CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Friday, October 25, 2019 | 5 CHINA Graft leads to Fight or flight 16year prison sentence, fine
Former vicechairman of Inner Mongolia punished for corruption
By CAO YIN In October 2010, August 2011 [email protected] and February 2012, he also illegally obtained insider information Bai Xiangqun, former vice about some stocks and instructed chairman of the Inner Mongolia others to buy them, earning about autonomous region, was sen 17.2 million yuan, it said. tenced to 16 years in prison for The disclosure of the informa bribery, corruption, insider trad tion led others to buy the same ing and leaking insider informa stocks, from which those people tion by a court in Liaoning made a profit of more than 40.5 province on Thursday. million yuan, it added. The Dalian Intermediate Peo The court acknowledged that ple’s Court in Liaoning also Bai’s punishment is relatively ordered Bai to pay a fine of 62.5 lenient. million yuan ($8.8 million). It said that he deserved harsh Bai’s illicit gains obtained by insid punishment “because he asked for er trading and leaking insider infor bribes multiple times, and the A buffalo, defeated and chased by its opponent, dashes into a crowd after a bullfight in Huangping county, Guizhou province, on Wednes mation were ordered to be turned amount was huge, and he also ille day. Nearly 30 bulls participated in the fight attended by tens of thousands of spectators. QIAO QIMING / FOR CHINA DAILY over to the State treasury, while gally aided others in job transfers properties he received through cor and promotions many times. ruption must be returned. “But given that he pleaded Bai said he would not appeal the guilty, admitted to some bribes we Briefly ruling. hadn’t known about, reported From 1999 to 2018, Bai took major crimes of others and turned Overloaded trucks officially advantage of his various positions in over his illicit gains, we penalized SHANGHAI the region to help departments and him leniently,” the court explained. 5 killed, 9 injured individuals in coal resource alloca Born in 1962, Bai began his in traffic accident tion, real estate projects, construc career in 1984 at the educational blamed for collapse in Wuxi tion contracting and personnel bureau in Chifeng, Inner Mongo At least five people were killed promotions, according to the ruling. lia. He then served as secretary of and another nine injured in a In return, Bai solicited and accept the Communist Youth League of By WANG KEJU gests that an overweight semitrailer traffic accident during rush hour ed money and properties worth the autonomous region, mayor [email protected] 2.29 passing over the bridge caused the in Shanghai on Thursday, more than 85.2 million yuan, it said. and Party chief of Wuhai, and Party overpass to tip to one side, he said. according to the police depart Between 2008 and 2012, Bai used chief of Xilin Gol League. He took The collapse of an overpass in trillion yuan The investigation of the accident is ment of the city’s Putuo district, his position as Party chief of Wuhai the role of vicechairman of Inner Wuxi, Jiangsu province, which was spent on transport ongoing. where the accident took place. city and Xilin Gol League to illegal Mongolia in May 2012. killed three and injured two, was infrastructure in the first The ministry will step up efforts to The driver who caused the acci three quarters of the year. ly transfer public properties valued He was investigated in April caused by heavilyoverloaded vehi strengthen the quality and manage dent, a 63yearold Shanghai at more than 7.1 million yuan to 2018 for serious violations of disci cles, according to the country’s ment of highway and waterway pro native surnamed Chen, has been himself on five occasions, it said. pline and law. transport authority on Thursday. network management department, jects in a bid to better protect people’s hospitalized. Initial investigation The collapse of the upper span said at a news conference that the safety, according to Wu Chungeng, found that Chen, driving his bridge, which is 82 meters long and two trucks, each carrying more than spokesman for the ministry. daughterinlaw’s car, ignored a 9.5 m wide, happened on Oct 10 at 100 metric tons of steel, caused the The ministry has launched a red light while passing the inter the section of National Highway accident. threeyear safety inspection to rectify section of Daduhe Road and Jin Exelectricity tycoon 312 in Wuxi after two excessively Zhou stressed that the overpass potential hazards in construction shajiang Road and hit a taxi and overloaded trucks carrying piles of itself was structurally sound. projects on highways and water a motorbike. He then fled the steel coils used the overpass in suc “The bridge was constructed in ways, boost safety awareness, and scene, and at the next intersec under investigation cession. 2005 and passed the acceptance punish violations of laws and regula tion he crashed into an SUV, A woman and her 5yearold check in 2007. tions, he said. three motorbikes and several By CAO YIN position in the industry. It was daughter were crushed to death in “The main body of the bridge is More than 2.29 trillion yuan ($327 pedestrians, according to the ranked 397th on the Fortune Glob their car. A man in another car was complete without any breakage or billion) was spent on transport police. A former tycoon in China’s elec al 500 in 2018. also killed, and two other people transverse cracks, and its design infrastructure in the first three tricity industry is being investigat Yun was not the only such high were injured. meets relevant standards,” Zhou quarters of the year, with more than HEBEI ed for suspected serious violations level official in the electricity indus Zhou Rongfeng, deputy head of said. 1.67 trillion yuan going to roads and 7 dead after fire of discipline and law, the top anti try probed and punished by the top the Ministry of Transport’s road A preliminary investigation sug waterways, Wu added. corruption watchdog said on anticorruption body this