Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission announced on May 3 that the former member of the Political Consultative Conference of Yunnan Province and Secretary-General of the Office, and the Party Secretary of the Office, Che Zhimin, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and is currently under investigation.
Public records show that Che Zhimin was born in Shiping, Yunnan in November 1952, and has served as the Deputy Secretary of the Communist Youth League and Director of the Propaganda Department of Yunnan Chemical Industry Construction Company. Since August 1982, he has successively served as the secretary of the Office of Yunnan Province, the Party Secretary and Director of the Economic and Technological Research Center of the Provincial Government.
From December 2007 to January 2008, he served as a member of the Party group of the CPPCC of Yunnan Province, the director of the Provincial Government Research Office (Provincial Government Development Research Center), and the Deputy Secretary-General of the Provincial Government.
From January 2008 to January 2016, Che Zhimin served as a member of the Party group and Secretary-General of the CPPCC of Yunnan Province, and the Party Secretary of the Office.
After retirement, Che Zhimin took on several social roles and regularly participated in various activities.
According to reports on the official website of the Communist Party of China, on the third day of the May Day holiday, Che Zhimin, 72 years old, was investigated after nine years of retirement. In April this year, after the Sixth Central Inspection Team entered Yunnan, the officialdom in Yunnan experienced a shake-up, with 24 officials currently under investigation.
Wu Ping (pseudonym), who resides in Guangdong, told Epoch Times, “The common people are relatively numb to the capture of corrupt officials. Unlike before, catching corrupt officials used to bring excitement and joy, but now the people understand that no matter how many corrupt officials are caught, their lives remain unchanged.” “Each corrupt official is found to have embezzled a lot of money, and the more they arrest, the more corruption is revealed. The (Communist) system is corrupt to the core, if it is not dismantled and thoroughly changed, the people will have no way out.”
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China announced the latest anti-corruption data on April 22, showing that 185,000 people were disciplined in the first three months of this year, an increase of over 50% compared to the same period last year, with 14 provincial-ministerial level officials among them, an increase of two compared to last year. During January to March, 220,000 cases were filed, nearly 50% more than the 149,000 cases during the same period last year.