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 Shanghai party chief sacked for graft   (Xinhua)  Updated: 2006-09-25 14:49  
Chen Liangyu, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of Communist 
Party of China (CPC), has been sacked for his involvement in a social security 
fund scandal. 
  
 
 
 
   Chen Liangyu holds a 
 news conference in Shanghai in this February 27, 2002 file photo. Chen 
 has been sacked for his involvement in a social security fund 
 scandal. [Reuters] |   Chen was also suspended 
from the posts of member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee 
and member of the CPC Central Committee. 
  Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng has 
been appointed the acting secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the 
CPC by the CPC Central Committee. 
  The Political Bureau of the CPC 
Central Committee convened a meeting on Sunday and discussed a preliminary 
investigation report on Chen's problems, which was tabled by the the CPC Central 
Commission for Discipline Inspection. 
  The CPC Central Commission for 
Discipline Inspection is investigating Chen's case. 
  According to the 
preliminary investigation, Chen was also involved in other discipline 
violations, such as helping to further the economic interests for illegal 
entrepreneurs, protecting his staff who severely violated laws and discipline, 
furthering the interests of family members by taking advantage of his official 
posts. 
  The CPC Central Committee held that its investigation into Chen 
and his subsequent punishment demonstrated the CPC's resolution to build a clean 
Party and to fight corruption. 
  Whenever an official violated discipline 
and laws, regardless of name or rank, he or she would be severely punished, 
according to the committee. 
  The CPC Central Committee stressed that all 
Party members, especially senior cadres, must have a clear awareness of the 
far-reaching, complex and arduous nature of the fight against corruption, and 
urged them to maintain propriety in their lives, authority, social status and 
personal interests. 
  It reminded them to focus on improving their 
performance, to guard against temptation and to persist in stringent 
self-discipline. 
  Party committees at all levels should strengthen the 
education and management of cadres, tighten restrictions and supervision of 
authority, and promote a better party performance, clean and honest government, 
and the fight against graft, it said. 
  The CPC Central Committee believed 
it could effectively curb corruption under its leadership with Hu Jintao as 
general secretary and with joint efforts of all Party members and the public. 
  It is also confident of improving the general atmosphere in the Party 
and society and boosting the construction of socialism with Chinese 
characteristics further ahead. 
  Chen was born in October 1946 in Ningbo 
city, east China's Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the Architecture 
Department of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Institute of Logistics 
Engineering where he had majored in architecture. He joined the CPC in April 
1980. 
  He assumed the posts of Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal 
Committee of the CPC and member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central 
Committee in 2002. 
  Han Zheng, born in 1954, is a native of Cixi, east 
China's Zhejiang Province. He joined the CPC in 1979 and was a delegate at the 
14th and 15th CPC National Congresses, and a member of the 16th CPC Central 
Committee. 
   Han was elected as deputy party chief 
of Shanghai in May 2002 and became mayor of Shanghai 
in February 2003.
 
 
 
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    Han Zheng, the acting secretary 
 of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China [file 
 photo]
  |   Han Zheng has become acting secretary 
of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), 
according to a decision of the CPC Central Committee. 
The appointment was announced on Monday after Chen Liangyu was suspended from 
the posts of Shanghai's party chief and member of the Political Bureau of the 
CPC Central Committee, for his involvement in a social security fund scandal. 
 Han Zheng was elected as deputy party chief of Shanghai in May 2002 and 
became mayor of Shanghai in February 2003. 
 The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee convened a meeting on 
Sunday and discussed a preliminary investigation report on Chen's relevant 
problems, which was tabled by the the CPC Central Commission for Discipline 
Inspection. 
 The CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection is investigating Chen's 
case. 
 
   
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