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee, and mayor. In June 2015, Chen Xuejun was informed that he was under investigation and arrested in July of the same year.

Yu Shan and Zhang He are "fellow villagers" and are both hebei qianxi people. In April 2003, Yu Shan became the vice mayor of Tangshan City, and in September 2011, he became a member of the Standing Committee of the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee. In June last year, Yu Shan, then director of Hebei Daily, was notified to be subject to censorship and investigation. It was indicted in February this year.

In addition, just one day before Zhang He's fall, the website of the Hebei Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission supervision commission published the news that Li Fandong, former director of the First Discipline Inspection and Supervision Office of the Hebei Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission, was suspected of serious violations of discipline and the law and is currently under disciplinary review and supervision and investigation by the Hebei Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission. Public information shows that Li Fandong has served in the Discipline Inspection Commission of Hebei Province for a long time.

Zhang He has been retired for nearly a decade. In recent years, there have been numerous cases of leading cadres being investigated after retirement. According to public information statistics, since the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, nearly 20 provincial and ministerial-level cadres, including Chen Qianfeng, former vice mayor of Tianjin Municipality, Xing Yun, former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Congress, and Hu Huaibang, former chairman of the China Development Bank, have been investigated and punished after retirement.

Among them, Hu Huaibang was investigated and retired less than a year ago; Wei Chuanzhong, deputy director of the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, was investigated nearly 5 years after retirement; Zhao Shijie, former president of the Yunnan Provincial Higher People's Court, was punished by staying on party probation for one year after retiring for 11 years.

"Retirement is safe landing" is a "law" that some corrupt elements have imagined, and the anti-corruption practice since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China has shattered a series of "pseudo-laws" including "retirement is safety".

At the end of last year, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection published an article entitled "People Walking "Check" Is Not Cool!" What are the typical situations in which cadres violate discipline before and after retirement? He sorted out and took stock of some typical situations of violating discipline before and after the retirement of leading cadres: Some believed in "having the right not to expire and be invalidated," people did not retire, and their hearts were out of control; some people thought that "don't be vain, they used retirement to "play cover", and vigorously engaged in "option corruption"; some relaxed their requirements and went astray because of "boats to docks and cars to stations"... The article points out that the so-called "check" of people is not cool, people will retire, and party discipline and state law will never retire. What's more, although the residual temperature of power is hot, the price of greed is even heavier. As far as leading cadres are concerned, instead of being obsessed with power and being "porters" of fame and profit, so as to go astray and not guarantee the late festival, it is better to walk on thin ice and use power cautiously when they are in power, and cherish the late festival and be refreshing and free after retirement.

As a leading cadre who was investigated for violating discipline at the time of retirement repented: "I didn't expect that the sky was going to be bright, but instead I 'peed on the kang', which is humiliating!"

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