Zhu Junyi (; born February 1951 in

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) was a government official in

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. Prior to his arrest during an investigation into

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in Shanghai in 2006, he had been in charge of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Labour and Social Security, Shanghai's municipal

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system.

Biography

Zhu attended the Changle Road 3rd Elementary School and Xiangli Middle School. In 1966, on leaving middle school, he joined the army in Xunke county,

Heilongjiang Heilongjiang is a province in northeast China. It is the northernmost and easternmost province of the country and contains China's northernmost point (in Mohe City along the Amur) and easternmost point (at the confluence of the Amur and Us ...

province. He returned to Shanghai in 1976, and joined the Huaihai Road production corps, rising rapidly through the ranks. The corps was renamed Shanghai Luwan District Spring Thunder Telecommunication factory. In 1983, when the factory performance made news in Shanghai by making a record profit of 1.4 million Yuan, he was declared a model labourer, and "Commando of the New

Long March The Long March ( zh, s=长征, p=Chángzhēng, l=Long Expedition) was a military retreat by the Chinese Red Army and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from advancing Kuomintang forces during the Chinese Civil War, occurring between October 1934 and ...

". In 1985, Zhu became Assistant Commissioner of the Collective Enterprise Administrative Bureau in

Luwan District Luwan District (; Shanghainese: lu1uae1 chiu1, pinyin: Lúwān Qū; formerly romanized as Lokawei) was a district located in central Shanghai, until its merger with Huangpu District in June 2011. It had an area of and population of 350,000 as ...

of Shanghai. In 1989, Zhu was promoted to Assistant Commissioner of the Collective Enterprise Administrative Bureau of Shanghai. In 1996, Zhu was made Assistant Director of the Shanghai Economics Committee. In 1998, he became head of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Labour and Social Security. He was removed from his post amidst allegations of

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, and misappropriation of funds.

Corruption allegations

He allegedly took bribes and was accused of having illegally loaned some 3.2 billion Yuan from the Shanghai Social Security Fund to Fuxi Investment Holding Co., a company owned by businessman and fellow

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(CPPCC) member

Zhang Rongkun Zhang Rongkun (; born 1973 in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Suzhou, Jiangsu) is one of the richest men in China; he was listed as China's 16th richest man on Forbes's 2005 list of the richest people in China. Zhang was a member of the Chinese People's Political ...

. Zhu is also implicated in the embezzlement of 16 billion Yuan from the fund between 1998 and 2006. He appears also to have obtained 50 million yuan for

Qiu Xiaohua Qiu may refer to: *Qiū (surname), Chinese surnames written 丘, 邱, or 秋 * Qiú (surname), Chinese surnames written 仇 or 裘 * Qiu County, in Hebei, China *Kǒng Qiū (), better known as Confucius Confucius (; pinyin: ; ; ), born Kong ...

( 邱晓华), the former director of China's National Bureau of Statistics, which was intended for Qiu's long-time lover. Zhu and Qiu knew one another through Zhang Rongkun.

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Biography

Corruption allegations

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