Zhang Jian (; born September 1955) is a Chinese judge who served as president of Anhui Provincial People's Court from 2013 to 2018. He was investigated by China's top anti-graft agency in August 2019. He was a delegate to the

12th National People's Congress The 12th National People's Congress was elected in national congressional conferences from October 2012 to February 2013 and was in session from 2013 to 2018. It succeeded the 11th National People's Congress. It held five plenary sessions in t ...

Biography

Zhang was born in

Qinyang Qinyang () is a county-level city in Henan province, China, bordering Shanxi province to the north. It is administered by the prefecture-level city Jiaozuo. The current population of Qinyang is estimated at 470,000. In 1999, the population stood ...

Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...

, in September 1955. During the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goa ...

, he worked as a

sent-down youth The sent-down, rusticated, or "educated" youth (), also known as the ''zhiqing'', were the young people who—beginning in the 1950s until the end of the Cultural Revolution, willingly or under coercion—left the urban districts of the ...

Jingmen Jingmen () is a prefecture-level city in central Hubei province, People's Republic of China. Jingmen is within an area where cotton and oil crops are planted. The population of the prefecture is 2,873,687 (2010 population census). The urban area ...

Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The ...

. He graduated from National Police University for Criminal Justice,

Zhongnan University of Economics and Law The Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (ZUEL; ) is a public university in Wuhan, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. ZUEL was established in 2000 with the merge of Central South University of Finance and Economics ...

and

Huazhong University of Science and Technology The Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST; ) is a public research university located in Guanshan Subdistrict, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei province, China. As a national key university directly affiliated to the Ministry of E ...

. He entered the workforce in 1970, and joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil ...

in February 1980. In February 1978, he was assigned to the Miaozihu Police Station as a police, where he was promoted to deputy director in February 1983. He served as deputy director of the Correctional Division of Shayang Agricultural Authority in June 1988, and two years later promoted to the director position. In March 1994, he became the deputy director of Hubei Provincial Prison Administration, rising to director in July 1997. In July 2000, he was appointed deputy director of Hubei Provincial Justice Department, and rose to become director in January 2003. In February 2008, he became executive vice president of , a post he kept until January 2013, when he was transferred to the neighboring

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

province and appointed president of , a position at vice-ministerial level.

Downfall

On 25 August 2019, he was put under investigation for alleged "serious violations of discipline and laws" by the

Central Commission for Discipline Inspection The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) is the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), tasked with enforcing internal rules and regulations and combating corruption and malfeasance in the pa ...

(CCDI), the party's internal disciplinary body, and the

National Supervisory Commission National Supervisory Commission of the People's Republic of China is the highest anti-corruption agency of the People's Republic of China, at the same administrative ranking as Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate. Its oper ...

, the highest anti-corruption agency of China. On November 29, his qualification for delegates to the 13th AnhuiPeople's Congress was terminated. On 22 January 2020, he was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and dismissed from public office. On February 16, prosecutors signed an arrest order for him. In March, he was indicted on suspicion of accepting bribes. On November 26, he stood trial at the Intermediate People's Court of Xiamen on charges of taking bribes. He was charged with accepting money and property worth over 71.79 million yuan ($11.14 million) personally or through others. According to the indictment, he allegedly took advantage of his various positions in both Hubei and Anhui between 1995 and 2019 to seek benefits for helping others obtain projects, case trial, personnel transfer and civil execution. On 14 September 2021, he received a sentence of 15 years in prison and fined of 5 million yuan ($0.776 million). The money and property that Zhang had received in the form of bribes, as well as any interest arising from them, will be turned over to the national treasury. Zhang said he agreed with the judgment and will not appeal to a higher court.

References

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