Written by | Gao Yuyang Edited | Zou Chunxia
On the day the Third Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee was finalized, State Councilor Yang Jing was dismissed.
At 4 p.m. on February 24, the Politburo meeting decided to convene the Third Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee, "also studied other matters." ”
About 2 hours later, Xinhua News Agency sent another message: "A few days ago, with the approval of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection filed a case for examination Yang Jing, secretary of the Secretariat of the 18th CPC Central Committee, state councilor, and secretary general of the State Council, for serious violations of discipline. ”
After the conclusion of the Nineteenth National Congress, there were rumors about Yang Jing. This time, the "boots" landed, and because Yang Jing was able to admit and repent of his mistakes during the review, he was given a one-year probation in the party, administrative dismissal, demoted to the rank of minister, and handled according to procedures.
Born in December 1953, Yang Jing was the first deputy state-level cadre to be demoted after the 19th Party Congress. Yang Jing is the first deputy national to be demoted, and after being demoted, he will retire at the end of this year, at the age of 65.
Since the 18th Party Congress, cadres at the vice-state level and above who have fallen from power include Zhou Yongkang, Xu Caihou, Guo Boxiong, Sun Zhengcai, Ling Jihua, and Su Rong.
<h1>Rumors after the 19th Party Congress</h1>
The rumor about Yang Jing after the 19th Party Congress was at the end of November 2017.
Before the rumors, Yang Jing had disappeared from public reports for nearly a month. On November 7, 2017, the State Council held a symposium of economic situation experts and entrepreneurs. The report shows that Yang Jing participated in the forum. Since then, there have been rumors and no public reports.
However, with the reappearance on December 15, 2017, rumors about Yang Jing faded. However, before being publicly demoted, Yang Jing's last appearance was on February 5, 2018.
According to a Xinhua News Agency, after investigation, Comrade Yang Jing has seriously violated political discipline, political rules, and honest discipline, and has had improper contacts with illegal business owners and lawless social personnel for a long time, providing convenient conditions for the other party to use his position to influence illegal acts and seek huge private interests, and his relatives accept the other party's property. During the review, Comrade Yang Jing was able to admit and repent of his mistakes.
In accordance with the "Regulations on Disciplinary Punishment of the Communist Party of China" and other relevant provisions, after the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission studied and reported to the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee for deliberation, it was decided to give Comrade Yang Jing a one-year probationary stay in the party and administrative dismissal, demote him to the level of a full minister, and handle it in accordance with procedures.
<h1>The vice-state level is no longer the central committee</h1>
Yang Jing is a native of Zungar Banner, Inner Mongolia. This Mongolian cadre went from the grassroots level to the vice-state level.
He was first worked as a worker in the Jungar Banner Agricultural Machinery Factory in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. After entering the career path, in 1998, Yang Jing entered the Standing Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee as the secretary of the Hohhot Municipal Party Committee, ranked among the vice-provincial and ministerial-level officials, and 5 years later became the acting chairman of the autonomous regional government, and then "went to the generation to be regularized", and in 2004, he became the chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Government, beginning his career as a ministerial-level official.
After five years in charge of Inner Mongolia, in 2008, he was transferred to Beijing and served as deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee and director of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission. In 2012, he was appointed Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, Director of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, and Secretary of the Party Group. In 2013, he stepped down from his post on the National Affairs Council.
In addition, Yang Jing was also an alternate member of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, a member of the 17th and 18th Central Committees, but yang Jing's name did not appear in the list of central committee members released after the conclusion of the 19th National Congress.
<h1>He once created the "Inner Mongolia Phenomenon"</h1>
When the party in charge is the most able to see the work style and work style of officials. For Yang Jing, from 2003 to 2008, his five years in charge of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region were undoubtedly the five most "standing in front of the stage" in his life.
Yang Jing became acting chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in 2003. That year, Inner Mongolia's GDP increased by 16.3% over the previous year, and its economic growth rate ranked first in the country. Yang Jing was very pleased with this achievement, he said: "It took 48 years for Inner Mongolia's finance to break through 10 billion yuan, 4 years to break through 20 billion yuan, and only 2 years to break through 25 billion yuan. ”
It can be said that since 2003, Inner Mongolia's GDP has risen sharply, and at the same time, Inner Mongolia has created a GDP growth myth that has maintained the first gdp growth rate in the country for consecutive years since 2003, such as GDP, industrial value above designated size, and fixed asset investment, making Inner Mongolia a dark horse and star in China's economic circles. This was even once called the "Inner Mongolia phenomenon".
