Chen Chuanping (; born February 1962) is a former Chinese politician and businessman. Chen spent 26 years in state-owned Taiyuan Iron & Steel (Group) Co. Ltd, he served as the president of Taiyuan Iron & Steel (Group) Co. Ltd. from 2001 to 2008.
/ref> He served as the Communist Party Secretary of Taiyuan between 2010 and 2014. Alongside

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, and others, he was removed from office in August 2014 for corruption, tried on charges of bribery, and sentenced to six years in prison.

Career

Chen was born and raised in

Pinglu County Pinglu County () is a county in southern Shanxi province of China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yuncheng and has a population of approximately 200,000 people. Pinglu is historically an agricultural county, produci ...

Shanxi Shanxi; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi is a Provinces of China, province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi a ...

province. Two of his later collaborators

and

Ling Zhengce Ling Zhengce ( zh, c=令政策, p=Lìng Zhèngcè; born May 1952) is a former Chinese politician from Shanxi province. From 2008 to 2014 Ling served as the vice-chairman of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consult ...

were from the same county in Shanxi. After the resumption of

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, Chen entered Shenyang University in September 1979, studying at the department of mechanics, where he graduated in August 1982. Chen also earned a Master of Science degree from

Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU; zh, p=, c=西安交通大学, labels=no) is a public university in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 9 ...

in November 2006. Chen joined the workforce in August 1982 and joined the

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in March 1985. Chen spent much of his earlier career in the steel industry. Beginning in 1982, Chen worked for the Taiyuan Iron and Steel Group, serving as a technologist, director, factory manager, and general manager. Chen served as the chairman of Taiyuan Iron and Steel Group between December 2001 to April 2008. From September 2007 to April 2008, he also served as the chairman of Taigang Stainless Steel. Chen made a transition from business to politics in 2008. Chen became the Vice Governor of Shanxi in January of that year, and remained in the position until November 2010. In September 2010, Chen was appointed the

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of the provincial capital

Taiyuan Taiyuan; Mandarin pronunciation: (Jin Chinese, Taiyuan Jin: /tʰai˦˥ ye˩˩/) is the capital of Shanxi, China. Taiyuan is the political, economic, cultural and international exchange center of Shanxi Province. It is an industrial base foc ...

and a member of the provincial

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, succeeding

Shen Weichen Shen Weichen (; born May 12, 1956) is a former Chinese politician from Shanxi province. During his career he served as the Communist Party Secretary of the city of Jinzhong in Shanxi province, the director of propaganda of Shanxi province, and th ...

Downfall

On August 23, 2014, Chen was being investigated by the

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(CCDI) for "serious violations of laws and regulations". On August 28, Chen was removed from his government posts by the

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. On February 17, 2015, at the conclusion of the CCDI investigation, Chen was expelled from the Communist Party. The investigation concluded that Chen "accepted bribes personally and through his family, used his political position to obtain illicit gain for the activities of his friends and family and for the promotion of officials and caused major loss of state assets." He was also indicted on charges of criminal bribery and abuse of power, and his case transferred to judicial authorities for prosecution. Chen was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for taking bribes and abuse of power, and fined 300,000 yuan.

References

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