On May 24, 2016 (April 18, 2016 in the lunar calendar), Yang Zhenchao, Vice Governor of Anhui Province, was investigated and dismissed as four consecutive secretaries of Huainan. Yang Zhenchao follows Chen Weixi, Chen Shili and Fang Xiping, Yang Zhenchao, who is currently the vice governor and member of the party group of Anhui Province, has become the fourth former secretary of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee of Anhui Province to be dismissed in nearly 20 years since August 1996. The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Ministry of Supervision announced on May 24, 2016 that Yang Zhenchao, Vice Governor of Anhui Province, was suspected of serious violations of discipline and was currently under investigation. Yang Zhenchao's downfall was less than a month after the end of the Central Fifth Inspection Team's "look back" inspection in Anhui. At the end of February this year, the Central Inspection Team launched the first "look back" of the central inspection tour after the 18th CPC National Congress in Liaoning, Anhui, Shandong, and Hunan provinces. The work content included "re-discovering" problems that had not been discovered and "re-understanding" problems that had not yet been deeply understood. According to the previously announced time, the "review" of the above four provinces ended at the end of April. Although the feedback on "looking back" has not yet been released, officials at or above the provincial and ministerial levels have been dismissed in all four provinces except Hunan. After Su Hongzhang, former member of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Political and Legal Commission, was dismissed, the organ of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the "China Discipline Inspection and Supervision News" once issued an article stating that "the inspection 'looks back' is not 'looks back and smiles' but 'shoots back the horse.' This shot hit the key points and blood was seen in the gun." According to an informed source from Anhui political circles told the Paper reporter that on the afternoon of May 23, after attending the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, Yang Zhenchao and his secretary were taken away together by investigators of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The main issue may involve the period in charge of the province's state-owned enterprise system and the appointment of Huainan Municipal Party Committee Secretary. In the state-owned enterprise system, Anhui has previously lost corporate executives in many fields such as military industry, tobacco, and steel. In Huainan, in addition to his predecessors Chen Weixi, Chen Shili and his successor Fang Xiping, who have been dismissed, Cao Yong, the former mayor of Huainan, who once worked with Yang Zhenchao, Jiang Changsheng, the former secretary of the Huainan Panji District Committee, and Pan Qizhi, the former mayor of Panji District, have also been investigated and punished in the anti-corruption storm since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. According to many people familiar with the matter in Huainan, Yang Zhenchao and Cao Yong (right) have never been on good terms. However, according to many people familiar with the matter in Huainan, Yang Zhenchao and Cao Yong have never been on good terms. After Cao Yong was investigated and punished in November 2014, his relatives even lived in Beijing and reported Yang Zhenchao's disciplinary violations to relevant departments for a long time. It was also from then on that there were rumors in Anhui political circles that Yang Zhenchao might be dismissed. Yang Zhenchao is also the "third tiger" to fall from Anhui since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Previously, Ni Fake, former vice governor of Anhui Province, and Han Xiancong, former vice chairman of the CPPCC of Anhui Province, had accepted organizational investigations in June 2013 and July 2014 respectively. Yang Zhenchao, 56 (1960.8), a technical local official who has been deeply involved in Anhui's largest state-owned enterprise for more than 20 years, was transferred to the post of deputy governor and member of the Party Leadership Group of the Anhui Province Government in January 2013. Previously, he had served in Anhui's non-ferrous metals industry and state-owned enterprise system for a long time. From July 2007 to February 2013, he was in charge of Huainan, an important industrial town in Anhui, as secretary of the municipal party committee. According to the official website of the Anhui Province, Yang Zhenchao, male, Han nationality, born in August 1960, from Jinzhai, Anhui Province, started working in January 1977 and joined the Communist Party of China in December 1983. He has an in-service postgraduate degree, a doctorate in management, a senior engineer and a senior economist. Yang Zhenchao is a technical local official and has never left Anhui in his career. After graduating from Shenyang Gold College in July 1982, Yang Zhenchao entered Tongling Nonferrous Metals (Group) Company (hereinafter referred to as "Tongling Nonferrous Metals"), the provincial state-owned enterprise with the largest output value in Anhui, and worked for more than 20 years. In Tongling Nonferrous Metals, Yang Zhenchao started from grassroots positions such as squad leader, technician, deputy district mayor, district mayor, section chief, etc., and was promoted to leadership positions such as deputy mine manager, mine manager, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Group