Jiang Shan (; born September 1962) is a former Chinese politician who spent most of his career in east China's

Anhui Anhui is an inland Provinces of China, province located in East China. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze and Huai rivers, bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the east, Jiang ...

province. As of April 2014 he was under investigation by the

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

's internal control body, and he was expelled from the party and removed from office in December 2014. Previously he served as the

Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary A Party Committee Secretary () is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in a province, city, village, or other administrative unit. In most cases, it is the ''de facto'' highest political office of its area of jurisdictio ...

Chuzhou Chuzhou () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Anhui Provinces of China, Province, China. It borders the provincial capital of Hefei to the south and southwest, Huainan to the west, Bengbu to the northwest, and the province of Jiangsu to the ...

Life and career

Jiang was born and raised in She County,

. After college, he worked at Longfu Middle School. And later an official at the Propaganda Department of CCP Tunxi Municipal Committee. Beginning in December 1987, he served in several posts in

Huizhou District Huizhou District () is a district of Huangshan City, Anhui province, China. It has a population of 95,000 and an area of . It was carved out from Shexian County () after the 1987 renaming of the entire region from Huizhou to Huangshan City. A ...

, including secretary, deputy director, and director. He was promoted to Vice-Mayor of Huangshan in November 2000. In June 2003 he was promoted again to become the

Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary In modern politics of China, Chinese politics, a Deputy Party Committee Secretary (; also translated as Deputy Party Secretary, deputy party chief, vice party chief) serves as the lieutenant to the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary, ...

. In September 2005, he was transferred to

Hefei Hefei is the Capital city, capital of Anhui, China. A prefecture-level city, it is the political, economic, and cultural center of Anhui. Its population was 9,369,881 as of the 2020 census. Its built-up (or ''metro'') area is made up of four u ...

, capital of Anhui province, and served as the head and Party Branch Secretary of Travel Bureau of Anhui province. He served as Mayor and Deputy Communist Party Secretary of

from January 2010 to February 2012, and CCP Committee Secretary, the top political position in the city, from February 2012 to April 2014. At the same time as holding the post of Director of the Chuzhou Municipal People's Congress between July 2012 to January 2013. In April 2014, he was being investigated by the

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for "serious violations of laws and regulations". On December 30, 2014, he was expelled from the party and removed from office. In October 2017 he was sentenced to 11 years in prison on taking bribes. He was fined 1.4 million yuan and had his illegal gains confiscated.

References

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