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Chen Liangyu (Simplified Chinese: 陈良宇; Traditional Chinese: 陳良宇; Pinyin: Chén Liángyǔ)；Romanization of Wu Chinese:Zen Lianyu (born October 1946) is a politician of the People's Republic of China from the ruling Communist Party, and the disgraced CPC Shanghai Committee Secretary, or party chief. He was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Known to be a prominent member of the Shanghai clique, and a close ally of former president Jiang Zemin and a formidable rival to the Hu Jintao administration, Chen was dismissed in September 2006 for alleged corruption charges. Image File history File links Chen_Liangyu. ... Image File history File links Chen_Liangyu. ... Personal names in Chinese culture follow a number of conventions different from those of personal names in Western culture. ... A Chinese surname, family name (Chinese: 姓; Hanyu Pinyin: or clan name 氏; shì), is one of the hundreds or thousands of family names that have been historically used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic groups in mainland China, Taiwan, and among ethnic Chinese in overseas Chinese communities. ... Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiǎnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Pinyin is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin, where pin means spell and yin means sound. The most common variant of pinyin in use is called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: , Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: HànyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n), also known as scheme... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Communist Party of China (CPC) (official name) also known as Chinese Communist Party (CCP) (Simplified Chinese: 中国共产党; Traditional Chinese: 中國共産黨; Pinyin: Zhōngguó GòngchÇŽndÇŽng) is the ruling political party of the Peoples Republic of China. ... The Politics of Shanghai is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in the mainland of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... Ningbo (Simplified Chinese: 宁波; Traditional Chinese: 寧波; pinyin: Níngbō; Wade-Giles: Ning-po; literally Tranquil Waves) is a seaport sub-provincial city with a population of 800,000 in northeastern Zhejiang province, Peoples Republic of China. ... Zhejiang (Chinese: 浙江; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Che-chiang; Postal System Pinyin: Chehkiang or Chekiang) is an eastern coastal province of the Peoples Republic of China. ... The Shanghai clique is an informal name for officials in Chinese Communist Party especially central government of the Peoples Republic of China or CCP centre who rose to prominence in the Shanghai city administration under Jiang Zemin or used to be subordinates of Jiang. ... Jiāng Zémín (Traditional Chinese: 江澤民, Simplified Chinese: 江泽民, Hanyu Pinyin: Jiāng Zémín, Wade-Giles: Chiang Tse-min, Cantonese (Jyutping): gong1 zaak6 man4) (born August 17, 1926) was the core of the third generation of Communist Party of China leaders, serving as General Secretary of the Communist... Hu Jintao (Simplified Chinese: , Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Hú Jǐntāo; born December 21, 1942) is the current Paramount Leader of the Peoples Republic of China, holding the titles of President of the Peoples Republic of China, Chairman of the Central Military Commission and General Secretary of the...

Rise to power

He graduated from the (PLA)People's Liberation Army Institute of Logistics Engineering, where he had majored in architecture. He had two years of experience working in the military between 1968-1970. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1980. He worked as one of the cadres at the Pengpu Machinery Factory for the early 1980's, earning his way up to become the CPC Secretary for Shanghai's Electronic Appliances Bureau. He was on sabbatical at Birmingham University on public administration while holding the position of District Governor for Huangpu District in Shanghai. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Parthenon on top of the Acropolis, Athens, Greece Architecture (from Latin, architectura and ultimately from Greek, αρχιτεκτων, a master builder, from αρχι- chief, leader and τεκτων, builder, carpenter) is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. ... The Communist Party of China (CPC) (official name) also known as Chinese Communist Party (CCP) (Simplified Chinese: 中国共产党; Traditional Chinese: 中國共産黨; Pinyin: Zhōngguó GòngchÇŽndÇŽng) is the ruling political party of the Peoples Republic of China. ... A sabbatical year is a prolonged hiatus, typically one year, in the career of an otherwise successful individual taken in order to fulfill some dream, e. ... The University of Birmingham is the oldest of three universities in the English city of Birmingham. ... Huangpu (黄浦), or sometimes also called New Huangpu, is one of Shanghais 18 districts. ...

