In Guizhou Province this year, the officialdom has been undergoing continuous cleansing, with 14 department-level cadres being investigated, and 9 officials being investigated just in February alone. The latest case involves Liu Lan, the former Deputy Mayor of Guiyang City, who is under investigation, while the former Mayor of Guiyang City, Ma Ningyu, was investigated six months ago.
On February 26, the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Communist Party of China in Guizhou Province announced that Liu Lan, a member of the Party group of the Guiyang City Government and the Deputy Mayor, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and is currently under disciplinary review and supervision investigation by the Discipline Inspection Commission of Guizhou Province.
Public resumes show that Liu Lan, born in 1973 in Chongqing, graduated from the Clinical Medicine Department of Guizhou Medical College in 1995. She has held various positions in the Guizhou Provincial Health Commission, including Deputy Director of the Personnel Department, Deputy Director of the Science and Education Department, Director of Rural Health Management Department, and Director of the Grassroots Health Department of the Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission.
In the past year, the officialdom in Guiyang has been in continuous turmoil, with several officials being targeted for scrutiny.
Sun Shaoxue, the Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Guiyang Municipal Committee, was investigated in March last year; Ma Ningyu, the Mayor of Guiyang City, was investigated in August last year. Before that, three successive mayors of Guiyang, Li Zaiyong, Liu Wenxin, and Chen Yan, were all dismissed.
Recently, Li Yuanping, the Secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission, wrote in the magazine “Chinese Discipline Inspection and Supervision” that 122 provincial-level cadres in Guizhou were investigated last year, 47 were placed under disciplinary inspection, and 51 were transferred to judicial authorities. He also claimed that the anti-corruption task in the region remains “arduous”.
So far this year, 14 department-level cadres in Guizhou Province have been investigated, with 9 officials being investigated just in February, including Jing Yaping, former Director of the Guizhou Provincial Big Data Development Administration, Liu Jian, former Party Secretary of the Guizhou People’s Hospital, and Chen Bo, Deputy Director of the Guizhou Provincial Agriculture and Rural Affairs Department.
In addition, on February 26, Shi Changzheng, former Director of the Traffic Management Bureau of the Guizhou Provincial Public Security Department, was sentenced to 12 years in prison; on January 9, Zhang Ping, former Deputy Secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission and former Deputy Director of the Provincial Supervision Commission, was publicly prosecuted; just a week before Zhang Ping’s prosecution, Liu Wenxin, former Deputy Secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Political and Legal Committee, was sentenced to death with a reprieve, charged with four offenses, one of which involved a bribe amounting to over 600 million yuan.