Company, deputy manager, and manager. Because of his unit's residence, he once served concurrently as member of the Standing Committee of the Tongling Municipal Party Committee and deputy secretary of the Tongling Municipal Party Committee. In February 2003, Yang Zhenchao, who had more than 20 years of experience in Anhui's largest provincial state-owned enterprise, left the enterprise and officially entered his career. He took up a leadership position in the economic department of the provincial government. He successively held important positions such as director of the Provincial Economic and Trade Commission, director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and director of the Economic Commission. After more than four years of training in the provincial government's economic department, in July 2007, Yang Zhenchao took over from the downfall of Chen Shili and began to serve as the secretary of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee on the ruling side. In January 2013, Yang Zhenchao completed the leap from a department-level official to a provincial and ministerial official in Huainan, and was promoted to deputy governor and member of the party group of Anhui Province, until he was also imprisoned this time. Before his downfall, Yang Zhenchao ranked third among the six current vice governors in Anhui. He was responsible for industry and informatization, commerce, foreign affairs, overseas Chinese affairs, supervision and management of state-owned assets, supervision and management of production safety, tourism, and Taiwan affairs. He was in charge of the Economic and Information Technology Commission, the Department of Commerce, the Foreign Affairs Office (Overseas Chinese Affairs Office), the State-owned Assets Supervision Bureau, the Tourism Bureau, the National Defense Science and Technology Office, the Taiwan Affairs Office, the Information Office, the Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and contacted the Federation of Industry and Commerce, the Federation of Trade Unions, the Federation of Overseas Chinese, the Taiwan Federation of Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Hefei Customs, Coal Mine Safety Supervision Bureau, Reserve Materials Administration Bureau, Communications Administration Bureau, Electric Power Company, Datang Group Anhui Branch, Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, Anhui China Tobacco Industry Company and telecommunications and other units in Anhui. As the deputy governor in charge of important tasks such as industry, state-owned assets, and production safety, Yang Zhenchao appears frequently in public reports. Just two days before the notification of the investigation, Yang Zhenchao, as deputy governor, attended the opening ceremony of the second Russian senior civil servant (Anhui) seminar held in Hefei on May 22. Corruption occurred frequently in state-owned enterprises under his rule, and important cadres died unexpectedly. The paper reviewed the news and found that in the main fields and regions where Yang Zhenchao worked, namely Anhui State-owned Enterprise Industrial System and Huainan City, serious corruption investigations of leading cadres and accidental deaths of important cadres occurred. Tobacco and steel systems are areas where corrupt officials are concentrated among Anhui's industrial state-owned enterprises under Yang Zhenchao's administration. In January 2013, Huang Xiaohu, former chairman of Anhui Military Industry Group Holdings Co., Ltd.(hereinafter referred to as "Anhui Military Industry"), was investigated on suspicion of serious violations of laws and disciplines. Huang Xiaohu, male, was born in January 1963. Before being transferred to Anhui Military Industry, Huang Xiaohu served as general manager of Bengbu Ciyt Xinda Industrial Company, director of Bengbu Ciyt Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Committee, director of Chuzhou Cigarette Factory, deputy director of Huangshan Cigarette General Factory, and deputy general manager of Anhui China Tobacco Industrial Company. Anhui Military Industry is a large state-owned enterprise with 10 subsidiaries with total assets of 2.6 billion yuan. In May 2014, Huang Xiaohu was tried in the Huainan City Intermediate Court on suspicion of corruption, bribery, bribery and job embezzlement, involving a total amount of more than 30 million yuan. In December of that year, the Huainan Intermediate People's Court issued a first-instance judgment on Huang Xiaohu's case. The court found Huang Xiaohu guilty of corruption, bribery, bribery, and embezzlement. He punished him for several crimes and decided to execute 19 years in prison and confiscate personal property. RMB 2.15 million yuan. In addition to Chuzhou Cigarette Factory and Bengbu Cigarette Factory, where Huang Xiaohu once worked, as many as five cadres, large and small, were dismissed at Wuhu Cigarette Factory, another important town in Anhui's tobacco industry. Two of whom had served as director of Wuhu Cigarette Factory. In July 2015, the Anhui Province Procuratorate released a message stating that under its designated jurisdiction, the Wuhu City Procuratorate filed an investigation against He Sheng (at the division level) on suspicion of accepting bribes. It was initially found that when He Sheng was the director of Wuhu Cigarette Factory and the office director of Anhui China Tobacco Company, he used his position to benefit others and accepted huge amounts of property from others. Tao Zhenmin (deputy director level), the former deputy researcher of the factory, was also investigated by the Wuhu City Procuratorate on suspicion of accepting bribes. Before He Sheng and Tao Zhenmin, Wang Longming, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Wuhu Cigarette Factory, Wang Yulan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the factory, and Ma Longyi, Director of the contract receiving workshop, had all been investigated by the organization on suspicion of serious violations of discipline and law. A more serious corruption case among senior executives of state-owned enterprises in Anhui Province, which is more serious than the Wuhu Cigarette Factory, occurred in Masteel (Group) Holdings Co., Ltd.