Qi Xieyuan (1879-1946), also spelled Fuwan, was a native of Ninghe (present-day Jinninghe). Graduated from the Artillery Department of the Beiyang Army Academy. He once served as the military affairs supervisor of Jiangsu and the deputy envoy of Su Wangan. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in July 1937, he defected to Japan in Peiping and became a traitor, and in October, together with Wang Kemin and Wang Yitang, he organized the Preparatory Office of the Puppet Government to plan the establishment of a puppet North China Provisional Government. Formed and commanded the pseudo-vigilante army to act as an accomplice to Japan's invasion of China. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in August 1945, he was arrested by the Nationalist government. He was executed in Nanjing in 1946.
Wang Kemin (4 May 1876 – 25 December 1945) was a native of Qiantang County, Hangzhou Province, Zhejiang Province (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province). After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Wang Kemin became chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Puppet Government of the Puppet Republic of China supported by the Japanese Army on December 14 of the same year; in March 1940, after the puppet Provisional Government of the Republic of China and the puppet Republic of China Restoration Government were merged into Wang Jingwei's puppet Nanjing National Government, he became the chairman of the Puppet North China Administrative Affairs Committee. Nominally, Wang Kemin was under the jurisdiction of Wang Jingwei, but in fact it was self-contained. Later, Wang Kemin served as the superintendent of the General Administration of Internal Affairs of the puppet Nanjing National Government and the political commissar of the puppet Central Committee. After Japan's surrender in August 1945, Wang Kemin was arrested by the Nationalist government on charges of treason and committed suicide in prison on December 25, 1945.
Su Xiwen (1889-1945), a native of Xiamen, Fujian Province, graduated from Waseda University in Japan. Su Xiwen served as the director of the Fujian Provincial Finance Bureau, the finance director of the Guangdong Grand Marshal's Office and the director of the Civil Affairs Department. He then left the Chinese Kuomintang and went to teach at Zhizhi University in Shanghai. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, on December 5, 1937, he became the mayor of the Shanghai Municipal Avenue Government under the auspices of Japan. On April 28 of the following year, he was reappointed as the superintendent of the Shanghai Municipal Government Office. On October 16 of the same year, he was appointed Secretary-General of the Shanghai Special Municipal Government. After Fu Xiao'an was stabbed to death in 1940, he briefly acted as mayor. He died in 1945.
Yu Pinqing (1886-1945), a native of Nangong County, Jizhou. On August 27, 1937, the Japanese Kwantung Army captured Zhangjiakou. Yu Pinqing led more than a dozen so-called "business leaders" to make several Japanese "plaster flags" to run outside the city to welcome the Japanese army into the city, and after the Japanese army entered the city, because of Yu Pinqing's welcome and merit, he appointed him as the president of the Zhangjiakou Public Security Maintenance Association. Later, the Japanese army adopted the policy of "using China to control China" and concocted the puppet Chanan Autonomous Government, and appointed him as the chairman of the puppet Chanan Autonomous Government. After Japan's defeat and surrender in August 1945, Yu Pinqing was arrested by the Eighth Route Army that liberated Zhangjiakou. On December 18, the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region Special Court held a public trial meeting and sentenced Yu Pinqing to death. On December 24, Yu Pinqing was executed under the Hanqing Bridge.
Xia Gong (1872–1941) was a Native of Datong, Shanxi. He was a former Qingju man and served as a Zhi County. In 1937, the Japanese army occupied Datong County in Shanxi Province. Xia Gong was recruited by the Japanese to organize the Jinbei Public Security Maintenance Association in Datong. In October, the pro-Japanese local government of Jinbei Autonomous Government was formed, and Xia Gong was appointed as the supreme member. At this time, Xia Gong was nearly seventy years old, and in fact the japanese supreme adviser was in charge of all political affairs. The pseudo-autonomous government's advertised administrative program was "Thank you to the imperial army, eradicate the Red Bandits, promote morality, and build a promised land." Sixteen words, his traitorous face is clearly revealed. Xia Gong fell ill and died in 1941.