Chen was promoted to be Deputy Mayor of Shanghai in 1996, concurrently holding the CPC Vice-Secretary position. As then President Jiang Zemin made his political manouevers before the 16th Party Congress in 2002 to strengthen the Shanghai power base with his loyalties, Chen became the benificiary, replacing then Mayor Xu Kuangdi, becoming Mayor of Shanghai in late 2002, and Secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee in February 2003. He was therefore granted membership in the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee. As an ally of former President Jiang Zemin, Chen was to keep Jiang's Shanghai base of power while Hu Jintao was given all official positions of power. Chen is believed to be linked to businessman Zhou Zhengyi in the Shanghai Real Estate scandals, where residents were forced to relocate for new housing developments where old style apartments were being demolished to build modern-style condominiums. The delegates to the Sixteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China elected a 356-member new Party Central Committee, as well as a 121-member Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI). ... Xu Kuangdi (b. ... The Politics of Shanghai is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in the mainland of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... The Politburo of the Communist Party of China ( Chinese: 中国共产党中央政治局 pinyin: Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Zhōngyāng Zhèngzhìjú) is a group of 19 to 25 people who oversee the Communist Party... The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (Chinese: 中国共产党中央委员会 pinyin: Zhōngguó GòngchÇŽndÇŽng Zhōngyāng WÄ›iyuánhuì) is the highest authority within the Communist Party of China between Party Congresses. ... Jiāng Zémín (Traditional Chinese: 江澤民, Simplified Chinese: 江泽民, Hanyu Pinyin: Jiāng Zémín, Wade-Giles: Chiang Tse-min, Cantonese (Jyutping): gong1 zaak6 man4) (born August 17, 1926) was the core of the third generation of Communist Party of China leaders, serving as General Secretary of the Communist... Zhou Zhengyi (Chinese: 周正毅) (born 1961) is a prominent businessman based in Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China. ... A condominium is a form of housing tenure. ...

Along with Mayor Han Zheng, Chen continued the CPC's path on reform, and during his leadership Shanghai was selected as the host city for Expo 2010. Chen is officially credited with dramatically increasing the size and efficiency of Shanghai's public transportation network. Shanghai's increasing real estate prices has plagued the city since 2002, and the real estate network has a known history of being monopolized. The government has attempted to assert control, but because of the inevitable link between the government and private businesses, many underhand deals were cut, and Chen was implicated in many of these affairs. Han Zheng (韩正) (born April 1954) is the current mayor of Shanghai. ... Expo 2010 is a scheduled worlds fair in the grand tradition of international fairs and expositions. ... Real estate is a legal term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings. ...

His image in the city during his tenure as Mayor was fairly divisive. Opponents of Chen have painted him as corrupt and with a short temper, being despotic during Municipal Committee meetings which he chaired. They also alledge the Chen has kept various mistresses in mansions. ^[1] Supporters of Chen credit him with openness, and see him as a progressive leader crucial to Shanghai's development on the international scene. They assert that Chen's corruption in Shanghai is a mere fraction of what provincial-level officials are used to in China.

Dismissal

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On September 25, 2006 he was fired as party secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the CPC and suspended from his posts of member of the Chinese Politburo and member of the CPC Central Committee for his alleged involvement in a social security fund scandal, where money was siphoned off from Shanghai's social security fund, which manages more than 10 billion yuan (US$1.25 billion) in assets. A hundred-strong team from Beijing has been sent to Shanghai to investigate the matter. Other corruption charges were: Image File history File links Current_event_marker. ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Politburo of the Communist Party of China ( Chinese: 中国共产党中央政治局 pinyin: Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Zhōngyāng Zhèngzhìjú) is a group of 19 to 25 people who oversee the Communist Party... The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (Chinese: 中国共产党中央委员会 pinyin: Zhōngguó GòngchÇŽndÇŽng Zhōngyāng WÄ›iyuánhuì) is the highest authority within the Communist Party of China between Party Congresses. ... It has been suggested that Chinese yuan be merged into this article or section. ...