(hereinafter referred to as "Masteel Group"). The "Masang Series of Duty Crime Prevention Projects" summarized through this series of cases were even selected into the first "Top Ten Excellent Prevention Projects" of the Procuratorate of Anhui Province and ranked first. Since December 2013, an anti-corruption storm swept through Masteel Group, and several cases and colludes broke out in a concentrated manner, including Shi Xiongliang, former deputy general manager of Masteel Group, Hui Zhigang, former deputy general manager, and Zhao Zhiqun, former assistant to the general manager. 21 people were suspected of accepting bribes one after another, and 13 people were investigated by the procuratorate for bribery crimes. After handling cases, the Anhui procuratorate found that Masang Group had serious regulatory problems in the procurement, storage of raw materials, product sales and internal project construction materials management. Yang Zhenchao inspected Tongling Nonferrous Metals. Compared with Maanshan Iron and Steel Group, Tongling Nonferrous Metals, which had experienced in it for more than 20 years, has a much deeper connection with Yang Zhenchao. As the largest provincial state-owned enterprise in Anhui, although the company has not had mass corruption cases similar to Masteel Group in recent years, the fall of its former chairman and party secretary Wei Jianghong to a building and the death of its former chairman and party secretary was also tantamount to dropping a "blockbuster" on Anhui politics in the summer of 2014. According to previous reports by The Paper News, on June 24, 2014, Wei Jianghong fell to his death at the Wusongshan Hotel in Tongling. The Tongling City Public Security Bureau released a message the next day saying that after on-site investigations, video evidence collection, interviews with relevant personnel, and comprehensive analysis of the deceased's suicide note, it was initially determined that Wei Jianghong was under heavy work pressure, long-term insomnia, and excessive mental burden, which led to his fall and suicide. On June 30, six days after falling to his death, a farewell ceremony for Wei Jianghong's body was held at the Tongling City Funeral Home. Officials attended the farewell ceremony and delivered eulogy. The main purpose of the eulogy was that Wei Jianghong had made great contributions to the development of Tongling Nonferrous Metals, and his death was a major loss to Tongling Nonferrous Metals and its employees. According to media reports, Wei Jianghong had previously applied for resignation, but was not approved by the organization. In addition to the state-owned enterprise system accused of being at odds with the mayor and having done nothing in power for more than five years, more serious corruption cases involving important officials also occurred in Huainan, an industrial town in Anhui, where Yang Zhenchao once ruled. In the anti-corruption storm that swept across Anhui after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Huainan was one of the few prefecture-level cities where the former municipal party committee secretary and mayor were both dismissed. In November 2014, Cao Yong, then Party Secretary and Director of the Anhui Province Department of Commerce, was announced by the Anhui Province Commission for Discipline Inspection to accept an organizational investigation on suspicion of serious violations of discipline. Before taking up the post of director of the Anhui Province Department of Commerce, Cao Yong worked with Yang Zhenchao from April 2008 to February 2013, serving as deputy secretary, acting mayor, and mayor of Huainan Municipal Party Committee. He worked with him in Huainan Municipal Party Committee for nearly 5 years until he was simultaneously transferred from Huainan in early 2013. Many people familiar with the matter in Huainan told The Paper that Yang and Cao had been at odds when working, and Cao Yong's very strong character, as a result, Yang Zhenchao, as the top leader of the municipal party committee, had almost done nothing in Huainan for more than five years (July 2007-February 2013) and was eager to leave. A reliable source in Huainan disclosed to The Paper reporter a case of discord between Yang and Cao. According to this person, Yang Zhenchao once arranged for a cadre from the Huainan City Government Office to falsely list entertainment expenses at the reception hotel designated by the local municipal party committee and municipal government to cover daily consumption expenses. Cao Yong refused to sign the relevant bills when reimbursing them. After Cao Yong's downfall, under continuous reports from his relatives, the above-mentioned cadres from the Huainan City Government Office were once taken away by relevant departments to assist in the