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Mao ordered execution of corrupt officials
By Li Huizi |
September 10, 2009, Thursday
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CHINA is hardening its line on corruption ahead of the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China.
Last month, three corruption cases involving former provincial and ministerial officials suspected of taking bribes and abusing official power moved toward final verdicts.
Huang Songyou, former vice president of the Supreme People's Court (SPC), was stripped of his membership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for corruption, said the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on August 21. Huang, 51, was also dismissed from all his official positions. His case has been handed over to prosecutors.
Chen Shaoji, former top political adviser of south China's Guangdong Province, has been expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office for "severe discipline violations," the CCDI said on August 27.
Chen, 64, is suspected of using his position to seek benefits for the people on his side in return for a "large sum" of money. It is further alleged he lived a corrupt life. His case has been referred for prosecution.
Wang Huayuan, a provincial official in east China's Zhejiang Province, has been expelled from the CPC and dismissed from public office over corruption charges, the CCDI said on August 24.
Wang, 61, was found abusing his position to favor the interests for his accomplices. In return, he and his family members received a "large sum" of money and expensive gifts, it is alleged. It is further alleged he went abroad repeatedly to gamble and that he "lived a corrupt life."
Over the past six decades, the CPC and the government have never relaxed the fight against corruption.
Two gunshots were heard in Baoding City in north China's Hebei Province on February 10, 1952, and two corrupt officials died. Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan, the first officials in the history of New China to be found guilty of corruption, had been sentenced to death.
A CPC statement said during wartime, the two officials had remained "faithful and unyielding," even facing torture by enemies in prison, but in peacetime, they "bragged of their success and became pleasure-seekers, thus becoming enemies of the people."
Before the mass public trial, defenders proposed to late Chairman Mao Zedong that an "opportunity of remorse and reform" should be given to the offenders and Mao said: "Only if we execute the two of them, can we prevent 20, 200, 2,000 or 20,000 corrupt officials from committing various crimes."
(The author is a senior writer at Xinhua news agency.)
Last month, three corruption cases involving former provincial and ministerial officials suspected of taking bribes and abusing official power moved toward final verdicts.
Huang Songyou, former vice president of the Supreme People's Court (SPC), was stripped of his membership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for corruption, said the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on August 21. Huang, 51, was also dismissed from all his official positions. His case has been handed over to prosecutors.
Chen Shaoji, former top political adviser of south China's Guangdong Province, has been expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office for "severe discipline violations," the CCDI said on August 27.
Chen, 64, is suspected of using his position to seek benefits for the people on his side in return for a "large sum" of money. It is further alleged he lived a corrupt life. His case has been referred for prosecution.
Wang Huayuan, a provincial official in east China's Zhejiang Province, has been expelled from the CPC and dismissed from public office over corruption charges, the CCDI said on August 24.
Wang, 61, was found abusing his position to favor the interests for his accomplices. In return, he and his family members received a "large sum" of money and expensive gifts, it is alleged. It is further alleged he went abroad repeatedly to gamble and that he "lived a corrupt life."
Over the past six decades, the CPC and the government have never relaxed the fight against corruption.
Two gunshots were heard in Baoding City in north China's Hebei Province on February 10, 1952, and two corrupt officials died. Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan, the first officials in the history of New China to be found guilty of corruption, had been sentenced to death.
A CPC statement said during wartime, the two officials had remained "faithful and unyielding," even facing torture by enemies in prison, but in peacetime, they "bragged of their success and became pleasure-seekers, thus becoming enemies of the people."
Before the mass public trial, defenders proposed to late Chairman Mao Zedong that an "opportunity of remorse and reform" should be given to the offenders and Mao said: "Only if we execute the two of them, can we prevent 20, 200, 2,000 or 20,000 corrupt officials from committing various crimes."
(The author is a senior writer at Xinhua news agency.)
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