Cheng Kejie, then vice chairman of the National People’s Congress (NPC), who was sentenced to immediate execution because of Jiang Zemin’s direct intervention, was only guilty of taking 41 million yuan in bribes alone or jointly with his mistress. In addition to “using his power to seek huge improper benefits for his mistress,” Chen Tonghai, the other CCP giant who followed him, took a bribe of 195 million yuan alone, almost five times as much as Cheng Kejie’s total bribe alone and jointly with his mistress, and was caught in fear of being caught. He was arrested and attempted to flee, but was able to stay under the knife and was only given a suspended death sentence.
The author of a commentary published by a mainland Chinese financial media outlet noted in particular that the mistresses of Cheng Kejie and Chen Tonghai were both flirtatious, beautiful women of mixed race: Cheng Kejie’s mistress, Li Ping, was of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent; Chen Tonghai’s mistress, Li Wei, was of mixed French and Vietnamese descent.
An article published by China News, one of the main central media of the Chinese Communist regime, titled “The archives declassified: the inside story of Cheng Kejie’s retracted confession and execution by lethal injection”, described how Cheng Kejie’s death sentence was carried out, as the highest Chinese official to be brought to justice after 1949, as a matter of concern to the outside world. On July 31, 2000, the Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court handed down a public verdict of first instance against Cheng Kejie, sentencing him to death for accepting bribes ……. (45 days later) On September 14, in Qincheng Prison, Cheng Kejie was examined.
At 9:47, Cheng Kejie was taken to the door of the execution chamber. He was still dressed in a suit and his hair was properly combed. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. …
This article, “File Declassified: The Inside Story of Cheng Kejie’s Retracted Confession and Execution by Lethal Injection,” was published several years after Cheng Kejie’s death. I don’t know if it was intentional or just a coincidence that Chen Tonghai, who was unanimously believed to be sentenced to death, was waiting for the verdict in Qincheng prison at that Time.
The last sentence of the article reads, “On the very day (of Cheng Kejie’s execution), Xinhua News Agency broadcasted the news that Cheng Kejie had been executed, but did not reveal where or in what way.”
After reading this last sentence, the author of the article seems to imply that the execution chamber where Cheng Kejie was executed was located inside Qincheng Prison, in light of the fact that the text specifically states that Cheng Kejie was “identified” in Qincheng Prison. The article’s author seems to be suggesting that the execution chamber is located inside Qincheng Prison.
Cheng Kejie on trial in court. (Public Domain) Cheng Kejie on trial in the courtroom. (Public Domain)
“Just a week before Cheng Kejie went to his death, his mistress Li Ping was sentenced to Life in prison in the second trial for her surrender and meritorious performance.” A lengthy article published in the official Chinese Communist Party media documenting China’s women’s prisons describes it this way, “On July 13 and 14, 2000, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court held a public hearing on Cheng Kejie’s bribery case in accordance with the law. When the judge presented the evidence and questioned Cheng Kejie, Cheng Kejie took the blame on himself, and his big deal was to save Li Ping’s life.” “After Cheng Kejie was executed, the judiciary at first blocked the news to Li Ping. But then Li Ping learned of the situation and was so distraught that she went on a hunger strike in prison with the intention of going with Cheng Kejie, and they staged a life-and-death love affair under the bars.”
Readers and listeners should note that Li Ping, Cheng Kejie’s mistress, was sentenced to life imprisonment or because of “surrender and meritorious performance”, otherwise, she might have ended up like Cheng Kejie. The difference is that if she is sentenced to death, she will certainly not be executed by lethal injection in the execution chamber of Qincheng prison, because she is not enough level.
The most regrettable thing about Li Ping, who had already gotten the status of a Hong Kong businessman, was probably the “meritorious” and “light” sentence she received in exchange for a life sentence, after the second trial ruling upheld the life sentence. The “surrender” episode.
