Survey of China’s 24 most corrupt officials in 2012
2012 was the annus horribilis of the “trial by Weibo” of government officials, their public humiliation and ultimate sacking in disgrace. More than ever before, last year witnessed multiple cases where government officials were implicated in sex videos and other corruption scandals that first appeared in full public view on the Chinese Internet and led ultimately to their dismissal. If it wasn’t already before, the public image of government officials of various ranks in China was in crisis in 2012.
In light of this situation, the Crisis Management Research Center at Renmin University (中国人民大学危机管理研究中心) in Beijing earlier in January this year published a report entitled “The Public Image Crisis of Government Officials” (官员形象危机2012报告). As the Yanzhao Evening News (燕赵晚报) from Hebei province today explains in a front page story, the Crisis Management Research Center surveyed 24 cases of corruption that became public knowledge on the Chinese Internet in 2012 so as to divine some trends and patterns in corrupt behavior among government officials in China. Their findings included that 95% of corrupt government officials keep mistresses, and more than 60% of these corrupt officials are openly cohabiting with their mistresses. Yet this is merely the beginning. Read on for what misdeeds the men behind the faces below got up to in 2012, before paying the price brought on by full public knowledge. Ah, the Internet…
Some of China’s most corrupt (and most publicly known) former government officials in 2012
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- Bo Xilai (薄熙来), former Party secretary of Chongqing
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- Chen Hongping (陈弘平), former Party secretary of Jieyang in Guangdong province
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- Lei Zhengfu (雷政富), former Party secretary of Beibei district, Chongqing
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- Li Chuncheng (李春城 ), former Sichuan deputy Party secretary
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- Li Xingong (李新功), former deputy director of a department in Yongcheng, Henan province
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- Li Yali (李亚力), former Public Security Bureau deputy director in Shanxi province
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- Liang Daoheng (梁道行), former deputy mayor of Shenzhen, Guangdong province
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- Shan Zhengde (单增德), former deputy head of Shandong Department of Agriculture
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- Wei Jinfeng (危金峰), former deputy director of the Guangdong provincial department of finance
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- Yang Cunhu (杨存虎), former Party secretary in Jingle, Shanxi province
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- Yang Dacai (杨达才) “Watch brother”, former secretary of the Administration of Work Safety in Shaanxi province
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- Zheng Beiquan (郑北泉), former deputy chief of Yingde Public Security Bureau in Gaungdong province