week. breaks out at plant Thursday. The antigraft authority said on Seven people were killed after a The investigation of Yun Gong Tuesday that Li Qingkui, former Astro art fire broke out in a steel plant in min, exgeneral manager of China chairman of China Southern Pow Hebei province on Thursday, Huadian Corporation, one of the er, was placed on probation within local authorities said. The fire country’s Stateowned power com the Party for two years for serious occurred at around 3:30 am in a panies, is being carried out by the ly violating discipline and law. workshop of Hebei Xinghua Iron Communist Party of China Central “For a top official of the Party & Steel Co Ltd based in the city Commission for Discipline Inspec and the Stateowned company, Li of Handan, according to the tion and the National Supervisory had little political and disciplinary Hebei Provincial Department of Commission. awareness,” the authority said in a Emergency Management. Fur Yun, 69, a native of the Inner statement. ther investigation is underway. Mongolia autonomous region, It said he breached discipline by began his career at a transporta going to private clubs, using public GUANGXI tion company in his hometown. cars for personal transportation Smuggled crocodiles He took the role of the regional and improperly transferring or captured at border government’s deputy chairman in promoting other officials. 1997 and was transferred to Shanxi He also received properties Nanning customs in Guangxi province as vicegovernor in 2001. from others by either abusing his Zhuang autonomous region said Seven years later, he became power or gaining them through they seized 806 smuggled Sia the manager of the Stateowned family members, it added. mese crocodiles, a protected corporation. “Given that he confessed to his species, on the ChinaVietnam China Huadian Corporation is misconduct with a good attitude, border. The live crocodiles were one of the five Stateowned sole told us about some violations that found in a den in the city of proprietorship power generation we hadn’t known about and turned Fangchenggang on Sept 21. Six companies. Its major business cov over his illicit gains, we decided to teen suspects were caught, ers power generation, heat produc be lenient and reduce his punish including 14 Vietnamese who tion and supply, and development ment,” the authority said. illegally crossed the border, of primary energy related with Li, 63, from Shandong province, Nanning customs reported. The electricity such as coal. had worked in the electricity Students work on their model of a future spacecraft during a space design competition in Hangzhou, live crocodiles have been trans It has grown from an electric industry for a long time and Zhejiang province, on Wednesday. The event aims to promote the participation of youth in the country’s ferred to a local wildlife rescue power generator to a comprehen became chairman of China South space development. WU HUANG / FOR CHINA DAILY center. Further investigation is sive energy group with a rising ern Power in 2006. underway.
BEIJING THE PATH OF REFORM Lawyers encouraged to do work pro bono China’s Ministry of Justice on Care centers bring relief to families looking after disabled relatives Wednesday released a document to boost lawyers’ participation By LI LEI in Beijing and But the despair abated in 2017 as without jeopardizing paychecks. iors and people with disabilities “With one relative in a care center, in pro bono legal services. The SHI BAOYIN in Zhengzhou care centers began to spring up in “Without such policies, I have no who have failed to escape through a family has relief,” she said. “With document encourages lawyers to Huang’s hometown of Zhumadian, idea how could I get by,” said Huang, conventional relief measures. one family out of poverty, warmth is address the legal needs of spe With a husband in perpetual Henan province, which offered free who has been working for three Local government figures show felt by the entire region.” cial social groups including sleep and a son in college, Huang care and medical service to disabled years at the facility that hosts her Zhumadian had 97 such care cen Zhu Songtao, a local resident migrant workers, people with Cuiying, 53, thought of suicide as an people caught in financial hardships, husband and earns a monthly salary ters by July, hosting 1,770 disabled whose widowed father is a longtime disabilities, elderly people, antidote three years ago. liberating their families so that they of 2,000 yuan ($283). residents. dementia patient, said he had lost women and juveniles while pro Her husband had been in a vege could maintain a stable income. The innovative city government Last year, the program was rec many job opportunities in the past viding pro bono legal services, tative state since a 2013 car crash, The facilities are part of a poverty program has proved to have nation ommended by the central govern because he had to take care of his Zhou Yuansheng, director of the leaving behind a schoolage boy and relief program launched by the local wide significance as China is work ment as a poverty reduction tool father. With the facilities, he could Department of Directing Law endless medical bills to pay. The government to combat extreme ing to lift the remnants of its once that could be copied by other coun work in nearby construction sites yers and Notarization with the financial burden worsened after her poverty in the city. In addition, the huge destitute population out of tries. Furthermore, China Disabled and secure a decent wage. ministry, said at a news confer son was admitted to college, creat centers also employ family mem absolute poverty before 2021. Persons’ Federation Chairman ence on Wednesday. ing an extra burden for the de facto bers of disabled residents, letting Officials said many of those who Zhang Haidi spoke highly of the pro Contact the writers at single mother. them stay close to their loved ones have yet to shake off poverty are sen gram during a conference in May. [email protected] CHINA DAILY — XINHUA