The time period in which Cheng Kejie and Li Ping took bribes together was all during the period when Cheng Kejie was the chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region government. At that time, Cheng Kejie, because of his short party experience, had no idea that he would be allocated the quota of Zhuang deputies in the future vice chairman of the National People’s Congress, so he designed his retirement life after the age of sixty-five to spend the rest of his life with Li Ping in Hong Kong. Even the Chinese central media at the time admitted in its article on Cheng Kejie that his relationship with Li Ping was “different” and that the two of them “had developed a genuine relationship through mutual use”.
Li Ping’s so-called “meritorious” background in prison was revealed by a mainland Chinese netizen at the time to be the result of case officers showing Li Ping photos of Cheng Kejie with other women, which caused Li Ping to lose control of his emotions and once The company’s main business is to promote the development of the company’s products and services.
A more sensational insider story revealed in the mainland Chinese online media at the time was that Han Lubin, then the prosecutor general of the Supreme Procuratorate, had a “personal vendetta” against Cheng Kejie, saying that “(back then) old Jiang was ready to take down a vice state-level official to fight corruption. The persimmon picked the soft one to pinch, and picked Cheng Kejie. In addition, Cheng Kejie and the then top prosecutor Han loom bin had a personal vendetta, Han loom bin is Jiang Zemin’s beloved, Han loom bin estimated in front of Jiang Zemin said a lot of bad things about Cheng Kejie, the old Jiang then decided to kill Cheng Kejie forget.”
This statement is a bit too conspiratorial, but it is true that the top prosecutor at that time was Han Lubin, and this Han Lubin was indeed one of Jiang Zemin’s main political cronies brought from Shanghai to the central government in Beijing.
Cheng Kejie’s mistress, Li Ping, is on trial in court. (Public Domain) Li Ping, mistress of Cheng Kejie, on trial in court. (Public Domain)
As for the “problem” between Cheng Kejie and Han Lubin, it was long before this Han Lubin was transferred to the Shanghai Railway Bureau director.
Cheng Kejie, who claims to be a bitter child raised by the Party from the mountains of Zhuang, was born in 1933 and was originally a railroad engineer, with all his work experience in the Liuzhou Railway Bureau in Guangxi before joining the Guangxi Autonomous Region government.
Han Lubin, who was a year older than Cheng Kejie, also served in the Guangxi Liuzhou Railway Bureau for a long time after the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party. But until Han was promoted from deputy director of the Guangxi Liuzhou Railway Bureau to director of the Shanghai Railway Bureau in 1983, a period of more than 30 years, he was separated from Cheng Kejie by several levels. And Cheng Kejie is entirely because of his Zhuang engineer “minority intellectual” background, only in the Han loom Bin transferred to Shanghai the following year was arranged to join the party ……. It can be seen that this two people in the year of Guangxi Liuzhou Railway Bureau system “contradiction to deep” speculation, lacking the necessary premise.
To put it in perspective, the age difference of only one year between Cheng Kejie and Han Lubin are from the Guangxi Liuzhou Railway Bureau, and both were “elected” at the same time vice state-level leaders.
In March 1998, Cheng Kejie was elected vice chairman of the Ninth National People’s Congress at the first session with a “high vote. In another vote on the same day, Han Lubin, who was “recommended” by the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee to be the prosecutor general of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, set an unprecedented record for votes lost by the CPC since the introduction of the “National People’s Congress system. Of the 2,900,150 votes cast, only 1,919 were in favor of the proposal, while 950 were against it and 344 abstained, a total loss of 35 percent. This record has not been broken so far.
It is well known that in a normal democratic system, where voters are truly free to make their own choices, it is rare for one of the contenders for any office to receive more than 60 percent of the votes cast. But under the Communist Party’s “people’s congress system,” first, candidates for each national leadership position are appointed by the Communist Party’s Central Political Bureau and its Standing Committee; second, candidates for each specific position are elected on a “quota basis” that does not allow voters the freedom of choice; and third, a significant number of candidates are elected on a “quota basis” that does not allow voters the freedom of choice. “Secondly, the candidates for each specific office are elected by “equal numbers” without the freedom of choice of the voters; secondly, a considerable number of “people’s deputies” are absolute “tame tools” of the Communist regime, and some of them have the basic quality of exercising their personal political judgment. Although some of the “people’s deputies” have the basic quality of exercising their personal political judgment, they are subject to considerable political pressure – although they are voting by secret ballot.
