The "tiger" who had "disappeared" for more than two years was arrested and the secretary-general was taken down after his transfer
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Six months after being investigated, "Tiger" Jiang Zhigang was decided to arrest.
On September 18, the Supreme People's Procuratorate released the news:
The case of Jiang Zhigang, former deputy secretary of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Party Committee and former secretary of the Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee, was investigated by the State Supervision Commission and transferred to the procuratorate for examination and prosecution.
A few days ago, the Supreme People's Procuratorate made a decision to arrest Jiang Zhigang on suspicion of accepting bribes in accordance with the law.
There was also an arrested "tiger" this month. On September 4, Cui Maohu, former deputy head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee and former director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs, was arrested by decision.
"disappeared" two years later was investigated
Jiang Zhigang, born in August 1960, 63 years old this year, from Donghai, Jiangsu, graduated from Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, majored in management engineering, and worked in the Aviation System and Central Organization Department.
Jiang Zhigang was decided to arrest
In 2003, Jiang Zhigang was transferred to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, and in 2011, he became the deputy director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council.
In May 2013, Jiang Zhigang went to Beijing to take up his post, and in April 2017, he went to Ningxia to serve as the deputy secretary of the party committee and the president of the party school of the district party committee, and in June of the same year, he became the secretary of the new Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee.
On January 26, 2021, the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region announced that "recently, Jiang Zhigang, a deputy to the 12th People's Congress of the Autonomous Region elected by Yinchuan City, was transferred out of our region. According to the relevant provisions of the Representation Law, Jiang Zhigang's representative qualifications were terminated on his own. ”
Since then, Jiang Zhigang has not appeared in public reports.
On March 17 this year, the official website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection released the news of Jiang Zhigang's investigation, which was more than two years after he "disappeared" and reappeared in the public eye.
The former secretary general of the municipal party committee was taken down after his transfer
Jiang Zhigang served as the secretary of the Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee from June 2017 to January 2021.
Yinchuan is the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, a national historical and cultural city, and a national civilized city.
During Jiang Zhigang's tenure, Yinchuan's title of National Civilized City was once revoked.
In March 2019, the results of the 2018 National Civilized City Assessment were announced. Yinchuan City scored 69.69, and the assessment score did not reach 70 points, and Yinchuan City's qualification as a national civilized city was suspended for one year.
In March of that year, Yinchuan City held a meeting of leading cadres to inform the 2018 Central Civilization Commission of the results of the assessment of "stopping Yinchuan City's national civilized city qualification for one year". At that time, Jiang Zhigang expressed his "sincere apologies" to the people of the city.
In addition, during Jiang Zhigang's tenure, Yinchuan City was repeatedly named by the Central No. 2 Environmental Protection Supervision Group.
On June 1, 2018, the Central No. 2 Environmental Protection Supervision Team "looked back" and entered Ningxia. After entering the mobilization meeting, the second inspection group made public the whistleblower phone number. Within hours, the inspection team received nearly 30 whistleblowing calls. Among them, 13 reflect the "odor pollution problem of Terry Pharmaceutical".
In October 2018, the Central No. 2 Environmental Protection Supervision Group reported that the peculiar smell problem of pharmaceutical enterprises in Yongning County, Yinchuan City, has plagued the surrounding people for more than ten years, and the Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have an ambiguous attitude on "governance and moving", and can delay the problem of peculiar smell disturbance of enterprises, forming a passive situation of treatment, production, pollution and payment of fines for many years.
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During the "review" period, the number of complaints and reports from the public against three pharmaceutical companies in Yongning County reached 270, of which Tairui Pharmaceutical's surface rectification, the problems pointed out by inspectors in 2016 still existed, and it was not until June 22, 2018 that Tairui Pharmaceutical publicly and clearly implemented the relocation.
In addition, the circular also mentioned that there is a perfunctory rectification situation in Yinchuan City.
"Yinchuan City was supposed to complete the 'East Hot West Delivery' project by the end of 2017, but the municipal party committee and municipal government did not advance effectively, and construction did not start until October 2017."
