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Corrupted officials’ special ‘personal interests’

 

• Amateur inventor

Wang Lijun, former vice mayor and police chief of Chongqing Municipality, liked to invent gizmos from food trolleys to keychains. He owned 254 patents, with 211 of them sought in 2011, which means he applied for 1.7 patents a day that year. As a top police official, most of his inventions were related to law enforcement, such as police uniforms and accessories, but they also extended to office stationery. He was convicted on abuse of power, bribery and corruption and sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2012.

 

• Golf fan

Hao Heping, a former department chief of the State Food and Drug Administration, was passionate for the “sport for the noble” — golf. He took planes nationwide just to try different courses and often went to high-end golfing clubs. Companies needing approval for new medical apparatus and instruments were said to pay his bills. He was sentenced in 2007 to 15 years in prison.

 

• Calligraphy hobbyist

Hu Changqing, former vice governor of Jiangxi Province, liked Chinese calligraphy and was a member of the Chinese Calligraphers’ Association. Hu not only liked to write inscriptions for many places, for which he charged, but also had plenty of “admirers” who paid for his calligraphy works. During his term of office, Hu accepted more than 1 million yuan by selling his calligraphy works, which had no collecting value. Hu was sentenced to death in February 2000 for severe embezzlement and graft and executed a month later.

 

• Showbiz enthusiast

Shen Weichen, former Party secretary of China Association for Science and Technology, was infatuated with the entertainment business. During his term as director of the publicity department in Shanxi Province, he was involved in many plays and dramas. Only one of them, “The Courtyard of Qiao’s Family,” was once very popular in China. However, he also used his power to have sexual relationships with many women in the show business. Shen was removed from his position in April this year and is under investigation.




 

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