On this day, 73 years ago, on February 1, 1952 (January 6, 1952 in the lunar calendar), Beijing public trial major corruption criminals Song Degui and Xue Kunshan were sentenced to death. Corner of the venue for the public trial of Song Degui, a major corruption offender in Beijing. On February 1, 1952, a public trial conference was held in Beijing City to publicly try seven major corruption offenders. Song Degui, former director of the Administrative Department of the Ministry of Public Security, and Xue Kunshan, former deputy director of the Business Department of China Livestock Company, were sentenced to death for serious corruption (Song embezzled more than 640 million yuan and Xue obtained more than 2.3 billion yuan in illegal income) and refusing to confess.