On December 30, Shu Qing assumed his new position as Vice Mayor of Shanghai and Director of Shanghai Public Security Bureau. Shu Qing has ties to Wang Xiaohong, the current executive vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, who once served in Henan Province. His predecessor, Gong Daogan, was allegedly a close associate of Meng Jianzhu, former secretary of the Central Committee of Political and Legal Affairs.
According to Shangguan News, on the morning of December 30, the twenty-eighth meeting of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress considered and voted on personnel appointments and dismissals: Shu Qing was appointed as vice mayor of Shanghai and director of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau.
According to official information, Shu Qing, former vice governor of Henan Province and head of the Public Security Bureau, was appointed president of the Shanghai Public Security Academy in early December, while the December 29 issue of the People’s Public Security Daily disclosed that Shu Qing had been appointed as a member of the party group of the Shanghai Municipal Government and secretary of the Party Committee of the Public Security Bureau.
According to public information, Shu Qing, 56, who has a PhD in geography from East China Normal University, worked at the State Environmental Protection Administration for a long time before being parachuted into Henan to serve as secretary of the Gongyi Municipal Party Committee, mayor of Xinxiang, and secretary of the Xinxiang Municipal Party Committee, and has ties with Wang Xiaohong, who served as executive vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security in Henan, and is a close associate of Xi Jinping.
In January 2017, Shu Qing became vice governor of Henan Province, and six months later, in July of that year, he was also secretary of the Party Committee and director of the Henan Provincial Public Security Department and deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the CPC Henan Provincial Committee, before taking up his post in Shanghai this month. Shu Qing is an alternate member of the 19th CPC Central Committee.
Shu Qing’s predecessor, Shanghai Public Security Director Gong Daogan, has fallen from grace.
On August 18 this year, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Gong Daogan, vice mayor of Shanghai and director of the city’s public security bureau, was under investigation. Gong Daogan is the first deputy minister-level “tiger” to fall in Shanghai since the 19th CPC National Congress.
The official announcement did not mention the reason for Gong’s investigation. But Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao reported on Aug. 19 that according to sources, Gong was involved in serious disciplinary violations during his tenure as director of the 12th Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. The newspaper said that the 12th Bureau is the technological investigation agency of the public security system, specializing in listening, tracking and positioning of relevant cases.
Gong’s fall is seen as another storm in the CCP’s political and legal system. Gong Daoan is said to have been the former secretary of the CCP’s Political Affairs Committee, Meng Jianzhu’s right-hand man.
Gong, 56, is a police officer who has long served in the public security system in Hubei Province. He was involved in the investigation of the case of Zhang Jian, head of the Public Security Ministry’s Technical Investigation Bureau, which is said to be one of Hu’s and Wen’s actions to remove Zhou Yongkang from power at the 18th National Congress, and was executed by Meng Jianzhu.
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