On March 8, 2000, a gunshot was fired in Nanchang, Jiangxi, ending the life of Hu Changqing, a typical corrupt person who betrayed his ideals and beliefs, was politically alienated from the party, was greedy economically, and was degenerate in life. . This is the first deputy provincial-level cadre sentenced to death in the 50 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In August 1948, Hu Changqing was born in a remote mountain village in Changde City, Hunan Province. Due to the harsh natural environment, the farmers here lived in poverty at that time. He grew up in such a remote mountain village. . Hu Changqing's parents lived in extremely poverty because they had many children. They relied on farming to support their family year after year. Therefore, Hu Changqing was a typical child of a poor farmer.

Although Hu Changqing was the youngest in his family during his childhood, due to poverty at home and insufficient labor force, as a minor he had to do all kinds of farm work, such as herding cattle, cutting firewood, and farming. As they grew older and reached the age of education, their parents were influenced by the traditional consciousness of passing on the family line. In order to keep the Hu family strong, they made their sons jump out of the valley to "have a future". They reluctantly gave up their love and made Hu Changqing's two sisters drop out of school. Concentrate financial resources for Hu Changqing to go to school alone. But the poor Hu family had to save a little money to pay tuition even if they wanted to send one child to school. Therefore, in order to pay for books and tuition fees, Hu Changqing often carried ten kilograms of radishes to the town market to sell radishes to earn some money and share some expenses with his parents. From years of carrying burdens, blood blisters formed on his neck. Until his death, there were still scars on the back of his neck from being worn down by a carrying pole when he was a child. Because Hu Changqing's home is far from the school, he has to run four kilometers to go to school every day. There is no money to buy shoes at home. His pair of sneakers were torn and mended. He wore them for five years until he could no longer wear them. Throw it away. Sometimes when the villagers see this, they also lend a hand to help his family. So Hu Changqing's childhood was difficult.

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If children in rural areas want to escape from the environment where they face the loess and their backs to the sky, there are only two ways out: to go to school or join the army. Because of where. During the "Cultural Revolution", the path to higher education was blocked. Therefore, Hu Changqing took the road of joining the army. In March 1968, amidst the envy of his hometown elders, this lucky man responded to the call and enlisted in the army to fulfill his duties as a citizen. Due to the passion of youth, Hu Changqing made rapid progress under the training and education of the army. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1969, the second year after joining the army. But at this time, Hu Changqing's psychology towards joining the Party was both simple and complicated. In other words, why he joined the Party and his motivations for joining the Party were not very clear yet. As he said himself, "I did not really understand the motivation and purpose of joining the party, and I entered the party with the idea that I would have personal political capital by joining the party." Although his ten-year military career had transformed him through training, due to his weak ideological foundation, the transformation of his worldview was not complete. With a lucky man's mentality and Guangzong's desire to become famous, he transferred to local work in 1979 and served as Certain leadership positions. At this time, in his heart, it cannot be said that he has no belief in fighting for the cause of the party, but the ideas of "honoring the ancestors" and "promoting and getting rich" are deeply rooted, the party spirit is seriously impure, and communist ideals and beliefs are in Hu Changqing's outlook on life. Lack of a firm ideological foundation. From then on, he embarked on the official career path with this complicated psychology and began the "turning" of his life.

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People say: There are two major elements for success in life, one is quality and the other is opportunity. But it depends on how one grasps it. Some people use their own efforts and struggles to create opportunities, while others use their best efforts, speculation, and various means to "create" opportunities. Hu Changqing is the latter. After Hu Changqing transferred to work locally for a period of time, through connections, he was transferred to Beijing in 1987. First at the People's Insurance Company of China, and then he moved to the State Administration of Taxation and served as deputy director and director of the office. A few years later, he became deputy director of the State Council's Religious Affairs Bureau and a member of the Party Leadership Group. In August 1995, he seized the opportunity of being sent to Jiangxi Province to serve as assistant to the governor, member of the provincial government party group, and later served as deputy governor. Because Hu's purpose of joining the party and getting promoted was not pure, he had a strong desire for power. Therefore, for the sake of power, he used all kinds of means to seize power, and spent his whole day making "small calculations" to gain power. In his mind, he had long forgotten the serious meaning of the words communist. Deep in his thoughts, the motivation and purpose of "being an official" have long been transformed into personal material greed and enjoyment.