investigation, and have now regained their freedom. The discord between Yang and Cao attracted the attention of relevant departments in Anhui Province. In February 2013, Huainan underwent a major change that is relatively rare in China's officialdom: Yang Zhenchao, as secretary of the municipal party committee, and Cao Yong, as mayor, were transferred at the same time. According to the above-mentioned Huainan person familiar with the matter, at the city's leading cadre meeting that announced the personnel adjustment, Cao Yong was very dissatisfied because he failed to successfully take over as secretary of the municipal party committee, and his behavior was very inappropriate in front of relevant provincial party committee leaders and Yang Zhenchao. After this adjustment, Yang Zhenchao was promoted to vice governor of Anhui Province, Cao Yongping was transferred to director of the Anhui Province Department of Commerce, and Fang Xiping, the former director of the Anhui Province Department of Commerce, succeeded Yang Zhenchao as secretary of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee. To some extent, Fang Xiping "took away" Cao Yong's dream of being secretary of Huainan Municipal Party Committee. However, as Yang Zhenchao's successor (February 2013-August 2014), Fang Xiping was also under organizational investigation for serious disciplinary violations in August 2014. Fang Xiping, male, born in October 1958, graduated from Fudan University with a master's degree in political economics. He served as secretary of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee from February 2013 to August 2014. Fang Xiping reviewed public reports and found that Fang Xiping was only the latest of four consecutive former secretaries of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee to be dismissed in the nearly 20 years since August 1996. More than ten years ago, in October 2005, the Standing Committee of the 10th People's Congress of Anhui Province decided to revoke Chen Weixi's post as deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress. Previously, Chen Weixi's qualifications as a representative of the Provincial People's Congress were removed by the 23rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress of Huainan City. Chen Weixi, male, Han nationality, from Guzhen, Anhui Province, with a university degree. Born in October 1947, started working in March 1970, joined the Party in March 1980, and served as Secretary of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee from August 1996 to April 2003. Chen Weixi According to Caijing magazine, Chen Weixi's dismissal originated from an illegal fund-raising incident that occurred when he was a former commissioner of the Suxian District Administrative Office in Anhui Province. The incident resulted in Chen Weixi being demoted from deputy provincial leader to department-level inspector. If Chen Weixi's dismissal and downgrade were acceptable, the outcome of his successor Chen Shili was much more serious. Chen Shili Chen Shili, male, from Ma 'anshan, Anhui Province, joined the Communist Party of China in October 1972 and started working in December 1968. He holds an in-service postgraduate degree from the Central Party School. He served as Secretary of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee from April 2003 to July 2007. In March 2007, the Discipline Inspection Department of Anhui Province verified Chen Shili's problems based on a letter from the people. In August of the same year, Chen was placed under "double regulations." In January 2008, the Anhui Province Procuratorate appointed the Fuyang City Procuratorate to file an investigation into Chen Shili's suspected crime. In June of the same year, Chen was arrested. In September 2008, Chen Shili's suspected bribery case was heard in the Fuyang City Intermediate Court. In December of the same year, the Fuyang Intermediate People's Court issued a first-instance judgment on Chen Shili's bribery case and sentenced him to death with a two-year suspension, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of all personal property; his illegal income was recovered in accordance with the law. In addition to Yang Zhenchao, Fang Xiping, Cao Yong and other former municipal party committee secretaries and mayors, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, other leading cadres at various levels in important fields have also been investigated and dismissed in Huainan. Among them are: Cai Yufu, former director of the Huainan City Key Engineering Construction Bureau, Jiang Changsheng, former secretary of the Panji District Committee, Pan Qizhi, former district mayor, and Dong Minghui, former deputy director of the District People's Congress Standing Committee. In addition, in addition to the long-term and continuous earthquake in official circles represented by four consecutive former municipal party committee secretaries who were investigated, Huainan, as a resource-based city, is also under great pressure in terms of economic transformation and development. Official public reports show that in 2014, Huainan's GDP was 78 billion yuan, a decrease of 3.94 billion yuan from 2013. GDP showed a rare negative growth of 0.5%, making it the only city with negative growth among the 16 prefecture-level cities in Anhui Province. In 2015, Huainan achieved a GDP of 77.06 billion yuan, an increase of 2.8%. Although the economy has improved, its growth rate still ranks first among the 16 cities in the province.On May 24, 2016 (April 18, 2016 in the lunar calendar), Yang Zhenchao, Vice Governor of Anhui Province, was investigated and dismissed as four consecutive secretaries of Huainan. Yang Zhenchao follows Chen Weixi, Chen Shili and Fang Xiping, Yang Zhenchao, who is currently the vice governor and member of the party group of Anhui Province, has become the fourth former secretary of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee of Anhui Province to be dismissed in nearly 20 years since August 1996. The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Ministry of Supervision announced on May 24, 2016 that Yang Zhenchao, Vice Governor of Anhui Province, was suspected of serious violations of discipline and was currently under investigation. Yang Zhenchao's downfall was less than a month after the end of the Central Fifth Inspection Team's "look back" inspection in Anhui. At the end of February this year, the Central Inspection Team launched the first "look back" of the central inspection tour after the 18th CPC National Congress in Liaoning, Anhui, Shandong, and Hunan provinces. The work content included "re-discovering" problems that had not been discovered and "re-understanding" problems that had not yet been deeply understood. According to the previously announced time, the "review" of the above four provinces ended at the end of April. Although the feedback on "looking back" has not yet been released, officials at or above the provincial and ministerial levels have been dismissed in all four provinces except Hunan. After Su Hongzhang, former member of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee and former secretary of the Political and Legal Commission, was dismissed, the organ of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the "China Discipline Inspection and Supervision News" once issued an article stating that "the inspection 'looks back' is not 'looks back and smiles' but 'shoots back the horse.' This shot hit the key points and blood was seen in the gun." According to an informed source from Anhui political circles told the Paper reporter that on the afternoon of May 23, after attending the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, Yang Zhenchao and his secretary were taken away together by investigators of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The main issue may involve the period in charge of the province's state-owned enterprise system and the appointment of Huainan Municipal Party Committee Secretary. In the state-owned enterprise system, Anhui has previously lost corporate executives in many fields such as military industry, tobacco, and steel. In Huainan, in addition to his predecessors Chen Weixi, Chen Shili and his successor Fang Xiping, who have been dismissed, Cao Yong, the former mayor of Huainan, who once worked with Yang Zhenchao, Jiang Changsheng, the former secretary of the Huainan Panji District Committee, and Pan Qizhi, the former mayor of Panji District, have also been investigated and punished in the anti-corruption storm since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. According to many people familiar with the matter in Huainan, Yang Zhenchao and Cao Yong (right) have never been on good terms. However, according to many people familiar with the matter in Huainan, Yang Zhenchao and Cao Yong have never been on good terms. After Cao Yong was investigated and punished in November 2014, his relatives even lived in Beijing and reported Yang Zhenchao's disciplinary violations to relevant departments for a long time. It was also from then on that there were rumors in Anhui political circles that Yang Zhenchao might be dismissed. Yang Zhenchao is also the "third tiger" to fall from Anhui since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Previously, Ni Fake, former vice governor of Anhui Province, and Han Xiancong, former vice chairman of the CPPCC of Anhui Province, had accepted organizational investigations in June 2013 and July 2014 respectively. Yang Zhenchao, 56 (1960.8), a technical local official who has been deeply involved in Anhui's largest state-owned enterprise for more than 20 years, was transferred to the post of deputy governor and member of the Party Leadership Group of the Anhui Province Government in January 2013. Previously, he had served in Anhui's non-ferrous metals industry and state-owned enterprise system for a long time. From July 2007 to February 2013, he was in charge of Huainan, an important industrial town in Anhui, as secretary of the municipal party committee. According to the official website of the Anhui Province, Yang Zhenchao, male, Han nationality, born in August 1960, from Jinzhai, Anhui Province, started working in January 1977 and joined the Communist Party of China in December 1983. He has an in-service postgraduate degree, a doctorate in management, a senior engineer and a senior economist. Yang Zhenchao is a technical local official and has never left Anhui in his career. After graduating from Shenyang Gold College in July 1982, Yang Zhenchao entered Tongling Nonferrous Metals (Group) Company (hereinafter referred to as "Tongling Nonferrous Metals"), the provincial state-owned enterprise with the largest output value in Anhui, and worked for more than 20 years. In Tongling Nonferrous Metals, Yang Zhenchao started from grassroots positions such as squad leader, technician, deputy district mayor, district mayor, section chief, etc., and was promoted to leadership positions such as deputy mine manager, mine