Five Officials Fall in Hubei; Real Estate Developer Flees

There is nothing atypical about this story. Land sales make up the majority of most local governments' revenue and there was lots of money to be made in the real estate bubble. Corruption is just another accelerant that could help turn the slowdown in real estate into a crash.

湖北两天内5高官落马 宜昌开发商纷纷跑路

Hubei official since the "Tiger" Guo Youming sacked aftershocks. In just two days just past, there are five officials have "trouble."

Just yesterday, deputy director of the NPC Standing Committee Wang Hongjiang Yichang City, Hubei Daily Yun Zhang Qin, general manager of Media Group, Wuhan Economic and Information Technology Commission of Yuxin Guo three "Hall official" investigation traced after another. Due to the presence of which Wang Hongjiang intersection with the former vice governor of Hubei Province, Guo Youming more attention.

"First Financial Daily" reporters comb found Woan Chuanan high incidence of corruption has become a major feature of crime. Destroyed a "tiger" with a bunch of "flies" in the case, along with the continued strengthening of anti-corruption efforts after eighteen, has shown increasing trend.

"Central inspection team is mainly for provincial or ministerial level visits, clues are mainly transferred to the Central Discipline Inspection Commission and Organization Department, but the relevant departments in the process of investigating the provincial and ministerial level officials will inevitably involve some departmental cadres, because power is on a chain. "There are anti researchers told reporters.

Yichang business and political earthquake

Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision Department website yesterday news shows, Wang Hongjiang because of alleged serious violation, the organization undergoing investigation. This is the second Guo Youming, Zheng Xinghua, third Yichang senior officials sacked.

A local political insider "First Financial Daily" reporters, and Guo Youming, Zheng Xinghua, like Wang Hongjiang also checked with land issues.

Reporters found that access to their resume this year, 60-year-old Wang Hongjiang was just two years ago in January was transferred to the National People's Congress of Yichang. In the previous six years and more time, Wang Hongjiang has served as deputy mayor of Yichang City, is in charge of urban and rural areas of planning, urban construction, urban management, land resources, public security and judicial.

Yichang local real estate sector over insider told reporters, Yichang, a major real estate company for its two land transport interests of 150 million yuan to Guo Youming, whose boss was isolated investigation.

Coincidentally, the current status of the real estate industry is in Yichang, several local developers due to similar reasons above was taken away for investigation, small developers have fled abroad bosses are sheltered, medium-sized developers ushered in the spring of development.

However, a local medium-sized developers Yichang has complained to reporters, said, Recently, major banks in order not to be involved Guo Youming Woan, afraid to lend to real estate companies.

Yichang local financial industry insider said, Yichang Wine Group, a large security company involved Guo Youming Woan also due to the depth of the parent involvement. The security company with registered capital of up to 600 million yuan, is the main financing channels to local SMEs, the banks are not lending their money received only directly affect the normal financing local SMEs.

Reporters from several independent sources informed that as of March, Guo Youming amount involved hundreds of millions, and because justice has not been handed over, this data is likely to remain incomplete for.

Combating the spread of depth

Wang Hongjiang, Zhang Qin Yun, Yu Xinguo, deputy director of the Hubei Provincial Bureau of Commerce Liping An Huanggang City, Hubei Province, deputy director of SASAC Lu Lijun ...... just two days, Hubei officialdom that five senior officials have been arrested for serious violation, receiving organization investigation or removal.

Prior to March 26 - 27, the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection announced a series of Huanggang City, Deputy Secretary of Human Resources and Social Security Bureau fee Tianbao, Jingmen City Committee Chairman Paul duodao District Chu group under investigation for alleged serious violation of the news. In February, Xianning, Hubei SASAC Deputy Director Wang Haiquan, deputy director of Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Department, who is also a series 张震龙 checked.

Today, the Hubei provincial leadership has called for the strengthening of supervision and inspection at all levels, the introduction of new regulations to ensure that the local party and government discipline decided to implement in place. Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection 2014 inspections have been opened, it will be on 8 Jingzhou City, Ezhou, Yichang, Wuhan, Huangshi, Xiangyang, Jingmen, Xiaogan, etc. to carry out inspections.

Supreme Procuratorate carried out analysis that taking down suspects collusion, both inside and outside the joint, joint planning, etc. crime, criminal groups based on the 2013 national characteristics significantly prosecutors for investigation of corruption cases.

Reporters combed found that the deputy provincial level (or above) officials sacked, often accompanied by the further development of the chain of corruption, "the second wave of corruption," the bureau level, county level corrupt officials hit.

Hubei, for example, after Guo Youming, former vice chairman of CPPCC Hubei Province Chen Baihuai and other provincial officials sacked deputy, then there are more officials traced the above investigation. Collusion although there evidence of the relationship between them, but which many people's biographical evident intersection.

Since 2012 after the Sichuan Provincial Party Secretary Li, former deputy city, Sichuan province, former chairman of the CPPCC Li Chongxi, Man United, former chairman Guo Yongxiang Sichuan provincial and ministerial level officials have been checked shake Sichuan political and business circles, there have been a large number of officials of the incident, including was recently named by the mayor of Suining He surveyed Hua Zhang, Li was seen as the city of love will.

Earlier, the chairman of the CPPCC Wuhou Wu Yong, deputy mayor of Zouping Nanchong, Sichuan Product Quality Supervision and Inspection and testing centers have been sacked former president LEE Wing whole.

The same situation also staged Jiangxi and Anhui provinces.


December 2013, Jiangxi People's Congress deputy 任陈安 congregation was declared after investigation, anti-corruption efforts continue to strengthen political Jiangxi Province. Within the next three months, Yao Mugen, vice governor of Jiangxi Province, Pingxiang City Committee Chairman Yan Dewen, Party Secretary Zhang Xuemin Pingxiang, Jiangxi Huichang county clerk 傅春荣 and many others have been sacked.

June 2013, former vice governor of Anhui Province, Ni Fake alleged serious violation being investigated, the number of leading cadres have checked Anhui, Wuhu Agriculture Commission, including Deputy Director Hu Dongming, Lu'an Working Committee 魏力生 et al.

"Involves the Office of the provincial and ministerial level officials, officials at how to deal with the case, according to the extent of its relationship with the provincial and ministerial level officials may be dark if the extent of the relationship, then the central direct control; If the extent of the relationship between light, or involved question does not constitute a major problem, then generally in accordance with the administrative level of the investigation by the local Commission for Discipline Inspection to officials investigating two are different, can not be generalized. "these anti-corruption research, told reporters.