In addition, one year after Jiang Zhigang was transferred, in April 2022, Wang Yong, who had just assumed the post of chairman of the new Yinchuan CPPCC, was taken down.
Wang Yong was investigated in April 2022
In June 2017, Jiang Zhigang became the secretary of the Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee, and in December of that year, Wang Yong, who worked for the Standing Committee of the Yinchuan Municipal People's Congress, was nominated as the vice mayor of Yinchuan, and later became the vice mayor of Yinchuan.
Wang Yong served as vice mayor of Yinchuan for less than a year, and in November 2018, he became a member of the Standing Committee of the Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee and concurrently served as the secretary general of the Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee.
In January 2021, Jiang Zhigang was transferred, and in September of that year, Wang Yong became the secretary of the party group and chairman candidate of the Yinchuan CPPCC, and in December 2021, he served as the secretary and chairman of the party group of the Yinchuan CPPCC, and was investigated in April 2022.
The "tallest tower in the northwest"
Yinchuan was also notified by the State Council in 2021.
In October 2021, the General Office of the State Council issued the Circular on the Illegal Construction of Buildings and Buildings in Some Areas with High Debt.
The circular mentioned that the audit found that eight projects in four areas with high local government debt risk, including Qinghai, Ningxia, Guizhou and Yunnan, had problems of building buildings and buildings in violation of regulations to varying degrees.
Ningxia has been named "Ningxia Minning Conference Center", "Ningxia Minning Town Hotel Management and Service Vocational Skills Training Center" and "Ningxia Silk Road Pearl Tower".
Among them, the Ningxia Silk Road Pearl Tower is known as the "tallest tower in the northwest" and is planned and built by Yinchuan City.
Jiang Zhigang has investigated the project several times. The last time he appeared in public reports as the secretary of the Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee was related to the Silk Road Pearl Tower.
On December 10, 2020, Jiang Zhigang investigated the construction of key projects of the Silk Road Pearl Tower and Yinchuan Workers' Cultural Center (Workers' Cultural Palace).
According to upstream news reports, speaking of Jiang Zhigang, the local population of Yinchuan is inseparable from the rotten "tallest tower in the northwest" - the Silk Road Pearl Tower.
The above-mentioned media mentioned that after Jiang Zhigang took office, a number of new projects in Yinchuan began to be put into operation, among which the "Silk Road Pearl Tower" attracted the most attention. In the external publicity, the "Silk Road Pearl Tower" is the third tallest tower in China and the first in the northwest, and was once a landmark building under construction in Yinchuan, Ningxia.
Jiang Zhigang has repeatedly investigated the "First Tallest Tower in Northwest China" project
From the establishment of the project to the suspension of construction, in less than four years, the life and death of the "Silk Road Pearl Tower" and Jiang Zhigang's political trajectory in Ningxia have a high degree of overlap.
On August 30, 2023, Jiang Zhigang was double-opened.
The circular mentioned that Jiang Zhigang ignored the spirit of the eight central regulations, wantonly accepted and organized banquets and tourism activities that might affect the fair performance of official duties, and illegally used financial funds to build buildings and restaurants.
The circular also mentioned that he interfered in the personnel arrangements of the original management unit in violation of the law and sought benefits for others in the selection and appointment of cadres; Using his authority to buy a house at a low price for himself and his relatives and friends, and illegally helping relatives to buy shares in private enterprises.
In addition, he also had a weak sense of discipline and law, was greedy, engaged in power and money transactions, used the convenience of his position to seek benefits for others in business operations and job adjustments, and illegally accepted huge amounts of money.
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Jiang Zhigang, who has "disappeared" in public reports for two years, finally has new news.