manager, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Group Company, deputy manager, and manager. Because of his unit's residence, he once served concurrently as member of the Standing Committee of the Tongling Municipal Party Committee and deputy secretary of the Tongling Municipal Party Committee. In February 2003, Yang Zhenchao, who had more than 20 years of experience in Anhui's largest provincial state-owned enterprise, left the enterprise and officially entered his career. He took up a leadership position in the economic department of the provincial government. He successively held important positions such as director of the Provincial Economic and Trade Commission, director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and director of the Economic Commission. After more than four years of training in the provincial government's economic department, in July 2007, Yang Zhenchao took over from the downfall of Chen Shili and began to serve as the secretary of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee on the ruling side. In January 2013, Yang Zhenchao completed the leap from a department-level official to a provincial and ministerial official in Huainan, and was promoted to deputy governor and member of the party group of Anhui Province, until he was also imprisoned this time. Before his downfall, Yang Zhenchao ranked third among the six current vice governors in Anhui. He was responsible for industry and informatization, commerce, foreign affairs, overseas Chinese affairs, supervision and management of state-owned assets, supervision and management of production safety, tourism, and Taiwan affairs. He was in charge of the Economic and Information Technology Commission, the Department of Commerce, the Foreign Affairs Office (Overseas Chinese Affairs Office), the State-owned Assets Supervision Bureau, the Tourism Bureau, the National Defense Science and Technology Office, the Taiwan Affairs Office, the Information Office, the Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and contacted the Federation of Industry and Commerce, the Federation of Trade Unions, the Federation of Overseas Chinese, the Taiwan Federation of Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Hefei Customs, Coal Mine Safety Supervision Bureau, Reserve Materials Administration Bureau, Communications Administration Bureau, Electric Power Company, Datang Group Anhui Branch, Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, Anhui China Tobacco Industry Company and telecommunications and other units in Anhui. As the deputy governor in charge of important tasks such as industry, state-owned assets, and production safety, Yang Zhenchao appears frequently in public reports. Just two days before the notification of the investigation, Yang Zhenchao, as deputy governor, attended the opening ceremony of the second Russian senior civil servant (Anhui) seminar held in Hefei on May 22. Corruption occurred frequently in state-owned enterprises under his rule, and important cadres died unexpectedly. The paper reviewed the news and found that in the main fields and regions where Yang Zhenchao worked, namely Anhui State-owned Enterprise Industrial System and Huainan City, serious corruption investigations of leading cadres and accidental deaths of important cadres occurred. Tobacco and steel systems are areas where corrupt officials are concentrated among Anhui's industrial state-owned enterprises under Yang Zhenchao's administration. In January 2013, Huang Xiaohu, former chairman of Anhui Military Industry Group Holdings Co., Ltd.(hereinafter referred to as "Anhui Military Industry"), was investigated on suspicion of serious violations of laws and disciplines. Huang Xiaohu, male, was born in January 1963. Before being transferred to Anhui Military Industry, Huang Xiaohu served as general manager of Bengbu Ciyt Xinda Industrial Company, director of Bengbu Ciyt Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Committee, director of Chuzhou Cigarette Factory, deputy director of Huangshan Cigarette General Factory, and deputy general manager of Anhui China Tobacco Industrial Company. Anhui Military Industry is a large state-owned enterprise with 10 subsidiaries with total assets of 2.6 billion yuan. In May 2014, Huang Xiaohu was tried in the Huainan City Intermediate Court on suspicion of corruption, bribery, bribery and job embezzlement, involving a total amount of more than 30 million yuan. In December of that year, the Huainan Intermediate People's Court issued a first-instance judgment on Huang Xiaohu's case. The court found Huang Xiaohu guilty of corruption, bribery, bribery, and embezzlement. He punished him for several crimes and decided to execute 19 years in prison and confiscate personal property. RMB 2.15 million yuan. In addition to Chuzhou Cigarette Factory and Bengbu Cigarette Factory, where Huang Xiaohu once worked, as many as five cadres, large and small, were dismissed at Wuhu Cigarette Factory, another important town in Anhui's tobacco industry. Two of whom had served as director of Wuhu Cigarette Factory. In July 2015, the Anhui Province Procuratorate released a message stating that under its designated jurisdiction, the Wuhu City Procuratorate filed an investigation against He Sheng (at the division level) on suspicion of accepting bribes. It was initially found that when He Sheng was the director of Wuhu Cigarette Factory and the office director of Anhui China Tobacco Company, he used his position to benefit others and accepted huge amounts of property from others. Tao Zhenmin (deputy director level), the former deputy researcher of the factory, was also investigated by the Wuhu City Procuratorate on suspicion of accepting bribes. Before He Sheng and Tao Zhenmin, Wang Longming, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Wuhu Cigarette Factory, Wang Yulan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the factory, and Ma Longyi, Director of the contract receiving workshop, had all been investigated by the organization on suspicion of serious violations of discipline and law. A more serious corruption case among senior executives of state-owned enterprises in Anhui Province, which is more serious than the Wuhu Cigarette Factory, occurred in Masteel (Group) Holdings Co., Ltd.