Zou Taixin (; born November 1966) is a Chinese former politician who spent most of his career in

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province. He was investigated by the

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in February 2015. Previously he served as the

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Biography

Zou was born and raised in

Tianmen Tianmen () is a sub-prefecture-level city (sometimes considered a county-level city) in central Hubei Province, China. It is on the Jianghan Plain, on the west side of Wuhan (the biggest city of Central China, as well as the capital of Hubei) a ...

. He began his political career in June 1988, and joined the

in May 1993. He spent 16 years working in

Jingzhou Jingzhou () is a prefecture-level city in southern Hubei province, China, located on the banks of the Yangtze River. Its total residential population was 5,231,180 based on the 2020 census, 1,068,291 of whom resided in the built-up (''or metro' ...

before serving as the Deputy Communist Party Secretary of

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. In September 2011, he was promoted to

, he remained in that position until February 2015, when he was placed under investigation by the Communist Party's

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. On August 3, he was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and dismissed from public office. In June 2016, he was indicted on suspicion of accepting bribes. On August 11, he pleaded guilty to bribery during his first trial at Jingmen Intermediate People's Court in Hubei province. Prosecutors accused him of taking advantage of his different positions in Hubei between 2002 and 2014 to seek profits for various companies and individuals in individuals and enterprises selection, land acquisition and demolition, real estate development, and financial funds allocation. In return, he accepted money and valuables worth more than 1.6 million yuan.

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