On the afternoon of November 28th, the website of the Supervision Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection released a message saying that Zhu Mingguo, chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Political Consultative Conference, was suspected of serious violation of discipline and law and was currently under investigation.
According to the inquiry of The Paper (www.thepaper.cn), Zhu Mingguo became the 57th official at or above the provincial level who was dismissed after the 18th National Congress.
Zhu Mingguo, who has worked in Hainan, Chongqing and Guangdong provinces, has been engaged in politics, law and discipline inspection for a long time.
When he was in Guangdong, he was widely praised for his proper handling of the Wukan incident, but he was also criticized for his flawed "three strikes and two constructions".
Although Zhu Mingguo had been caught in the rumors of falling horse as early as six months ago, the investigation was still very sudden-on November 28th, he also appeared in local official media reports.
He has served in three provinces and has jurisdiction over political and legal discipline inspection.
Zhu Mingguo was born in Wuzhishan, Hainan, which was under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province in May 1957. He joined the Party in October 1975 and joined the work in August 1974. He graduated from the three-year training course of the Training Department of the Central Party School with a postgraduate degree, a senior political engineer and deputy commissioner general. He is currently the chairman of Alternate members of the CPC Central Committee and Guangdong Provincial Political Consultative Conference.
In 1974, Zhu Mingguo’s first job was as a teacher at Maozhao Primary School in Changhao Commune, Baoting County, Guangdong Province, when he was only 17 years old.
Before the end of the "Cultural Revolution", he became the secretary of the Party branch and director of the Revolutionary Committee of the Baoguo Brigade of Changhao Commune in Baoting County. This job lasted until 1978 after the end of the Cultural Revolution. In 1980, 23-year-old Zhu Mingguo became the deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Changhao Commune, and later he was promoted to Party Secretary.
In 1982, Zhu Mingguo, a successful teenager but without higher education, entered the cadre specialized course of the Law Department of Sun Yat-sen University to further enrich his ability as a leading cadre.
Two years later, in 1984, Zhu Mingguo graduated from the cadre specialized course and became the member of the Standing Committee of Baoting County Committee. In the same year, he was immediately transferred to the position of deputy director of the organization department of Hainan Autonomous Prefecture Committee of Guangdong Province and secretary of the Party Committee of the state organs.
During this period, Zhu Mingguo went to the training department of the Central Party School for a three-year training course. Hainan was established as a province in 1988. On April 26th of that year, the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee and Hainan Provincial People’s Government were officially listed, and Zhu Mingguo was appointed as the deputy director of the Organization Department of Hainan Provincial Committee.
From 1993 to 1994, Zhu Mingguo served as secretary of Wenchang County Party Committee, ranking from official to deputy department level. In 1995, Zhu Mingguo was also the county magistrate of Wenchang County. In February of that year, he was clearly designated as a cadre at the department level. After Wenchang County was changed to Wenchang City in 1995, Zhu Mingguo also served as secretary and mayor of Wenchang Municipal Committee. From September of that year to July of the following year, Zhu Mingguo entered the Central Party School for the second time and attended the training class for young and middle-aged cadres.
From 1998 to 2001, Zhu Mingguo served as member of the Standing Committee of Hainan Provincial Party Committee, vice governor and secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Provincial Party Committee. Since then, Zhu Mingguo has been mainly engaged in politics, law and discipline inspection. In 2001, Zhu Mingguo was transferred to Chongqing as a member of the Standing Committee of Chongqing Municipal Committee and director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau. The following year, he also served as secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of Chongqing Municipal Committee, during which he was awarded the rank of Deputy commissioner general.
In 2006, Zhu Mingguo returned to Guangdong and worked as the secretary of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission for five years. During his tenure, he was promoted from the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee to the Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. In 2011, after Huang Xianyao, secretary of the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, was transferred to Guangdong as the secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, Zhu Mingguo became the director of the newly established Guangdong Provincial Social Work Committee and later served as the secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Provincial Party Committee.
