[Epoch Times, January 23, 2022]Today (January 23), the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Xu Baoyi, a former member of the party group and deputy general manager of China Grain Reserve Management Group Co., Ltd. (abbreviation: China Grain Reserve), was under investigation. He became the fifth central management cadre to be sacked this year.
According to public information, Xu Baoyi graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology and has worked in a central enterprise of the Communist Party of China for a long time. He used to be the assistant to the general manager of CNOOC Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. Director and Chairman of Supply and Marketing Petroleum Co., Ltd., Deputy General Manager and Party Committee Member of China Supply and Marketing Group, and Director and Chairman of China Supply and Marketing Petroleum Corporation.
In 2014, Xu Baoyi was transferred to be a member of the party group and deputy general manager of China Grain Reserve Management Corporation. In November 2017, China Grain Reserve Management Corporation changed its name to China Grain Reserve.
This time, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Xu Baoyi had been investigated, and it was also the first time that Xu Baoyi was no longer serving as a member of the party group and deputy general manager of China Grain Reserve.
China Grain Reserve is one of the two major grain-related state-owned enterprises in China. was established on May 18, 2000 and is headquartered in Beijing.
According to the official website, China Grain Reserves is a large-scale and important state-owned backbone enterprise established with the approval of the State Council, involving national security and the lifeline of the national economy. China Grain Reserve Corporation is entrusted by the State Council to be specifically responsible for the operation and management of the central reserve of grain, cotton and oil, and at the same time, it is entrusted by the state to carry out control tasks such as the purchase, sale, adjustment and storage of grain, cotton and oil. The preservation and appreciation of state-owned assets.
In the past two months before Xu Baoyi was sacked, three other senior executives of China Grain Reserve were investigated.
On November 23, 2021, Tang Chengyou, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of the Chengdu Branch of China Grain Storage Group Corporation, was investigated;
On November 27, 2021, Sun Liguo, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of the Liaoning Branch of China Grain Reserve Management Group Co., Ltd., was investigated;
On December 1, 2021, Zhang Chongyong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of the Hunan Branch of China Grain Reserve Management Group Co., Ltd., was investigated.
The sixth plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, which ended three days ago, mentioned in the communique that major corruption cases were investigated and dealt with last year, and corruption cases intertwined with political and economic issues were investigated and dealt with. Among them, anti-corruption in the fields of grain purchase and sales and development zone construction was written into the communique for the first time.
Xu Baoyi has also become the first grain-related “big tiger” investigated and punished since the sixth plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Xu Baoyi is the fifth central management cadre (deputy provincial and ministerial level senior official) to be investigated since 2022. The other four are Zhang Yongze, former vice chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region Government, Wang Bin, former chairman of China Life Insurance (Group) Company, and former Guangxi Autonomous Region government. Vice-Chairman Liu Hongwu, former Deputy Director of Sichuan Provincial People’s Congress Wang Minghui.
Responsible editor: Fang Xiao