Today (17th), the website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection released news that Jiang Zhigang, former deputy secretary of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Party Committee and former secretary of the Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervision and investigation by the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Jiang Zhigang is the ninth central management cadre to fall off the horse this year. Jiang Zhigang, who has been in Ningxia for less than 4 years, has not appeared in public media reports since he left, and when it comes to him, the local population of Yinchuan cannot do without the rotten "tallest tower in the northwest", the Silk Road Pearl Tower.
Jiang Zhigang (middle) has inspected the Silk Road Pearl Tower project many times. Image source/Silk Road Pearl Tower Project official website
Yinchuan Municipal Party Secretary Jiang Zhigang and the "Tallest Tower in Northwest China"
According to the public resume, Jiang Zhigang was born in August 1960, a native of Donghai, Jiangsu, with a bachelor's degree in high-altitude equipment from Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a master's degree in management engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University.
In his early years, Jiang Zhigang worked in the aviation system for many years, successively serving as a director and deputy general manager of the board of directors of Chengdu Aircraft Industry (Group) Company, and the director of the human resources department of Aviation Industry First Group Corporation of China.
In 2000, Jiang Zhigang was seconded to the Office of Enterprise Cadres of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, and a year later stayed in the Office of Enterprise Cadres of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee as a researcher at the deputy bureau level, and later became the deputy director of the Fifth Bureau of Cadres of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee. In 2003, Jiang Zhigang was transferred to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and successively served as Deputy Director of the First Bureau of Enterprise Leadership Management and Director of the Second Bureau of Management. In 2011, Jiang Zhigang served as Deputy Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council.
In May 2013, Jiang Zhigang went to Beijing to serve as a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and the head of the Organization Department. In April 2017, Jiang Zhigang parachuted into Ningxia to serve as deputy secretary of the party committee and president of the party school of the district party committee, and became the new secretary of the Yinchuan municipal party committee in June of the same year.
With the arrival of Jiang Zhigang, a number of new projects in Yinchuan began to be put into operation, among which the "Silk Road Pearl Tower" attracted the most attention. In the external publicity, the "Silk Road Pearl Tower" is the third tallest tower in China and the first in the northwest, and was once a landmark building under construction in Yinchuan, Ningxia. An investigation by upstream news reporters found that in less than four years, from the establishment of the project to the suspension of work, the life and death of the "Silk Road Pearl Tower" and Jiang Zhigang's political trajectory in Ningxia overlapped highly.
Silk Road Pearl Tower has been written into the Government Work Report for 3 consecutive years
The Silk Road Pearl Tower project first appeared on the government website on December 21, 2017, at the second meeting of the fourth people's congress of Jinfeng District in Yinchuan City, the "Government Work Report" of Jinfeng District mentioned for the first time that it is necessary to "accelerate the implementation of special tourism projects such as the Silk Road Pearl Tower". The project has also become one of the tasks of the Jinfeng District Government in 2018. It is worth noting that at this time, Jiang Zhigang was only 6 months as the secretary of the Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee.
A dozen days later, at the second meeting of the 15th Yinchuan People's Congress on January 11, 2018, "Promoting the Silk Road Pearl Tower" was written into the Yinchuan Government Work Report for the first time. The Silk Road Pearl Tower was included in the 2018 work arrangement, "Formulate opinions on the implementation of global tourism, and promote projects such as the Silk Road Pearl Tower." In the same year, the Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee Office, the Municipal Government Office, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission and other departments issued documents, and repeatedly mentioned "accelerating" and "vigorously promoting" the construction of new scenic spots such as the Silk Road Pearl Tower.
According to the preliminary planning, the Silk Road Pearl Tower will become the third tallest tower in China. Image source: Yinchuan Municipal Government website
In order to accelerate the construction of the Silk Road Pearl Tower Project and ensure that it was completed and put into use as scheduled, on November 27, 2018, the Yinchuan Municipal Government Office released information that after the study and decision of the Yinchuan Municipal Government, the "Silk Road Pearl Tower Project Promotion Leading Group" was established.
