On July 16 (Wednesday), former Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Wu Yingjie, was sentenced to death for bribery, with a two-year reprieve.
According to the official Chinese media CCTV, the Beijing Third Intermediate People’s Court on July 16 local time sentenced Wu Yingjie, former Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, to death for bribery, with a two-year reprieve, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of all personal property.
Reports indicate that Wu Yingjie received bribes totaling more than 343 million Chinese Yuan from 2006 to 2021. The court found that his actions constituted the crime of bribery and should be sentenced to death. However, considering his “reporting of others suspected of crimes and significant meritorious performance” and his “active confession of most of the bribery facts not yet known to the supervisory authorities,” the death penalty was commuted with a reprieve.
Public records show that Wu Yingjie, who is of Han ethnicity, was born in 1956 in Changyi, Shandong. He joined the Communist Party of China in May 1987 and lived in Tibet for over 60 years, working for nearly 47 years. Both he and his wife are known as “second-generation Tibetans.”
Wu Yingjie served as Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region government in January 2003 and as Executive Vice Chairman from 2006. From April 2013, he served as Executive Vice Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region Party Committee and was promoted to Party Secretary in 2016. He entered the National People’s Congress in October 2021 and became a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference since March 2023 until his investigation.