[The Epoch Times, March 10, 2023]The National People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) announced the results of the “election” today (10th). chairman. Han Zheng is accused of being a member of Jiang’s faction, and he has many scandals in Shanghai.
In the past five years, Wang Qishan, a member of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, has assisted Xi Jinping in foreign affairs, and the 69-year-old Han Zheng is expected to continue Wang Qishan’s model or get involved in foreign affairs.
Han Zheng is a native of Cixi, Zhejiang. He grew up in Shanghai and has more than 40 years of working experience in Shanghai. Long, the two worked together briefly.
Han Zheng is recognized as Jiang Zemin’s confidant. “Fa Guang” once revealed in an interview that the relationship between Han Zheng and Xi Jinping was delicate when they were in Shanghai.
There is a saying among Shanghai folks that “Han Zheng is not upright”, pointing to many scandals about Han Zheng.
On November 15, 2010, a large fire broke out in an apartment in Jing’an District, Shanghai. According to official data, 58 people died, 71 were injured, and the compensation was tens of millions of yuan. However, according to media investigations, the final number of victims was at least nearly 100, and the loss was as high as 600 million yuan. It was the largest fire in Shanghai since 1949. Public opinion strongly demanded that the then mayor, Han Zheng, take the blame and resign. However, Han Zheng was promoted to secretary two years later.
In October 2014, Zheng Enchong, a well-known human rights lawyer in Shanghai, revealed to The Epoch Times that he had reported to Wang Qishan multiple corruption acts in collusion between Jiang Miankang and Shanghai Party Secretary Han Zheng. It is said that in the land auction in the prime location of the Shanghai Municipal Government, if you follow the line of each transaction, you can always find out the clues that Jiang Miankang was involved in. But the matter is over.
On the evening of December 31, 2014, a deadly stampede occurred at the New Year’s Eve event at Shanghai’s Bund Plaza. Officials said 36 people died. On the night of the incident, Shanghai Mayor Yang Xiong went home to sleep after enjoying the opera, while Han Zheng was “talking about work” with a TV hostess. Public opinion demanded that Han Zheng and Yang Xiong step down, but in the end only a group of district-level officials were treated as “scapegoats”.
It is also rumored that Han Zheng and Chen Liangyu, the former secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, had a relationship with cliques; Han Zheng once used administrative funds and taxes to give away a house (with an area ranging from more than 140 square meters to more than 220 square meters) In Han Zheng’s tenure, nearly 60% of the officials in Shanghai’s party, government, and political and legal teams at all levels engaged in extramarital affairs;
Responsible editor: Ning Feng#