• "helping further the economic interests of illegal business people"
• "protecting staff who severely violated laws and discipline"
• "furthering the interests of family members by taking advantage of his official posts"

As of October, 2006, invesigation on Chen and his associates are still on going and will likely to continue to 2007, and the majority portion of the findings was kept a secret and only very limited amount of the evidence gathered so far was allowed to be publicized, which included: Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• Out of the illegal gains from the financial scandals, a total of more than 300 million Chinese dollars, or approximately US$40 million went to Chen's personal secret / private bank accounts.
• Chen Liangyu kept at least 11 mistresses, supported by the money he embezzled.
• Chen Liangyu was reported over 500 times for his illegal activities during his reign but authorities turned to look the other way whenever he was reported.
• Chen Liangyu openly claimed at the party meetings for multiple times that keeping mistresses was perfectly fine, as long as those who had mistresses could improve the local economy, because majority of the ordinary citizens would not complain if they were the beneficiaries of the robust economy.
• Most of the hard evidence was provided by his feuding mistresses who felt they were not treated equally or not well enough, and when Chen turned down their demands, they became informants.
• Chen Liangyu and his associates participated in orgies that not only included their mistresses, but also prostitutes. Unbeknown to Chen, their orgies were secretly video taped by some of the disgruntled associate who eventually feuded with Chen Liangyu over the division of the embezzled money. When these disgruntled associates were to be sacrificed by Chen Liangyu in order to save other corrupted cadres, they turned to informants like some of Chen's mistresses. Despite their prospect extremely light sentencing, they were not satisfied because they felt that they should not be prosecuted anyway while other corrupted cadres was unscrathed when committing the same crimes.

Following Chen's dismissal, Han Zheng, the current Mayor of Shanghai, has become acting secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the CPC, according to a decision of the CPC Central Committee.^[2] ISO 4217 Code CNY User(s) Mainland of the Peoples Republic of China Inflation rate 1. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ... Han Zheng (韩正) (born April 1954) is the current mayor of Shanghai. ... The Mayor of Shanghai (上海市长) is the highest ranking official in the Peoples Government of Shanghai. ...

Chen was a protégé of former President Jiang Zemin and a senior member of the Shanghai faction. Chen clashed with Premier Wen Jiabao knowingly at a meeting of the Central Committee in Beijing. He was deemed a serious political rival to President Hu Jintao. Chen is the highest level Chinese official to be fired since former Beijing party secretary Chen Xitong (no relation) in 1995, and who was sentenced to 16 years in prison but released on medical parole in 2006 after serving eight years of his sentence. The two-month-old scandal "has already led to the removal and detention for questioning of the city's labor chief, a district governor and several prominent businessmen. The ranks of those detained in the Shanghai probe include executives in Shanghai's biggest industrial conglomerate as well as well-connected city officials."^{[3] [4]} Jiāng Zémín (Traditional Chinese: 江澤民, Simplified Chinese: 江泽民, Hanyu Pinyin: Jiāng Zémín, Wade-Giles: Chiang Tse-min, Cantonese (Jyutping): gong1 zaak6 man4) (born August 17, 1926) was the core of the third generation of Communist Party of China leaders, serving as General Secretary of the Communist... The Shanghai clique is an informal name for officials in Chinese Communist Party especially central government of the Peoples Republic of China or CCP centre who rose to prominence in the Shanghai city administration under Jiang Zemin or used to be subordinates of Jiang. ... The Premier ( Chinese: 总理 pinyin: zŏnglĭ), sometimes referred to as the Prime Minister, is the Chairman of the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China and head of Central Peoples Government. ... Wen Jiabao (Simplified Chinese: 温家宝; Traditional Chinese: 溫家寶; Pinyin: WÄ“n JiābÇŽo; Wade-Giles: Wen Chia-pao) (born September 1942) is the Premier of the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China. ... The President of the Peoples Republic of China (Simplified Chinese: 中华人民共和国主席; Pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó ZhÇ”xí, or abbreviated Guójiā ZhÇ”xí 国家主席) is the head of state of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Hu Jintao (Simplified Chinese: , Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Hú Jǐntāo; born December 21, 1942) is the current Paramount Leader of the Peoples Republic of China, holding the titles of President of the Peoples Republic of China, Chairman of the Central Military Commission and General Secretary of the... Chen Xitong (陈希同) (born June 1930) was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China and the Mayor of Beijing until he was removed from office on charges of corruption in 1995. ...