The upstream news reporter noted that the leading group has a large lineup: two vice mayors serve as the leaders of the group, the deputy secretary-general of the government, the heads of housing and construction and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission serve as deputy team leaders, and the main heads of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Finance Bureau, the Environmental Protection Bureau, the Land Bureau, the Audit Bureau, the Safety Supervision Bureau, the Planning Bureau and other departments serve as members of the group. The group is divided into a project investment and financing group and a project promotion group, and the two vice mayors each lead a group responsible for project construction and project funding.
On January 6, 2019, China Railway City Investment Group and Yinchuan Municipal Government signed the Framework Agreement on Deepening Cooperation and the Cooperation and Investment Agreement on the Yinchuan Silk Road Pearl Tower Project, and Jiang Zhigang, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, attended the meeting.
In 2019 and 2020, the Silk Road Pearl Tower was written into the Yinchuan Government Work Report for two consecutive years, and the project was listed as one of the annual key tasks of the Yinchuan Municipal Government.
In 2019 and 2020, the Silk Road Pearl Tower project was assigned to be led by special personnel and specific departments to take the lead in providing quarterly feedback on the progress of the project. The Yinchuan Approval Service Administration has disclosed that in 2019, the bureau provided personalized agency assistance services for 30 key projects such as the Silk Road Pearl Tower. In 2019, many local departments held several special meetings to comprehensively listen to the relevant situation of projects such as the Silk Road Pearl Tower.
On August 26, 2019, the planning plan of the Silk Road Pearl Tower project was announced to the public. Silk Road Pearl Tower is located at the west end of Tuanjie Road, Yuewan Central Business District, Yinchuan City, west of Yuehai, covering an area of 61,880.31 square meters, with a construction area of 175,000 square meters and a total investment of 2.333 billion yuan. According to the preliminary planning, the Silk Road Pearl Tower includes four parts: high, medium, low and underground. The high area is for radio and television transmission, revolving cafeteria, Chinese food, Western food, sightseeing and high-altitude entertainment projects; The Central District and relevant departments jointly built to set up urban exhibition halls, red education bases, comprehensive displays of cultural tourism projects, etc.; The low-level podium commercial integrates comprehensive formats such as eating, drinking, playing, traveling, shopping, and shopping; The underground floor is divided into 2 floors, which are supermarket, catering, staff canteen, tower security check, parking lot, machine room, kitchen, etc.
According to the preliminary planning, the total height of the Silk Road Pearl Tower is 448.2 meters, and the building below 370 meters is used. As the tallest landmark building in Yinchuan, after the completion of the Silk Road Pearl Tower, it will become the "third tallest" domestic tourism TV tower after Guangzhou's "Xiaomanwai" (tower height of 600 meters) and Shanghai's "Oriental Pearl" (tower height of 467.9 meters).
When the upstream news reporter investigated, it was found that there was a local view that the top two towers in China were located in Guangzhou and Shanghai, whether from the perspective of total GDP or permanent population, Yinchuan had a significant gap, and whether it could recover investment costs and whether it was extravagant waste was one of the points of debate.
According to reports, on November 4, 2019, after 62 hours of continuous hard work by 900 builders, the Silk Road Pearl Tower project successfully completed the concrete pouring of the large floor of the tower, officially entering the main construction stage. On May 17, 2020, the Silk Road Pearl Tower officially entered the above-ground construction stage.
Jiang Zhigang also appeared at the construction site of the Silk Road Pearl Tower many times to carry out research. On December 10, 2020, Jiang Zhigang last appeared in public media reports as the secretary of the Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee, and that time he was also investigating the construction of key projects such as the Silk Road Pearl Tower.
The 62-story core body of the Silk Road Pearl Tower has only completed 2 floors of concrete pouring. Image source: Ningxia Public Resources (State-owned Property Rights) Trading Platform
The construction of the tower with financial funds was named and notified by the State Council
On January 26, 2021, the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region issued an announcement that Jiang Zhigang, a deputy to the 12th People's Congress of the Autonomous Region recently elected by Yinchuan City, was transferred from our region. According to the relevant provisions of the Representation Law, Jiang Zhigang's representative qualifications were terminated on his own.
