Wang Tieliang, former secretary of the Communist Party’s Xinmi Municipal Committee and deputy director of the Zhengzhou People’s Congress in Henan Province
Wang Tieliang, former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, China, fell from grace last year, according to a recently released indictment that shows he took a bribe of 400,000 yuan in the “open-chest lung test” case that shocked China in 2009 and helped the company involved avoid a shutdown.
In June 2009, Zhang Hechao, a migrant worker in Xinmi City, Henan Province, had to have his chest biopsied in order to prove that he was suffering from the occupational disease “pneumoconiosis”.
According to Chinese media, the recently released indictment revealed that in July 2009 and before the Spring Festival in 2010, then Xinmi Municipal Party Secretary Wang Tieliang received 400,000 yuan in cash from Hou Moumou, the chairman of the company in question, at his father’s home on two separate occasions, and used his position to help the company avoid shutdown and consolidation.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, from 2002 to 2015, Wang Tieliang used his position to benefit others, accepting and soliciting other people’s property worth a total of more than 41 million yuan.
After the incident of Zhang Haichao was widely exposed by the media, Wang Tieliang requested at the meeting that all departments give a satisfactory answer to the person concerned, Zhang Haichao, within the shortest possible time. Ltd.”, the Xinmi Municipal Party Committee gave Hou Zhendong, secretary of the general branch of the enterprise, one year’s probation, and held Zheng Navy, the head of the enterprise’s logistics, responsible for the law, and fined the company 250,000 yuan.
Zhang Hechao, a migrant worker in Xinmi, Henan, shows two different diagnostic certificates in July 2009 (online photo)
Zhang Hechao, then 28 years old, was a crusher and press worker at Zhengzhou Zhendong Wear-resistant Material Company. After 2007, he began to feel unwell, spitting yellow saliva, stuffing his nostrils and ears with yellow dust, and damaging his lungs. However, his employer refused to provide him with relevant certificates and compensation, and Zhang Hechao had to go on the operating table and let the doctor open his chest, and finally got a work injury recognition.
According to Southern Metropolis Daily, local officials were pressured by public opinion in July 2009 and came to offer their condolences one after another. The secretary of the municipal party committee said after stepping into Zhang’s house with a photographer, “Haichao, my brother is late!” Then picked up Zhang Haichao daughter, left cheek kiss over kiss right face. The surging news learned that this “enthusiastic” leader is Wang Tieliang.
From 2009 to 2014, Wang Tieliang was evaluated by the media as a “personality official” during his administration of Xinmi, “work style is very hard to the people is very soft”. He has shut down more than 300 quarries and most of the coal mines in the city; made his QQ number public; and dismissed more than a dozen officials in a year through mass review.
In the eleventh year after Zhang Hechao’s open-chest lung test and seventh year after his lung transplant, he still has to take nearly 100 pills every day, driving a bus while raising his lungs, working endlessly for medical bills and his daughter’s tuition, and running into debt. He recalled to Phoenix Weekly last year, “Many patients envied me and said you are too lucky. But this kind of luck is unattainable. For society, it is also sad to describe pneumoconiosis patients as lucky when they have to open their chests for lung tests to get compensation for work-related injuries.”
According to the “Survey Report on Migrant Workers with Pneumoconiosis in China (2020)” released by Da Ai Qingduan, an NGO concerned with Chinese pneumoconiosis patients, the per capita monthly income of pneumoconiosis farmers’ families is only 392 yuan, and pneumoconiosis migrant workers who get an occupational disease diagnosis account for only one-fifth of the patients interviewed.
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