In 2013, Zhu Mingguo’s official career reached its peak. In this year, he was elected as the chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Political Consultative Conference and stepped into the ranks of ministerial level. In November of the same year, he no longer served as the deputy secretary and standing committee member of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee.
"Wukan incident" and "three strikes and two constructions"
As a cadre who grew up in Guangdong and worked in Guangdong for a long time, Zhu Mingguo’s "achievements" are memorable, including investigating the corruption case in Maoming, "Wukan incident" and "three strikes and two constructions".
During his tenure as secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, Zhu Mingguo investigated and dealt with many major corruption cases. Among them, the case of Luo Yinguo, former secretary of Maoming Municipal Committee, is the most influential.
In February, 2011, Luo Yinguo was investigated, which uncovered the local corruption case of buying and selling officials. Afterwards, the Guangdong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection revealed that the case involved a total of 242 officials at or above the county level, including Yang Guangliang, former member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and executive deputy mayor; Ni Junxiong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, secretary of the Political and Legal Committee and director of the public security bureau; Zhu Yuying, former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress; and Chen Yachun, former deputy mayor. 61 people were put on file for investigation, including 19 provincial cadres and 42 cadres below the county level, and 20 people were transferred to judicial organs.
In October 2010, Zhu Mingguo led a delegation to Singapore to learn the experience of fighting corruption and promoting honesty, and combined with the reality of Guangdong Province, wrote the article "Why Singapore can be clean and efficient". The article writes, "Official corruption is the most harmful corruption. It is necessary to improve the entry threshold for civil servants and focus on reviewing moral cultivation, financial status and social relations. "
The highlight of Zhu Mingguo’s career is the Wukan Incident. On the morning of September 21, 2011, more than 400 villagers in Wukan Village were dissatisfied with the village cadres because of land problems, financial problems and election problems, and went to Lufeng Municipal Government to petition. Since then, the situation has changed several times. On December 20th, Zhu Mingguo, then deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, led the provincial working group to Wukan to deal with the crisis.
Nanfang Daily reported that when Zhu Mingguo came to Wukan village, he picked up a megaphone and shouted loudly to the villagers, announcing that the main demands of the people in Wukan village were reasonable and that some cadres did have problems in their work. At the same time, he also promised to ensure the safety of villagers who reflected the problem.
A villager in Wukan village told The Paper that when Zhu Mingguo arrived in the village, he first resolved the confrontation between the local officials and the people, and he was willing to communicate with the villagers, which quickly calmed things down. Since then, Zhu Mingguo also paid a return visit to Wukan twice, which contributed to a number of local livelihood projects. The villagers’ comments on this senior official from the province are generally positive.
After returning to the political and legal system from the discipline inspection system, Zhu Mingguo was an important promoter of the "three strikes and two constructions" action. At the beginning of 2012, Guangdong began to "crack down on bullying the market, crack down on counterfeiting and selling fakes, and crack down on commercial bribery" throughout the province; Building a social credit system and building a market supervision system ",for which Zhu Ming is the leader.
Yang Xu (a pseudonym), a cadre who once worked in the provincial "three strikes and two constructions", told The Paper that the starting point of "three strikes and two constructions" was very good. "Originally, the people clapped their hands and cheered, but after May, they began to overdo it, and the three strikes turned into" indiscriminate strikes "and" indiscriminate strikes ",and public grievances came up instead."
Yang Xu, for example, used to have only about 100,000 related criminal cases in the province every year, but in July and August of 2012, the number in the newspaper exceeded 300,000, which was suspected of digital fraud. "There are grocery stores in eastern Guangdong that sell products without trademarks, and there are family workshops in rural areas that have no license plates. They are fined 3,000 or 5,000 at a time, just to overstate the figures and cases, making people’s stores afraid to open."
