Sichuan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision publicly reports 4 typical cases of violations involving eating and drinking

Using "dining tables" to build relationships and "drinking parties" for "mixing" are frequently seen in serious disciplinary and legal violation cases investigated in recent years. The phenomenon of corruption and other misconduct triggered by improper eating and drinking is common. To educate and guide the majority of party members and cadres to adhere to the bottom line of rules, four typical cases of improper eating and drinking are hereby reported.

1. He Shiping, former Party Secretary and Chairman of Emei Film Group Co., Ltd., organized and participated in banquets paid with public funds in violation of regulations. From February 2014 to November 2017, He Shiping, citing the needs of the Emei Film Channel, repeatedly used public funds obtained by withholding advertising revenue without accounting for it to hold banquets and entertain relevant personnel in violation of regulations. He Shiping also had other serious disciplinary and legal violations. In February 2024, He Shiping was expelled from the Party, had his retirement benefits canceled, and his suspected criminal issues were transferred to the procuratorate for legal review and prosecution.

2. Feng Xuesong, Director of the Armed Security Department of Sichuan University of Light Chemical Industry, accepted banquets and entertainment activities arranged by business-related partners and subordinate units in violation of regulations. While serving as Director of the Logistics Management Office and General Manager of the Logistics Service Corporation of Sichuan University of Light Chemical Industry, Feng Xuesong attended banquets and entertainment arranged by a partner of a specialty restaurant in a certain campus of the university twice in 2019, with related expenses paid by the partner. Before the 2020 Spring Festival, Feng Xuesong accepted an invitation from the university's logistics service company's dining center to participate in a group dinner and drinking event organized in violation of regulations under the name of a year-end gathering, with expenses paid by the center through falsely reporting low-consumption items and quantities to embezzle public funds. In the second half of 2020, after completing inspection work at a certain campus, Feng Xuesong participated in banquets, drinking, and entertainment arranged by the head of the dining center of the logistics service company at that campus, with related expenses paid privately by that person. In March 2023, Feng Xuesong received a warning within the Party.

3. Lai Hong, Deputy Director of the Personnel Examination Center of Neijiang City, accepted banquets in violation of regulations in the canteens of managed and serviced units. While serving as Deputy Director and Director of the Vocational Technical Training and Research Office of Neijiang City, Lai Hong, from 2018 to September 2020, after guiding and supervising work at a vocational skill appraisal station, accepted banquets arranged by the head of the appraisal station four times in the internal canteen and outside the station. Lai Hong also had other violations of duties, such as accepting gifts that could affect the impartial execution of official duties. In December 2023, Lai Hong received a major demerit in government affairs.

4. Liao Yong, member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Ecological Environment Bureau of Miyi County, Panzhihua City, agreed to embezzle funds to pay for dining expenses. In July 2021, Liao Yong agreed that bureau staff used official letters from out-of-town units, which did not actually incur reception expenses, to reimburse official reception fees, using the funds to pay for dining expenses that were not reimbursable according to regulations, and did not proactively clarify the issue during the investigation and cleanup of the "eating with official letters" problem. In May 2023, Liao Yong received a warning within the Party.

Improper eating and drinking erode the dam of the Central Eight Provisions, damage the Party's image, breed political and corruption problems, and are even more harmful compared to other indulgent and extravagant issues. Among the four cases above, some embezzled funds to cover improper eating and drinking expenses, some gladly accepted invitations from "bosses" or "subordinates," and some moved the dining locations to internal canteens and other concealed places. Under the high-pressure situation, improper eating and drinking show hidden and covert characteristics. In addition, some units paid meal expenses that should have been borne by individuals, some raised official reception standards under the guise of investment promotion and accepted banquets from managed service objects, and some indulged in excessive eating and drinking during inspections, research, training, and other official activities. These expose that some party members and cadres still hold erroneous views such as "unchanged eating habits," "hard to quit drinking," "minor matters," and "special industry considerations," and a mentality of taking chances still exists.

Party members and cadres at all levels across the province should take these cases as a warning, engage in self-reflection, deeply learn lessons from typical cases, enhance their sense of reverence, clarify behavioral boundaries, adhere to disciplinary red lines, strictly implement all regulations on integrity and self-discipline, and resolutely resist improper eating and drinking. They should remember that public funds belong to the public, practice thrift, and live frugally. They should uphold clean and clear political-business relations and comradeship, and not organize or participate in banquets that may affect the impartial execution of official duties. Leading cadres at all levels should take the lead in implementing Party discipline and laws, set examples, lead by example, and implement the spirit of the Central Eight Provisions with practical actions.

Party organizations at all levels must firmly shoulder the political responsibility of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, deeply carry out Party discipline learning and education, strengthen regular education and management of party members and cadres, and focus on prevention and strictness in daily work. Discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels should make continuous rectification of improper eating and drinking a regular part of correcting the "Four Winds" (formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance), deeply grasp regional, industry, and field characteristics, investigate corruption through misconduct, correct misconduct through corruption, and investigate and treat misconduct and corruption simultaneously. With important festivals such as Labor Day and Dragon Boat Festival approaching, party organizations and discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels should closely monitor the common "festival illnesses" in work style, provide early education, early reminders, early arrangements, and early supervision, and make great efforts to eliminate the soil and conditions that give rise to work style problems, striving to create a clean and upright festival atmosphere.

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