Former Yunnan Provincial Party Secretary of the Communist Party of China Qin Guangrong was sentenced by the Chengdu Intermediate Court in Sichuan Province on Jan. 19 to seven years in prison for taking a bribe of 23.89 million yuan, with the light sentence due to the circumstances of his surrender.
The briefing showed that Qin Guangrong used the convenience of serving as a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Yunnan Provincial Committee and vice governor of Yunnan Province, and later as governor and secretary of the provincial party committee, to facilitate job promotions, equity transfers and engineering contracts, and accepted huge bribes between 2003 and 2014.
However, on April 6, 2019, Qin Guangrong voluntarily surrendered to the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission. The State Supervision Commission proposed a lenient punishment for Qin Guangrong, which was approved by the prosecutors. Qin Guangrong said he would not appeal the verdict.
Details of Qin Guangrong’s corruption were revealed in the first episode of “State Supervision,” an anti-corruption television series broadcast by Chinese official media CCTV last January. Qin Guangrong had built a 1,600-square-meter mansion in his hometown of Hunan, known as the “Qin Family Compound.
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