Beijing’s former vice mayor Chen Gang was sentenced to 15 years for taking nearly 130 million in bribes and was once considered a “rising star in politics.”

On February 5, the Nanjing Intermediate People’s Court of Jiangsu Province publicly announced the verdict of Chen Gang, former member of the party group and secretary of the secretary office of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), who was sentenced to 15 years in the first instance and fined RMB 5 million for taking bribes; Chen Gang’s bribe-taking properties and their fruits were recovered according to law and surrendered to the state treasury.

It is reported that from 2003 to 2018, Chen Gang used the convenience of his position as director of the Beijing Municipal Planning Commission, vice mayor of the Beijing Municipal Government, and member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee, as well as the convenience conditions formed by his authority and position as deputy director of the South-North Water Diversion Project Construction Committee Office of the State Council, secretary of the secretary office and member of the Standing Committee of the China Association of Science and Technology, to provide relevant enterprises with the opportunity to change the nature of land for construction projects, planning He provided assistance to relevant enterprises in matters such as land nature change, planning index adjustment, project approval and acceptance, and illegally received a total of 128 million yuan in property from others.

Chen Gang, born in 1966, had a smooth career, serving as the director of the Beijing Municipal Planning Commission in 2002, which was considered a “fat job”, and in 2006, at the age of 40, Chen Gang became the vice mayor of Beijing, a bright new star in the political arena of Beijing and China at that Time.