Sun Shaocheng Expelled from the Party and Removed from Public Office

On September 9, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Sun Shaocheng, a former deputy director of the Social Development Affairs Committee of the 14th National People’s Congress and a member of the 20th Central Committee, had been expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office for serious disciplinary and legal violations. Public records show that Sun Shaocheng was born in July 1960 in Haiyang, Shandong. He previously served as Vice Minister of Civil Affairs, Vice Governor of Shandong Province, Standing Committee Member of the Shanxi Provincial Committee and Vice Governor, Party Secretary and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Land and Resources, Minister and Party Secretary of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs, as well as Party Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, among other posts. In January this year, he was officially reported to be under investigation. The announcement said that Sun Shaocheng had resisted organizational review, illegally accepted gifts and money, accepted banquets that could affect the impartial performance of official duties, sought benefits for others in the appointment of officials and recruitment of employees, condoned relatives in using his influence to seek private gains, and illegally interfered in judicial activities. He was also suspected of using his position to illegally accept huge sums of money and property. The proceeds from his disciplinary and illegal gains will be confiscated, and the suspected criminal matter has been transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution in accordance with the law.