Zhang Qi, a former member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee and former secretary of the Haikou Municipal Committee, was sentenced to Life imprisonment late last year, after he was recently convicted of extensive reclamation for political success and promotion, resulting in the permanent destruction of a large area of coral reefs and white butterfly shells. It is rumored that Zhang Qi’s residence was found to have 13.5 tons of Gold hidden in it. In addition, Wang Yong, former Vice Chairman of the CPPCC of Hainan Province, was recently arrested.
The article on the website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China on January 27 said that Zhang Qi, 59, who has been working in Hainan for more than 30 years, abused his public power and used his power for profit, creating land reclamation and illegal development under false pretences, turning land resources into a tool for making money; he was so pleased with his achievements that he sacrificed land, marine resources and the ecological environment in order to make political achievements and seek promotion as soon as possible.
Zhang Qi reclaimed a large area to get political achievements
When Zhang Qi was secretary of Danzhou Municipal Committee, he irregularly promoted the Haihua Island project, which involved a total reclamation area of 783 hectares, and split the reclamation project into 36 projects with an area of less than 27 hectares, which led to the advancement of the prohibited project and the permanent destruction of the ocean and coral reefs.
He also illegally obtained 174,000 square meters of land use rights for enterprises under the guise of new energy vehicles when he was secretary of the Sanya Municipal Committee, and sought personal gains by adjusting up the proportion of land for real estate; between 2010 and 2018, he helped several enterprises illegally obtain nearly 7,000 mu of land in Danzhou, Sanya, and Haikou, including a real estate developer who thus illegally obtained more than 1,000 mu of land, and even occupied The article also pointed out that Zhang Qi and the unscrupulous businessman had been involved in a number of illegal land acquisitions in Danzhou, Sanya and Haikou.
The article also said that Zhang Qi and unscrupulous businessmen with power and interests as a link to form a “common corruption circle”, in the name of investment, to help relatives of leaders to get land and projects. The same level and subordinates are favored to pull, but also connived at his wife and children to intervene in the landscaping project, a huge amount of money.
Zhang Qi and the people involved in the case, in Sanya Phoenix Island, Xiaozhou Island, Haikou Simapo Island and other islands in the commercial development, behind the leaders, officials meddling in the control of the traces. since April 2017, Hainan Province, a total of 515 cases involving corruption in the field of engineering, 536 people, involving the relevant city and county leadership team members accounted for 49%, a hand accounted for 30%; of which the provincial discipline inspection committee investigated and dealt with the case In the cases investigated and punished by the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, engineering corruption is as high as 69%.
Zhang Qi was found 13.5 tons of gold on the eve of his fall
Zhang Qi is a native of Shouxian County, Anhui Province, has been serving in Hainan Province since October 1991, served as deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce, head of the discipline inspection team, Sanya Municipal Committee Standing Committee, deputy mayor, deputy secretary, deputy mayor, director of the Hainan Provincial Tourism Bureau, deputy secretary of the Danzhou Municipal Committee, acting mayor, mayor, secretary of the municipal party committee, since October 2014 as a member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Committee, secretary of the Sanya Municipal Committee, in November 2016 From November 2016 until his fall, he was a member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Haikou Municipal Party Committee.
Zhang Qi fell on September 6, 2019, becoming the “first tiger” of Hainan after the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. The day before Zhang Qi was investigated, a staggering amount of cash and 13.5 tons of gold bricks and bars were seized from his residence, according to a Twitter report.
On March 4, 2020, Zhang Qi was investigated for bribery and was double-opened, transferred for prosecution on March 18, and arrested earlier.
Wang Yong, former vice chairman of the CPPCC of Hainan Province, was arrested
Wang Yong, former vice chairman of the CPPCC of Hainan Province, was arrested when Zhang Qi’s extensive reclamation for political achievements came to light.
Pictured is Wang Yong, a former member of the party group and vice chairman of the CPPCC of Hainan Province.
On January 28, the Communist Party’s Supreme Procuratorate announced that the investigation of the alleged bribery case of Wang Yong, a former member of the party group and vice chairman of the CPPCC of Hainan Province, was completed, transferred for examination and prosecution, and arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes.
Wang Yong, 63, was double-opened on Jan. 11 this year, when the official notification accused him of discounting and changing the deployment of major decisions, irregularly promoting reclamation projects and causing serious consequences; confronting censorship, arranging for others to pretend and perform at the Party’s democratic life meeting; visiting private clubs and accepting arrangements for activities; accepting gifts and gratuities in violation of the law and receiving large amounts of property; having improper Family style and engaging in profit-making activities in violation of the law; engaging in trading in power and sex; and interfering in judicial activities; constituting a serious violation of duty and suspected of accepting bribes.
Wang Yong was deputy director of the Social Security Bureau of Hainan Province, director of the Department of Transportation of Hainan Province, deputy secretary, acting mayor and mayor of Sanya City, minister of the United Front Work Department of Hainan Provincial Committee, and vice chairman of the Hainan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. 2020 July 13, Wang Yong was investigated; he was removed from his post on August 31.
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