At that time, the state was implementing the strategy of large-scale development of the western region, most of the new economic growth points in Inner Mongolia were concentrated in the west, and the three cities of Bao, Hu and Hubei constituted the economic highland of inner Mongolia's "Yellow River Delta" and became the fastest growing city in the country's economic development.
The large-scale development of the western region has boosted the economy of western Inner Mongolia, but the imbalance between the economic development of the eastern and western regions has also become more prominent. Yang Jing is also aware of this, in 2004, the strategy of revitalizing the northeast was proposed, which is a preferential policy for the old industrial bases of the three northeastern provinces.
In the work deployment in 2004, Yang Jing repeatedly stressed that the eastern league cities should take advantage of the opportunity of the state to revitalize the old industrial base in the northeast, increase policy inclination, and accelerate economic development. Radiation is mainly to make the eastern league cities into the northeast industrial base of raw materials and energy development base; in addition, it is necessary to introduce the production workshop and branch factory of the northeast industrial base into Inner Mongolia, so that Inner Mongolia will become their processing workshop.
Moreover, in 2003, Yang Jing personally led the team to Europe under the slogan of building a Mongolian cultural region, where they went to attract investment and investment, which invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Inner Mongolia and brought strong financial support to the development of Inner Mongolia's industry, agriculture and service industry.
<h1>He was criticized by Wen Jiabao by name</h1>
Many people who have worked around Yang Jing talk about him, using words such as "capable" and "acute", and there are things that must be dealt with immediately and delays are not allowed. Yang Jing is "fast", but this kind of fastness also makes him fall over.
On August 16, 2006, Premier Wen Jiabao presided over an executive meeting of the State Council, which seriously dealt with the illegal construction of the Xinfeng power plant project in Inner Mongolia, required Yang Jing, chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Government, and two vice chairmen to make a written inspection, and to notify and criticize the autonomous regional government.
For the first time at the time, an official from the Inner Mongolia Development and Reform Commission said that the state's handling of the Xinfeng incident had long since been written, and the written inspections of the three chairmen of the autonomous region had long been written, but they suddenly went to the executive meeting of the State Council and reported the criticism nationwide, which exceeded everyone's expectations.
The rapid development of Inner Mongolia has brought side effects such as environmental pollution, so that the development of Inner Mongolia has fallen into the "coal power-GDP cycle" that is difficult to extricate itself. Specifically, it is "more coal to generate electricity, more electricity to develop high-energy-consuming industries, more energy-consuming industries to build more power plants, and more power plants to build coal mines, large coal mines can not be satisfied, small coal mines will emerge in an endless stream." In the words of the time, "the three years since 2003 have developed particularly rapidly, and one of the four light bulbs in Beijing has been lit by coal power in Inner Mongolia."
The Xinfeng power plant incident was first an accident in July 2005 that killed six people and injured eight others. After the accident, the central investigation team was stationed at the accident site, and after that, more details were found that this huge project with a construction scale of two 300,000 kilowatt coal-fired units and a total investment of 2.888 billion yuan was actually a project in violation of the law, that is, the construction of xinfeng power plant has not been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission.
Later, it was found that during the construction process of the Xinfeng Power Plant project, the relevant departments and enterprises of the local government had serious problems such as exceeding their authority to approve, approve land acquisition in violation of regulations, false declarations, surprise construction, and violations of bidding procedures, especially after the relevant state departments determined that they violated the rules, the construction and construction still did not stop.
The situation similar to the Xinfeng power plant in Inner Mongolia is not the only case. After the incident, the 8 million kilowatts of new power project in Inner Mongolia was stopped, involving about 80 billion yuan of investment.
It is worth mentioning that after being informed at the National Standing Committee, the People's Daily pointed out in three consecutive articles: All departments should not selectively implement the policies of the central government, and should establish the concept of "one game of chess for the whole country", and leading cadres at all levels should "focus on the long term" and "tell the truth", and must have the determination to "not blindly pursue the GDP growth rate".
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