Yang Xu believes that the problem lies in the unreasonable digital assessment and ranking mechanism: "Zhu Mingguo’s mistake is that the assessment is broken." Yang Xu recalled that at that time, the "three strikes and two constructions" directly assessed the secretary of the municipal party committee and the mayor. Once they ranked in the bottom three, the secretary of the municipal party committee and the mayor had to report to Zhu Mingguo personally, and they had to be removed from office after three consecutive rankings.
"This is too hard. Combating crime must be in accordance with the law and cannot be played in a sporty manner. " Yang Xu said that after on-the-spot investigation and reflection, this trend was stopped in August. "After August, I will not mention the conversation between the secretary of the municipal party Committee and the mayor. The assessment should also be truthfully assessed. Once the fraud is found out, it will be strictly dealt with. The speeches have repeatedly stressed that we must fight according to the law."
In Yang Xu’s eyes, it is the most terrible thing for the working group to be staffed by people who don’t understand the law. According to the introduction of Guangdong judicial system, "three strikes and two constructions" also left some sequelae. Because the administrative law enforcement personnel are not clear about the criteria that constitute a criminal offence, and there are flaws in evidence collection, the number of cases in which the procuratorial system is suspicious or relatively does not prosecute has soared in that year.
Hu Weixing, an American businessman in Huizhou, was accused of being involved in a black case. In February this year, the case was heard in Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court, and as early as November 2012, Huizhou Public Security Bureau had transferred the case to the prosecution.
According to the Southern Metropolis Daily, in the process of excluding illegal evidence during the trial, a total of 21 defendants were accused of being tortured by Huizhou police and forced to sign the interrogation record. The defendant’s alleged acts of extorting a confession by torture include hanging from the handcuffs, passing a white wax rod through the hands and feet of the handcuffs, and then "roasting the whole sheep" and electrocuting the genitals.
Yang Xu believes that the flaws in the "three strikes and two constructions" have also contributed to the establishment of an information sharing platform for the connection between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice in the province.
I was involved in the rumor of falling horse six months ago.
Zhu Mingguo, who was highly praised for the Wukan incident and criticized for the "three strikes and two constructions", was deeply involved in the "falling horse" rumor six months ago.
From March to June this year, the state of Zhu Ming did not appear in public for three months. At that time, there were rumors that Zhu Mingguo was under investigation.
In the meantime, Zhu Mingguo’s secretary once exclusively responded to The Paper’s claim that the reason why Zhu Mingguo didn’t appear in public for a long time was because he attended the advanced seminar for provincial and ministerial cadres of the Central Party School’s "Socialism with Chinese characteristics Theory System" (Phase 4) in Beijing, and the training lasted for three months.
Since then, Yangcheng Evening News published an article on June 9, saying that Zhu Mingguo attended the graduation ceremony of the Central Party School in Beijing on June 7, officially ending his three-month study.
Since then, Zhu Mingguo has appeared frequently in the media. From November 25th to 27th, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee held a seminar on special study for provincial leaders. Guangdong TV showed that Zhu Mingguo appeared at the meeting.
In the Nanfang Daily published on the morning of November 28th, related reports also mentioned that the chairman of the CPPCC had spoken at the meeting. On the same day, Zhu Mingguo was informed of his fall.
A person close to the Guangdong Provincial Political Consultative Conference revealed that until noon on the 28th, the CPPCC had not learned that Zhu Mingguo had been investigated.
Like Wan Qingliang, the former secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee, Zhu Mingguo is also an alternate member of the 18th CPC Central Committee.
According to public information, he ranked 14th among the 171 alternate members of the Central Committee. If Ma Jiantang, Wang Zuoan and Mao Wanchun, who had already replaced the Central Committee at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee, were removed, Zhu Mingguo ranked 11th among the alternate members of the Central Committee.
Zhu Mingguo also became the sixth alternate member of the 18th Central Committee after Li Chuncheng, Wang Yongchun, Wan Qingliang, Chen Chuanping and Pan Yiyang.
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