Zhu Junyi (; born February 1951 in

Haining () is a county-level city in Zhejiang Province, China, and under the jurisdiction of Jiaxing. It is in the south side of Yangtze River Delta, and in the north of Zhejiang. It is to the southwest of central Shanghai, and east of Hangzhou, the p ...

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) was a government official in

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, China. Prior to his arrest during an investigation into

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in Shanghai in 2006, he had been in charge of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Labour and Social Security, Shanghai's municipal

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system.

Biography

Zhu attended the Changle Road 3rd Elementary School and Xiangli Middle School. In 1966, on leaving middle school, he joined the army in Xunke county,

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province. He returned to Shanghai in 1976, and joined the Huaihai Road production corps, rising rapidly through the ranks. The corps was renamed Shanghai Luwan District Spring Thunder Telecommunication factory. In 1983, when the factory performance made news in Shanghai by making a record profit of 1.4 million Yuan, he was declared a model labourer, and "Commando of the New

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". In 1985, Zhu became Assistant Commissioner of the Collective Enterprise Administrative Bureau in

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of Shanghai. In 1989, Zhu was promoted to Assistant Commissioner of the Collective Enterprise Administrative Bureau of Shanghai. In 1996, Zhu was made Assistant Director of the Shanghai Economics Committee. In 1998, he became head of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Labour and Social Security. He was removed from his post amidst allegations of

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, and misappropriation of funds.

Corruption allegations

He allegedly took bribes and was accused of having illegally loaned some 3.2 billion Yuan from the Shanghai Social Security Fund to Fuxi Investment Holding Co., a company owned by businessman and fellow

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(CPPCC) member Zhang Rongkun. Zhu is also implicated in the embezzlement of 16 billion Yuan from the fund between 1998 and 2006. He appears also to have obtained 50 million yuan for

Qiu Xiaohua Qiu may refer to: * Qiū (surname), Chinese surnames *Qiú (surname), Chinese surnames * Qiu County, in Hebei, China *Kǒng Qiū (), better known as Confucius Confucius ( ; zh, s=, p=Kǒng Fūzǐ, "Master Kǒng"; or commonly zh, s=, p=Kǒn ...

( 邱晓华), the former director of China's National Bureau of Statistics, which was intended for Qiu's long-time lover. Zhu and Qiu knew one another through Zhang Rongkun.

References

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Biography

Corruption allegations

See also

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