Zhou Zhenhong (; born October 1957) is a former Chinese politician, who most recently served as the head of the

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of the Guangdong provincial Party Committee. Previously he also served as Communist Party Secretary of

Maoming Maoming, alternately romanized as Mowming, is a prefecture-level city located in southwestern Guangdong province, China. Facing the South China Sea to the city's south, Maoming city borders Zhanjiang to the west, Yangjiang to the east, and Yunf ...

, a city in Guangdong province. Between 2008 and 2013, he served as a member of the National Committee of the

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. Zhou was born in Puning, Guangdong province, to a poor family of farmers. He was the eldest of three children. He worked as a farm hand as a child, entering a local production team when he was only ten years old. He excelled at school. Following the

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, on January 16, 2012, Zhou was detained by investigators from the anti-graft agency of the Communist Party. On February 8, 2013, Zhou was expelled from the

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for "serious violations of discipline and law." Zhou went on trial at the

Xinyang Xinyang (; postal: Sinyang) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Henan province, People's Republic of China, the southernmost administrative division in the province. Its total population was 6,234,401 according to the 2020 census. As of t ...

Intermediate People's Court in Henan province in January 2014. He was charged with bribery and "amassing a large fortune of unclear origin." He was charged with taking bribes equivalent of some 24.64 million yuan (~$3.95 million). In February, the Henan Provincial High Court confirmed the lower court's ruling and sentenced Zhou to death with a two-year reprieve. His successor, Luo Yinguo, was also charged with corruption.

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