On Thursday (8th), the first trial of the bribery case involving former director Bai Tinghui of the Shanghai State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (referred to as the Municipal SOE Commission) was held, with Bai being accused of accepting nearly 90 million Chinese yuan in bribes.
On August 8th, the Shanghai First Intermediate People’s Court publicly held the first trial of Bai Tinghui’s bribery case. The Shanghai Municipal Prosecutor’s Office dispatched personnel to support the prosecution.
The prosecution alleges that from 2004 to 2023, Bai Tinghui used his position to illegally accept property totaling more than 88.91 million Chinese yuan.
On September 14th last year, Bai Tinghui was officially investigated, and there were reports that he was taken directly to Beijing by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on the day he fell from power; in late May this year, Bai Tinghui was “double-dealt” and transferred to the prosecution for examination and prosecution.
Public records show that Bai Tinghui was born in 1967 and started working in 1992.
Bai Tinghui is a local official in Shanghai and has held important positions in the city’s transportation system for a long time. He has served as Deputy Chief Engineer of Shanghai Metro General Company, General Manager of Shanghai Urban Rail Transit Construction Co., Deputy General Manager and Chief Engineer of Shanghai Metro Construction Co., Chief Engineer and Vice President of Shanghai Shentong Group Co., Ltd., and Director of Shanghai Water Bureau.
In February 2019, Bai Tinghui was appointed Secretary and Director of the Party Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Government’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.
The Shanghai SOE Commission is a direct agency of the Shanghai Municipal Government of the Communist Party of China, representing the municipal government in exercising the rights of the investing entity over Shanghai’s state-owned enterprises, responsible for overseeing the assets, personnel, and operations of the enterprises under its jurisdiction. As the highest administrative official of the Shanghai SOE Commission, Bai Tinghui controlled a large number of state-owned enterprises in Shanghai.
Political commentator Li Yanming once told Dajiyuan that Bai Tinghui’s corruption case is intricately linked to the network of Shanghai’s powerful and influential figures. “During the over 20 years when Jiang Zemin was in power, his second son Jiang Miankang controlled Shanghai’s transportation and urban construction system. Bai Tinghui’s downfall involves corruption in Shanghai’s transportation and urban construction system and is inseparable from Jiang Miankang’s corrupt practices.”