Upstream news reporters noticed that from 2021, the progress of the Silk Road Pearl Tower and its project began to gradually decrease or recede from local media, government websites and government work reports.
On June 13, 2021, the Silk Road Pearl Tower project announced the suspension of construction. On September 2 of that year, the Silk Road Pearl Tower project began to be publicly listed on the Ningxia Public Resources (State-owned Property Rights) trading platform, with a transfer reserve price of 858 million yuan, and on October 13, the project was successfully won by a local real estate enterprise in Ningxia with a listing price of 858 million yuan.
In October 2021, the General Office of the State Council issued the Circular on the Illegal Construction of Buildings and Buildings in Some Heavily Debted Areas, which publicly notified Qinghai, Ningxia, Guizhou, Yunnan and other regions of illegal construction of buildings and halls, and disclosed that eight projects, including the Ningxia Silk Road Pearl Tower, had problems of illegal construction of buildings and buildings to varying degrees.
According to the circular, the Ningxia Silk Road Pearl Tower Project is a comprehensive building planned and built by Yinchuan City that integrates radio and television transmission, sightseeing and tourism, and business exhibitions. In December 2018, Yinchuan City decided to jointly fund the construction by China Railway City Development and Investment Group Co., Ltd. and Yinchuan Tonglian Capital Investment and Operation Co., Ltd., a state-owned enterprise of the city. At present, part of the tower and north podium has been completed. The actual funds in place for the project are 520 million yuan, of which 300 million yuan invested by Yinchuan Tonglian Capital Investment and Operation Co., Ltd. is all financial funds.
The upstream news reporter noted that Yinchuan Tonglian Capital Investment and Operation Co., Ltd. is a local state-owned enterprise in Ningxia. On May 21, 2020, Jiang Zhigang led a group of officials to China Railway City to invest in the Silk Road Pearl Tower project inspection and guidance work, saying that after the Silk Road Pearl Tower project completed the pouring of the tower plus or minus zero ahead of schedule, the follow-up construction task is still arduous, and it is necessary to arrange the construction period, strengthen overall coordination, form a big climax, and complete the construction of the Silk Road Pearl Tower as soon as possible. It is necessary to enrich and improve the publicity work of the Silk Road Pearl Tower project to lay a foundation for later operation.
Many of Jiang Zhigang's subordinates have been investigated and dealt with
It is worth noting that several of Jiang Zhigang's subordinates were investigated or sentenced last year.
On February 9, Xu Qing, the former vice mayor of Yinchuan, was expelled from the party and public office, and in March, Xu Qing was prosecuted by the procuratorate on suspicion of accepting bribes.
On March 22, Han Jianglong, deputy director of the Civil Affairs Department of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, who had previously served as vice mayor of Yinchuan, was investigated; On December 30, Han Jianglong was sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison for accepting bribes. The court found that from 2010 to 2022, the defendant Han Jianglong asked for and accepted other people's property equivalent to a total of more than 26.65 million yuan on 57 occasions.
On April 13, 2022, Wang Yong, chairman of the Yinchuan CPPCC, was investigated on suspicion of serious violations of discipline and law. It is worth noting that Wang Yong, born in November 1966, has served as deputy secretary of the party group and deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Yinchuan Municipal People's Congress since January 2017. Since January 2018, Wang Yong has served as the vice mayor of Yinchuan, and the following month he has been a member of the party group of the municipal government. In November 2018, Wang Yong became a member of the Standing Committee of the Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee and served as the secretary general and the secretary of the working committee of the municipal organs. On December 28, 2021, he was elected as the chairman of the Yinchuan CPPCC. After four months as chairman of the Yinchuan CPPCC, 56-year-old Wang Yong stepped down.
Jiang Zhigang has "disappeared" from public reports for more than two years since he left as party secretary of Yinchuan in January 2021, until the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission published the news that he was suspected of serious violations of discipline and law.