Heilongjiang Province Social Sciences Academy’s former Party Secretary Ai Shuqin was investigated recently for “serious violations of discipline and law.”
According to a report from Heilongjiang Daily’s official WeChat account on November 11, Ai Shuqin was accused of obstructing investigation, engaging in profit-making activities, embezzling money, offering bribes to leading cadres, engaging in power-for-money transactions, abusing power for personal gain, illegally accepting property, and suspected of bribery. Ai Shuqin was expelled from the Party, had her benefits revoked, her ill-gotten gains confiscated, and was transferred to the judiciary for prosecution.
Seventy-year-old Ai Shuqin previously held positions such as Chairwoman of the Jixi City Women’s Federation, Chairman of the Jixi City Federation of Trade Unions, Deputy Secretary-General of the City Committee, member of the City Committee, and Minister of Propaganda. In 2003, she became the Party Secretary of Heilongjiang Province Social Sciences Academy, then in 2015, she was appointed as Deputy Director of the Legal Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People’s Congress, and resigned from related positions in the Heilongjiang Provincial People’s Congress in April 2017.
Media reports also indicated that she once served as the head of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee’s inspection team. As reported by Heilongjiang Daily on March 2, 2017, that morning, Ai Shuqin, in her capacity as the head of the Thirteenth Inspection Team of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee, provided feedback on the inspection to the provincial Public Security Bureau.
Since June of this year, several officials in Heilongjiang have been investigated, including:
– Zhang Zilin, Director of the Education, Science, Culture, and Health Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People’s Congress, was investigated on October 10.
– Lu Binghai, member of the Heilongjiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Provincial Supervisory Commission, was investigated on September 28.
– Dai Shoulun, former Party Secretary of Mudanjiang City Committee in Heilongjiang Province, was investigated on August 22.
– Wei Xingang, Party Secretary of the Health and Family Planning Commission of Heilongjiang Province, was investigated on August 19.
– Liang Ye, member of the Standing Committee of the Harbin Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, was investigated on July 2.
– Ma Danrui, former Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Harbin Municipal People’s Congress, was investigated on June 19.