The BBC reports that "There has been a continuing power struggle between Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao ... Mr Chen's dismissal is being widely interpreted as Hu Jintao strengthening his position both within the party and the country as a whole^[5]." The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. ... Jiāng Zémín (Traditional Chinese: 江澤民, Simplified Chinese: 江泽民, Hanyu Pinyin: Jiāng Zémín, Wade-Giles: Chiang Tse-min, Cantonese (Jyutping): gong1 zaak6 man4) (born August 17, 1926) was the core of the third generation of Communist Party of China leaders, serving as General Secretary of the Communist... Hu Jintao (Simplified Chinese: , Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Hú Jǐntāo; born December 21, 1942) is the current Paramount Leader of the Peoples Republic of China, holding the titles of President of the Peoples Republic of China, Chairman of the Central Military Commission and General Secretary of the...

Career timeline

• 1963.08 - 1968.08 People's Liberation Army (PLA) Institute of Logistics Engineering
• 1968.08 - 1970.09 People's Liberation Army 6716 Squadron
• 1970.09 - 1983.03 Shanghai Pengpu Machinery Factory worker, estimator, capital construction branch vice-section chief (1979.02 - 1980.01 Sabbatical: Tongji University engineering/architecture section)
• 1983.03 - 1984.03 Shanghai Pengpu machine factory Deputy Plant Manager, Shanghai Metallurgy Mining Machinery Company party committee assistant deputy Secretary
• 1984.03 - 1985.01 Shanghai Electric Appliance Company party committee Secretary
• 1985.01 - 1987.02 Shanghai Municipal Party Committee (Old cadre bureau) Assistant Commissioner, bureau chief
• 1987.02 - 1992.10 Shanghai Huangpu district party committee Assistant Deputy Secretary, District Magistrate ( 1992.01 - 1992.09 Sabbatical: Birmingham University community policy institute)
• 1992.10 - 1992.12 Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Assistant Deputy Secretary-General
• 1992.12 - 1996.10 Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Assistant Deputy Secretary
• 1996.10 - 2001.12 Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Assistant Deputy Secretary, Deputy Mayor
• 2001.12 - 2002.02 Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Assistant Deputy Secretary, Acting Mayor
• 2002.02 - 2002.10 Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Assistant Deputy Secretary, Mayor
• 2002.10 - 2002.11 Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Secretary, Mayor
• 2002.11 - 2003.02. Central Political Bureau committee member, Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Secretary, Mayor
• 2003.02 - 2006.09 Central Political Bureau committee member, Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Secretary
• 2006.09.25 - Removal from all positions pending investigation on corruption and abuse of power charges

Source : People.com.cn^[6] Tongji University (同济大学) is one of the leading universities directly under the State Ministry of Education in China. ...

Sources and notes

1. ^ Times Online reports on Shanghai's property affairs
2. ^ Xinhua News Agency article Shanghai party chief sacked for social security fund scandal published September 25, 2006
3. ^ ABC News article Top Shanghai Leader Removed From Office published September 25, 2006
4. ^ Wall Street Journal article Shanghai's Top Leader Is Dismissed, Linked to Pension Probe published September 25, 2006
5. ^ Top China leader fired for graft. BBC (September 25, 2006). Retrieved on 2006-09-27.
6. ^ Comrade Chen Lianyu's biography. People.com.cn. Retrieved on 2006-09-27.

• News about Chen Liangyu on China Digital Times
• SINA: Chen Liangyu Sacked (Chinese)
• Epoch Times says people happy about Chen dismissal, but nothing is done about real corruption

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See also

• Qin Yu
• Zhang Rongkun
• Zhu Junyi