Liu Guoqiang, former vice chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), was doubly fired today (Jan. 11). The Chinese Communist Party official said that Liu Guoqiang spent huge sums of money to run for office and buy officials.
The Chinese Communist Party’s State Commission for Discipline Inspection website released news on the 11th that Liu Guoqiang, former deputy secretary and vice chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party for serious violations of discipline and law.
He was accused of being “disloyal and dishonest to the Party, engaging in double-crossing and being a two-faced person”, “blindly listening to political crooks”, “spending huge sums of money to buy officials and being cheated”, and “having no concept of discipline and law, acting arbitrarily in his area of responsibility and engaging in power and money deals”.
According to the report, Liu Guoqiang was expelled from the Communist Party of China; canceled his entitlements, the seizure of his disciplinary and illegal income; his suspected crimes were transferred to the procuratorial authorities for examination and prosecution, and the property involved was also transferred.
Liu Guoqiang has fallen under investigation as early as July this year.
Liu Guoqiang, 67, is a native of Benxi, Liaoning. He graduated from Dalian Railway Institute (now Dalian Jiaotong University) with a master’s degree in industrial electrical automation from the Department of Electrical Engineering and a postgraduate degree in industrial automation from the Department of Self-Control of Northeastern University. He has served as technician, deputy director of workshop, section chief, assistant plant manager, deputy plant manager, plant manager, deputy general manager and general manager of Benxi Iron and Steel Company, and deputy secretary, acting mayor and mayor of Benxi Municipal Committee.
In May 2001, Liu Guoqiang became the vice governor of Liaoning Province. In January 2013, he became the vice chairman of the 11th Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) of Liaoning Province, and stepped down as the vice chairman of the CPPCC of Liaoning Province in January 2017.
Liu Guoqiang was disciplined during his tenure as vice governor of Liaoning, where a major gas explosion occurred in February 2005 at the Sunjiawan coal mine of the Liaoning Fuxin Mining Group. Officials said the incident killed 214 people and injured 30 others. At the time, Liu Guoqiang was suspended from his duties and later received a major administrative demerit.
It is reported that Liu Guoqiang’s wife, Chen Zhuping, who was the secretary and deputy manager of Liao Ben Company, a Bensteel international trading company, died in a plane crash.
On June 1, 2009, after the disappearance of Air France Flight AF447 over the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people on board, it was confirmed that there were nine Chinese people on board, six of whom were employees of Liaoning Benxi Iron and Steel Group Company, and Chen Jiuping was among them.
It was reported that Liu Guoqiang had served as vice governor of Liaoning province for 13 years, and had worked with the fallen Bo Xilai, Wang Min and other senior Liaoning officials for many years, and was said to be Bo Xilai’s partner.
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