(hereinafter referred to as "Masteel Group"). The "Masang Series of Duty Crime Prevention Projects" summarized through this series of cases were even selected into the first "Top Ten Excellent Prevention Projects" of the Procuratorate of Anhui Province and ranked first. Since December 2013, an anti-corruption storm swept through Masteel Group, and several cases and colludes broke out in a concentrated manner, including Shi Xiongliang, former deputy general manager of Masteel Group, Hui Zhigang, former deputy general manager, and Zhao Zhiqun, former assistant to the general manager. 21 people were suspected of accepting bribes one after another, and 13 people were investigated by the procuratorate for bribery crimes. After handling cases, the Anhui procuratorate found that Masang Group had serious regulatory problems in the procurement, storage of raw materials, product sales and internal project construction materials management. Yang Zhenchao inspected Tongling Nonferrous Metals. Compared with Maanshan Iron and Steel Group, Tongling Nonferrous Metals, which had experienced in it for more than 20 years, has a much deeper connection with Yang Zhenchao. As the largest provincial state-owned enterprise in Anhui, although the company has not had mass corruption cases similar to Masteel Group in recent years, the fall of its former chairman and party secretary Wei Jianghong to a building and the death of its former chairman and party secretary was also tantamount to dropping a "blockbuster" on Anhui politics in the summer of 2014. According to previous reports by The Paper News, on June 24, 2014, Wei Jianghong fell to his death at the Wusongshan Hotel in Tongling. The Tongling City Public Security Bureau released a message the next day saying that after on-site investigations, video evidence collection, interviews with relevant personnel, and comprehensive analysis of the deceased's suicide note, it was initially determined that Wei Jianghong was under heavy work pressure, long-term insomnia, and excessive mental burden, which led to his fall and suicide. On June 30, six days after falling to his death, a farewell ceremony for Wei Jianghong's body was held at the Tongling City Funeral Home. Officials attended the farewell ceremony and delivered eulogy. The main purpose of the eulogy was that Wei Jianghong had made great contributions to the development of Tongling Nonferrous Metals, and his death was a major loss to Tongling Nonferrous Metals and its employees. According to media reports, Wei Jianghong had previously applied for resignation, but was not approved by the organization. In addition to the state-owned enterprise system accused of being at odds with the mayor and having done nothing in power for more than five years, more serious corruption cases involving important officials also occurred in Huainan, an industrial town in Anhui, where Yang Zhenchao once ruled. In the anti-corruption storm that swept across Anhui after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Huainan was one of the few prefecture-level cities where the former municipal party committee secretary and mayor were both dismissed. In November 2014, Cao Yong, then Party Secretary and Director of the Anhui Province Department of Commerce, was announced by the Anhui Province Commission for Discipline Inspection to accept an organizational investigation on suspicion of serious violations of discipline. Before taking up the post of director of the Anhui Province Department of Commerce, Cao Yong worked with Yang Zhenchao from April 2008 to February 2013, serving as deputy secretary, acting mayor, and mayor of Huainan Municipal Party Committee. He worked with him in Huainan Municipal Party Committee for nearly 5 years until he was simultaneously transferred from Huainan in early 2013. Many people familiar with the matter in Huainan told The Paper that Yang and Cao had been at odds when working, and Cao Yong's very strong character, as a result, Yang Zhenchao, as the top leader of the municipal party committee, had almost done nothing in Huainan for more than five years (July 2007-February 2013) and was eager to leave. A reliable source in Huainan disclosed to The Paper reporter a case of discord between Yang and Cao. According to this person, Yang Zhenchao once arranged for a cadre from the Huainan City Government Office to falsely list entertainment expenses at the reception hotel designated by the local municipal party committee and municipal government to cover daily consumption expenses. Cao Yong refused to sign the relevant bills when reimbursing them. After Cao Yong's downfall, under continuous reports from his relatives, the above-mentioned cadres from the Huainan City Government Office were once taken away by relevant departments