After being expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and handed over to judicial authorities for half a month, Li Xianguang, former Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Heilongjiang Province, was recently officially arrested.
On September 26, the official website of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the CCP announced that Li Xianguang, former Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Heilongjiang Province, was suspected of bribery and corruption. The investigation by the National Supervisory Commission has been concluded, and the case has been transferred to the prosecutors for review and prosecution. Recently, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate made the decision to arrest Li Xianguang on charges of bribery and corruption. The case is currently under further investigation.
On March 17 of this year, Li Xianguang was officially announced to have fallen from power; on March 26, he was removed from his position as a representative of the 14th People’s Congress of Heilongjiang Province. On September 11, he was officially expelled from the Party and handed over to judicial authorities.
The CCP’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has previously reported that Li Xianguang had presumptuously questioned the central policy of the Party, resisted organizational reviews, failed to report personal matters as required, did not truthfully explain issues during organizational conversations, conducted illicit financial and sexual transactions, lacked discipline awareness, violated rules by prying into inspection information and retaining classified documents illegally, illegally received large sums of money, and misappropriated public funds.
Public information shows that Li Xianguang was born in February 1963 in Hanchuan, Hubei Province. He started working in August 1983 and graduated as an on-the-job postgraduate in Agricultural Economics Management from Renmin University of China. He has worked in the former Ministry of Agriculture, holding positions such as Director of the Farmers’ Burden Management Office of the Agricultural Cooperation and Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Deputy Director of the Farmers’ Burden Management Office of the Ministry of Agriculture, and Deputy Director of the Rural Economic Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture.
In July 1999, Li Xianguang was transferred to the Vice-Director of the Office of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, and the following year he was transferred to the Director-General Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Office of the Chinese Communist Party.
In March 2005, Li Xianguang served as the Vice-Secretary-General of the CCP Heilongjiang Provincial Committee (Exercising the same powers as a head of department), the Mayor and Secretary of the Shuangyashan City Communist Party Committee. In 2013, he became the Secretary-General of the Provincial Government and in 2018, he was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Congress, reaching the rank of Deputy Minister-level official, until his downfall in March of this year.
Thus far, 33 senior officials within the Party have been arrested this year. The 32 officials previously involved are: Xu Wenrong, Wang Yongsheng, Xiao Xing, Tang Shuangning, Chen Jixing, Jiang Jie, Liu Lixian, Zhang Guang, Sun Zhigang, Liu Handong, Zheng Xuelin, Shang Liguan, Han Yong, Ling Chengxing, Zhang Xiulong, Zhang Hongli, Zhou Zheng, Yang Kening, Li Pengxin, Wang Yixin, Chen Yuxiang, Zhong Ziran, Peng Guofu, Dai Daojin, Su Zengtian, Wang Yong, Long Fei, Li Jiping, Hu Qiang, Wang Yilin, Zhang Zulin, Liu Yuejin.