Zhang Wenxiong (; born 4 April 1962) is a former Chinese politician, and head of the Propaganda Department of the

Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the provincial committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Hunan, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With pop ...

. He was dismissed from his position in November 2016 for investigation by the

Central Commission for Discipline Inspection The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) is the highest supervisory organ of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCDI is elected and supervised by the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, CCP National Congress. ...

Career

Zhang Wenxiong was born in Yueyang, Hunan on 4 April 1962, and he was entered to

Hunan Institute of Science and Technology The Hunan Institute of Science and Technology () is a provincial public college in Yueyang, Hunan, China. The institute has not been granted university status A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards a ...

in 1980 and graduated in 1982. Then he became the officer in Yueyang Education Bureau. From 1985 to 1994, he served in Yueyang County CCP Committee. In 1994, he transferred to Office of Hunan CCP Committee until 2001. In 2006 he became 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 ...

Huaihua Huaihua () is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Hunan province, China. It is known as the "Western Gate" of Hunan and is the largest prefecture-level city in the province.It covers and is bordered by Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous P ...

, and transferred to

Hengyang Hengyang (; ) is the second largest city of Hunan Province, China. It straddles the Xiang River about south of the provincial capital of Changsha. As of the 2020 Chinese census, Its total population was 6,645,243 inhabitants, of whom 1,290,71 ...

in 2011. In 2011, he was elected as Member of the

. Zhang became the head of the committee's Propaganda Department in August 2015.

Downfall

On November 8, 2016, Chen Shulong was placed under investigation by the CCP's

, the party's internal disciplinary body, for "serious violations of regulations". Zhang was expelled from the CCP on February 27, 2017. On August 16, 2018, Zhang was sentenced to 15 years in prison for taking bribes worth 23.35 million yuan and unidentified 51.58 million yuan property in Guilin People's Intermediate Court.

Personal life

Zhang married Tu Aifang (), a businesswoman who accompanied him from

and used Zhang's power to undertake projects all the way. In Zhang's hometown of

Yueyang Yueyang, formerly known as Yuezhou or Yochow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern shores of Dongting Lake and the Yangtze river in the northeastern corner of Hunan Province in the People's Republic of China. Yueyang has an administrative ...

, a company without sand mining qualification in which Tu held a stake had a sand mining sales amount of nearly 1 billion yuan ($156 million) in nine months, while Tu and her partners had a total profit of more than 300 million yuan ($46.8 million).

References

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