After a month of the fall of Fei Gaoyun, member of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and Secretary of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee, Hefei Deputy Mayor He Fengyang was also investigated on June 13, 2026. Over the past year, officials in Hefei have been continuously swept away in a crackdown, including officials like Lu Jun, Deputy Secretary of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee, and Dong Zhaoli, former chairman of the Hefei Municipal Political Consultative Conference.
On June 13, 2026, according to the information released by the Anhui Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission of the CCP, He Fengyang, former member of the party group of the Hefei Municipal Government and Deputy Mayor, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and is under investigation.
Publicly available information shows that He Fengyang was born in October 1977 in Susong, Anhui Province. He graduated from the biology department of Anhui University in 1998 and has previously served as the Deputy Director and member of the Working Committee of the Fuyang Economic and Technological Development Zone in Anhui Province, Deputy Secretary, Mayor, and Secretary of the Committee of the Jieshou City Committee of Fuyang City. He became the Deputy Mayor of Hefei in January 2022.
Reports indicate that in April 2026, He Fengyang attended a party meeting and an executive meeting of the Hefei Municipal Government.
Hefei is the capital of Anhui Province. In the past year, the officialdom in Hefei has been continually swept by a series of crackdowns, with officials falling from grace one after another.
On May 6, 2026, Fei Gaoyun, member of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the CCP and Secretary of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee, was removed from office. On November 18, 2025, Lu Jun, Deputy Secretary of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee and deputy to Fei Gaoyun, also fell from grace.
Prior to Fei Gaoyun, Zhang Hongwen, who had a background in military industry, went “missing” for several months and in March 2025, news broke that he had been relieved of his position as member of the Anhui Provincial Committee and Secretary of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee, with his whereabouts unknown.
Additionally, Dong Zhaoli, former chairman of the Hefei Municipal Political Consultative Conference and former Deputy Secretary of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee, was investigated on March 24, 2026. Gong Yan, former Deputy Secretary-General of the Hefei Municipal Government, was investigated on August 1, 2025. Zhang Shenping, former Deputy Director and Level One Researcher of the Health Commission of Hefei, was investigated on January 30, 2026. Xu Shengbin, former Party Committee Secretary and Director of the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Hefei, was investigated on December 31, 2025. Du Pingtai, former Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Hefei People’s Congress, was investigated on April 18, 2025.
According to the information released by the Anhui Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission, besides the above-mentioned officials at the department level who fell from grace, several county-level officials in Hefei have also been investigated in the past month. This includes Bai Hefeng, Party Committee Secretary and Director of the Health and Family Planning Bureau of Baohe District of Hefei (June 4, 2026), Yang Lian, a fourth-level researcher at the Shushan District Sub-bureau of the Hefei Natural Resources and Planning Bureau (May 22, 2026), Sun Ye, a member of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Baohe District, who is a third-level researcher (May 20, 2026), and Zhou Maobin, a member of the Standing Committee of the Luyang District Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee (May 13, 2026).