In order to remove obstacles to his official career, Hu Changqing paid bribes to others five times from the beginning of 1997 to June 1999, totaling RMB 80,000. Especially after taking office in Jiangxi Province, his desire for power expanded rapidly. He tried every possible means to grab power crazily, used power to gain money, and then used money to exchange for power, and the cycle started over and over again. At this time, Hu Changqing was already bent on personal interests, regardless of the interests of the country and the masses, and started to engage in infighting with some unscrupulous businessmen. Approving notes, writing letters, making phone calls for some "big money", and helping violators apply for loans, development projects, etc. In just four years in Jiangxi, in order to show his "loyalty" to his friends, Hu Changqing successively caused losses of tens of millions of yuan to the country and the people due to his generosity to the country and the people. But Hu Qingtian shamelessly said to some of his "friends": "I have the power, you have the money, let's help each other, and everyone has something to gain." Once, Hu Changqing called an individual boss and asked him to send some money to Beijing. He also said that he is "young and promising, with a bright political future": "Now I will spend some money on you, and when I become a high official in the future, as long as I write a note or make a phone call, you will earn millions or tens of millions." . You can become a multi-millionaire." Hu Changqing's destruction once again serves as a warning to those who join the cadre team with the purpose of "promoting and getting rich": If a person pursues official position for personal gain, then "become an official" The next step is "jail". So people who have a strong desire for power. It will inevitably go against the people.

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Because Hu Changqing had selfish thoughts of promotion and wealth, once he gained power, he took advantage of the convenience and influence of his power to demand and accept bribes wantonly. During his tenure as deputy governor of the Jiangxi Provincial People's Government, assistant to the governor, deputy director of the State Council Religious Affairs Administration, and director of the Office of the State Administration of Taxation, he accepted and extorted other people's property more than ninety times, equivalent to about five million yuan in RMB. One and a half million yuan. In addition, Hu Changqing could not explain the source of his huge property of more than 1.6 million yuan, which clearly exceeded his legal income.

In the 1980s, Chinese society entered a new era of reform and opening up. Faced with the impact of decadent trends in the Western capitalist stage such as egoism, money worship, and hedonism, Hu Changqing's ideas were washed away For the sake of personal gain, he neglected his normal business and spent his energy on crooked roads, quietly reselling steel, selling asphalt on a consignment basis, taking on deposits, investing in stocks, etc. The idea of ????"everything is about money" has begun to take hold, but at that time there was no condition to make money by writing approval notes and making phone calls.

In the 1990s, after Hu Changqing took up a leadership position, under the temptation of power, money, and beauty, he began to make money unscrupulously, especially when he was the deputy governor of the province. The amount is "ten thousand yuan a day". After Hu Changqing arrived in Jiangxi, he met Zhou XX, the president of Jiangxi Special Group, an individual boss by chance. Since they had a similar odor, they exchanged glasses for each other and became close friends. Zhou XX, who was twenty-six or seventeen years old, had long dreamed of getting some official position as a backer, so he seized this rare opportunity and got a job. One saw that the other party had power, and the other saw that the other party was rich, and each had their own agendas, and began to take advantage of each other. Due to the power-money transaction between them, Zhou XX came to Hu Changqing when he had difficulties, and Hu Changqing responded to his requests. Zhou XX proposed that he needed a bank loan to run his business, and he got it easily every time. Zhou XX wanted to build an "Ote Passenger Parking Lot" and solve the problem of long-distance bus passenger lines. Hu Changqing said nothing, and with a stroke of his pen, the relevant departments acted in accordance with the "imperial approval" and gave the green light all the way. In this way, Hu Changqing and his wife successively accepted and demanded Zhou's RMB 830,000, US$25,000, HK$750,000, and valuables worth more than RMB 140,000.