to assist in the investigation, and have now regained their freedom. The discord between Yang and Cao attracted the attention of relevant departments in Anhui Province. In February 2013, Huainan underwent a major change that is relatively rare in China's officialdom: Yang Zhenchao, as secretary of the municipal party committee, and Cao Yong, as mayor, were transferred at the same time. According to the above-mentioned Huainan person familiar with the matter, at the city's leading cadre meeting that announced the personnel adjustment, Cao Yong was very dissatisfied because he failed to successfully take over as secretary of the municipal party committee, and his behavior was very inappropriate in front of relevant provincial party committee leaders and Yang Zhenchao. After this adjustment, Yang Zhenchao was promoted to vice governor of Anhui Province, Cao Yongping was transferred to director of the Anhui Province Department of Commerce, and Fang Xiping, the former director of the Anhui Province Department of Commerce, succeeded Yang Zhenchao as secretary of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee. To some extent, Fang Xiping "took away" Cao Yong's dream of being secretary of Huainan Municipal Party Committee. However, as Yang Zhenchao's successor (February 2013-August 2014), Fang Xiping was also under organizational investigation for serious disciplinary violations in August 2014. Fang Xiping, male, born in October 1958, graduated from Fudan University with a master's degree in political economics. He served as secretary of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee from February 2013 to August 2014. Fang Xiping reviewed public reports and found that Fang Xiping was only the latest of four consecutive former secretaries of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee to be dismissed in the nearly 20 years since August 1996. More than ten years ago, in October 2005, the Standing Committee of the 10th People's Congress of Anhui Province decided to revoke Chen Weixi's post as deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress. Previously, Chen Weixi's qualifications as a representative of the Provincial People's Congress were removed by the 23rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress of Huainan City. Chen Weixi, male, Han nationality, from Guzhen, Anhui Province, with a university degree. Born in October 1947, started working in March 1970, joined the Party in March 1980, and served as Secretary of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee from August 1996 to April 2003. Chen Weixi According to Caijing magazine, Chen Weixi's dismissal originated from an illegal fund-raising incident that occurred when he was a former commissioner of the Suxian District Administrative Office in Anhui Province. The incident resulted in Chen Weixi being demoted from deputy provincial leader to department-level inspector. If Chen Weixi's dismissal and downgrade were acceptable, the outcome of his successor Chen Shili was much more serious. Chen Shili Chen Shili, male, from Ma 'anshan, Anhui Province, joined the Communist Party of China in October 1972 and started working in December 1968. He holds an in-service postgraduate degree from the Central Party School. He served as Secretary of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee from April 2003 to July 2007. In March 2007, the Discipline Inspection Department of Anhui Province verified Chen Shili's problems based on a letter from the people. In August of the same year, Chen was placed under "double regulations." In January 2008, the Anhui Province Procuratorate appointed the Fuyang City Procuratorate to file an investigation into Chen Shili's suspected crime. In June of the same year, Chen was arrested. In September 2008, Chen Shili's suspected bribery case was heard in the Fuyang City Intermediate Court. In December of the same year, the Fuyang Intermediate People's Court issued a first-instance judgment on Chen Shili's bribery case and sentenced him to death with a two-year suspension, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of all personal property; his illegal income was recovered in accordance with the law. In addition to Yang Zhenchao, Fang Xiping, Cao Yong and other former municipal party committee secretaries and mayors, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, other leading cadres at various levels in important fields have also been investigated and dismissed in Huainan. Among them are: Cai Yufu, former director of the Huainan City Key Engineering Construction Bureau, Jiang Changsheng, former secretary of the Panji District Committee, Pan Qizhi, former district mayor, and Dong Minghui, former deputy director of the District People's Congress Standing Committee. In addition, in addition to the long-term and continuous earthquake in official circles represented by four consecutive former municipal party committee secretaries who were investigated, Huainan, as a resource-based city, is also under great pressure in terms of economic transformation and development. Official public reports show that in 2014, Huainan's GDP was 78 billion yuan, a decrease of 3.94 billion yuan from 2013. GDP showed a rare negative growth of 0.5%, making it the only city with negative growth among the 16 prefecture-level cities in Anhui Province. In 2015, Huainan achieved a GDP of 77.06 billion yuan, an increase of 2.8%. Although the economy has improved, its growth rate still ranks first among the 16 cities in the province.