Public opinion has continued after the Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Bureau moved into the luxurious office building Pearl River City Tower in 2018. On April 20 of this year, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) reported that a provincial bureau had moved into a commercial office building in violation of the law, saying that the person in charge had been filed for review. The mainland media said the “provincial bureau” is the Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Bureau.
On April 20, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) issued a notice on the progress of rectification of the fifth round of inspection by the 19th Central Committee of the CPC State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (hereinafter referred to as “the notice”), mentioning that a provincial bureau (company) of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration had irregularly moved into a landmark super Grade A commercial office building, and said that the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology had filed a case against the person in charge for review and accountability.
However, the notification, the list of those responsible for the accountability was not published, and did not directly name which tobacco bureau.
However, QQ.com’s “Fenglei Finance” article late on April 21 disclosed that the notification said a provincial bureau is the Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Bureau, but also said that industry insiders believe that the reason for not directly naming the tobacco bureau is to avoid the tobacco bureau again into the whirlpool of public opinion.
It is reported that the Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Bureau has been caught in the whirlwind of public opinion since it moved into the luxurious Zhujiang City building.
The aforementioned report said that at the end of December 2018, the Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Bureau moved into the Zhujiang City Building against the wind, until it was named by the third inspection team of the Central Government on August 19, 2020. In the evening of September 10 of the same year, the sign of “Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Monopoly Bureau” and “China National Tobacco Corporation Guangdong Province” was quietly removed from the first floor lobby on the north side of Zhujiang City Building. In other words, the Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Monopoly Bureau moved into the luxury office building Zhujiang City Building for a total of about 630 days.
On November 25 of the same year, the Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Monopoly Bureau director and party secretary Liu Yiping was removed from his post, and also removed from his position as general manager of China National Tobacco Corporation Guangdong Province and other three positions, and was reassigned as an inspector.
Liu Yiping, a native of Jiaoling, Guangdong Province, was transferred from the general manager of Hebei China Tobacco to the Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Bureau on May 8, 2017, and served as a hand. Less than five days after assuming his new position, Liu Yiping met to study the matter of renovating and relocating the Pearl River City Building. In less than 20 days, Liu Yiping issued a letter to officially launch the project; bidding was invited in January 2018, construction in March, and the building was officially moved in on December 18, when the renovation work was not yet completed.
Reports indicate that on December 19, 2018, the day after moving into the Pearl River City building, the director of the bureau, Liu Yiping, opened a general meeting of all Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Bureau employees, saying that the company’s smooth move into Pearl River City was the best tribute to Guangdong Tobacco’s 35th anniversary and the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up.
However, the Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Monopoly Bureau relocated the luxury office building and its aftermath, the amount of expenditure is huge.
To repeatedly renovate the office area of the Zhujiang City Building before and after, the Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Monopoly Bureau spent hundreds of millions of RMB (the same below); the office area of the Bureau included the 6th floor and 59th to 68th floors of the Zhujiang City Building, totaling 11 floors, with annual rent and property management fees of more than 70 million RMB, and a large area of unused space; the office area had a hollow staircase for sightseeing and was equipped with new high-end furniture and appliances; the Bureau’s Director Liu Yiping’s office is the same as a luxury room in a high-end hotel, with a bathroom, shower room, bedroom, Simmons, high-grade closet, etc. The shower room has several tens of thousands of a shower, a towel hook are 3,000 yuan.
According to the report, it is estimated that the Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Monopoly Bureau moved in more than a year, the rent of about 146 million yuan, property management fees of 0.21 billion yuan, a total of about 167 million yuan.
The old office building of the Guangdong Provincial Tobacco Bureau (located in Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, Linhe East Road) has only been in use for 21 years (moved in 1998), the area and function can continue to use, but the Bureau said that the old office building “there are safety hazards”, but also once “sell tragedy”, said The preferred option for relocation is the old warehouse and small office building of Guangzhou Cigarette Factory No. 1 or Factory No. 2.
Previously, the Sohu “fox degree” article pointed out that many local tobacco monopoly bureau are alleged to have luxury office buildings, such as the 2012 Hunan Loudi City Tobacco Monopoly Bureau was exposed to spend 230 million to build a luxury office building; in 2014, the county-level city of Xiaoyi, Shanxi Tobacco Bureau spent a lot of money to build a luxury office building, the cost of civil engineering up to 212 million yuan; the same year, Henan Hebi City Tobacco Bureau also built a luxury office building was exposed.
In addition, in June 2020, Zhao Hongshun, former deputy director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, was sentenced to life imprisonment and confiscation of all property for taking bribes (allegedly over 90 million yuan); before Zhao Hongshun, officials from Fujian, Guangxi, Yunnan, Liaoning, and Henan tobacco systems have all fallen.
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