And in this several “political insurance” premise, Han loom Bin actually lost thirty-five percent of the votes, enough to show that all the deputies to the National People’s Congress to vote, who are willing and dare to express dissenting views of the group, may not agree to this “no legal experience”, Education is only an element of the “legal work”. The fact that the NPC is a political crony of Jiang Zemin with “no legal experience” and an education level of only “cultured college”, was promoted from the Minister of Railways to the very important post of Supreme Procurator General.
After the “election” on March 17, a deputy to the National People’s Congress had no qualms about complaining to the other deputies in his delegation that the promotion of a Minister of Railways, who should have retired according to state regulations, to the post of our country’s top prosecutor was a joke on the construction of the Republic’s legal system. Our propaganda claims to strengthen the construction of the legal system, claims to intellectualize and professionalize cadres. How can the “professional” of the Minister of Railways and the professional of the top procurator be the same thing? I really don’t know how the top is thinking.
After the same CPPCC session, a CPPCC member who was allowed to attend the NPC meeting was reminded of Lu Ying, the president and editor-in-chief of People’s Daily, who was promoted by Yao Wenyuan during the “Cultural Revolution“. At that time, Lu Ying, who was a “rebel”, was scornfully called the “white-letter editor-in-chief” because her most characteristic feature was that she often had to read out a few white letters. Now, Jiang Zemin, who also started out in Shanghai with Yao Wenyuan, has promoted a “legally illiterate prosecutor general”.
Former Supreme Procurator General Han Lubin. (Public Domain) Former Supreme Procurator General Han Lingbin. (Public Domain)
In the future, a person who claimed to be “familiar with the inside story” revealed that it was true that Cheng Kejie was elected with a high number of votes, but all of the ethnic minority representatives in the NPC and CPPCC, including himself, were “elected with a high number of votes. “The reason why Han loombin lost the number of votes is that he was not elected. The reason why Han loom Bin lost a record number of votes, not only because he is “legally illiterate”, and even in his decades of immersion in the railway system, but also a lifetime never had half a day of school life experience of “scientific illiteracy”, or even semi-literate.
Unlike Cheng Kejie, who not only had a full degree in motion engineering from the Department of Railway Business of the Northern Jiaotong University, but also was a preparatory student of the International Student Department of the Russian Language School in Beijing, and already had the title of chief engineer of the railroad branch before he became an official in the Chinese Communist Party. Because of such a contrast, after Cheng Kejie and Han Lubin both became vice-level leaders in March 1998, Cheng Kejie once expressed his disdain for Han Lubin on private occasions, disdaining him for his “qualifications but no education” and shaming him for being a “ticket-runner at the National People’s Congress”. The “king of vote running” on ……..
Whether or not Cheng Kejie was really Han loom “personal vendetta” is another story, but compared to the future was “left under the knife” of the second generation of red Chen Tonghai, Cheng Kejie not only their own death injustice, compared to the “residence review “Compared to Chen Tonghai’s mistress Li Wei, who was freed and settled in Hong Kong after more than three years, Cheng Kejie’s mistress Li Ping, who is still serving her sentence in Beijing Women’s Prison, is even more unjust.
As we mentioned in our previous article in this column, Li Wei received a partial stake in 183 Sinopec gas stations in Beijing the first time she slept with Chen Tonghai. And how much did Li Wei receive from Chen Tonghai, as well as from the many other high-ranking Communist Party officials with whom she engaged in “power deals”? Although we may never know the exact figure, logically, it must be N times the total amount of bribes Li Ping and Cheng Kejie received together. Compared to Li Ping’s “lenient” life sentence, Li Wei was able to regain her freedom quickly because of her special political background, such as her main lover Chen Tonghai’s “red generation” and “red man under Zhu Rongji “In addition to the special political background of her lover Chen Tonghai, Li Wei was able to quickly regain her freedom because all the secrets between her lover and her lover, a large number of high-ranking officials of vice provincial and ministerial level or above, were her bargaining power with the CCP authorities during her “residence review”.
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