Stinky meat attracts flies. In Jiangxi, Hu Changqing is "happy to make friends", very "loyal" and "generous". No matter how big or small, he is willing to "help" as long as his "friends" ask for help. After the reputation of being greedy for money and being able to get things done spread, some people who borrowed power to make money came one after another and tried their best to climb this big tree. And as long as it is profitable, Hu Changqing will "manage" everything big and small. The general manager and chairman of Nanchang Haiwei Industrial Co., Ltd., among others, came to Hu Changqing for help because their BMW car files were seized by the traffic police and related to their clothing manufacturing business. They smoothed the situation and Hu Yi received RMB 145,000. and valuables worth thirty-eight thousand yuan as "reward" for helping a "friend" without saying a word. What's more, Hu Changqing just helped Jiangxi Golden Sunshine Group apply for a business license as soon as possible, and then he accepted and demanded 160,000 yuan in RMB and 10,000 U.S. dollars from the chairman of the company.

The chairman of Jiangxi Weimeng Group found an import and export company through Hu Changqing to help provide a guarantee of a US$2.46 million letter of credit at a cost of 170,000 yuan. As long as it is beneficial, Hu Changqing will take care of both public and private matters. Hu Changqing received RMB 60,000 from the chairman of Fujian Xunrong Real Estate Company for inclusion in the national housing project and resolving project disputes. Hu Changqing was not satisfied with this. Afterwards, he asked Lin for two Rolex watches worth more than 80,000 Hong Kong dollars to achieve "mental balance." In the past few years, Hu Changqing, who had received benefits, had completely ignored any disciplines and regulations. He had no right and wrong, no principles. He did not care about official or private matters, major or minor matters, whether it was illegal or not, legal or illegal. As long as he found Hu, he would definitely deal with it as a top priority. , but he never works in vain, and trading power for money has become the "motto" of his life. Therefore, from 1997 to July 1999, *** received and demanded 1.53 million yuan, 750,000 Hong Kong dollars, 35,000 US dollars, and 1.4 million yuan worth of money from named people. More than 10,000 yuan of high-end watches, diamond rings and other valuables.

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Politically alienated from the Party, financially greedy, and in life corrupt. He catered to the needs of egoism, money worship, and hedonism. He regarded his career as a side job and the use of power for personal gain as his main job, and began to pursue enjoyment. After he took up a leadership position, he regarded learning as "window decoration". In order to satisfy his desire for "famousness", he bought academic qualifications and stole them. In his position as deputy governor, he kept a mistress and worked as a prostitute. Not only did he frequent luxury hotels, but he also ate delicacies and drank foreign wine worth tens of thousands of yuan a bottle. In terms of clothing, he wears "famous brands" from head to toe. A Rolex on his wrist is worth more than 100,000 yuan. He is also afraid that others will not know about it, so he always likes to brag in front of everyone. "A cat is kept in a cattle pen and can come and go freely." This is Hu Changqing's confession. He is such a cat who "can be free and independent". During his stay in Jiangxi, he secretly went to other places more than 20 times for personal matters. He came and went as he pleased and never said hello. He believed that no one could care about him in his spare time. Hu Changqing is not willing to be lonely in the pursuit of women. He often accepts some wealthy people to provide him with "girlfriends" at all costs. These so-called "public relations ladies" are not from the local area, and they are afraid that the locals will be there. Hu was recognized on TV, so Hu usually appeared as a "calligrapher" and "big boss". For the sake of convenience, Hu Changqing often takes advantage of opportunities to go out for meetings, attract investment, or use Sundays and holidays to go out "fashionably." Once he set out for Guangzhou with a prostitute with him. After official duties, he dismissed his staff and went to Macau incognito. He took his "lady" on a sightseeing tour, stayed in high-end hotels, watched erotic dance performances, and even set foot in casinos when he had time, enjoying the scenery and spending a lot of money. What's more, Hu Changqing sometimes went out and visited prostitutes to find women. In order to hide his identity from others, he got several ID cards for himself and never revealed his true identity or name when registering at a hotel. Among them, he used the ID card of a rural farmer in Guangdong and visited some big hotels in Guangdong several times without anyone knowing. Therefore, Hu Changqing's "mistress" and "Miss Pao" have been difficult to detect for a long time. There was another time when he went to attend an exhibition in another place. After the meeting, he "lost". The provincial leaders called to look for him. The staff were nowhere to be found, and all their mobile phones were turned off. He searched all the venues and hotels to no avail. Afterwards, I learned that Hu Changqing went out to pick up a "lady" and used a fake ID to register for a room. As a result, the "vice governor" disappeared for more than ten hours.

Hu Changqing went to a dead end and was naturally severely punished by party discipline and state law.