Guo Yipin (; born September 1962) is a Chinese politician from

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Province, serving as the Vice-Mayor of

Luoyang Luoyang is a city located in the confluence area of Luo River (Henan), Luo River and Yellow River in the west of Henan province. Governed as a prefecture-level city, it borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the east, Pingdingshan to the ...

since February 2014. He was previously the County Governor and Communist Party Secretary of Yichuan County. Guo disappeared from public view in July 2014 but was located and arrested by police in

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several months later. Guo was a '' luoguan''; i.e., his children and wife reside abroad while he works in China.

Career

Guo was born and raised in

Luoning County Luoning County () is a county in the west of Henan province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Luoyang. Administrative divisions Eleven towns: * Chengguan (), Shangge (), Xiayu (), Hedi (), Dongsong (), Xin ...

. He graduated from

Henan Agricultural University Henan Agricultural University () is a public university in Zhengzhou, China. It was established in 1912 as Henan Public Agricultural Major School. The school area occupies approximately 144000 square meters. The university established inter ...

in 1986, majoring in economic management in agriculture. He became involved in politics in September 1982 and joined the

Communist Party of China 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 June 1983. Beginning in 1981, he served in several posts in

, including Secretary of the Communist Youth League in Luoning. In March 1998 he was transferred to Luanchuan County as Vice County Governor, and served until March 2003. Then he served as a Standing Committee member and the Minister of Organization Department of Luanchuan County. In July 2005, he was appointed the Deputy Communist Party Secretary, he remained in that position until November 2007, when he was transferred to Yichuan County and appointed the County Governor and Deputy Party Secretary. In March 2009, he was elevated to the Party Secretary of Yichuan County. In February 2014, Guo was promoted to become the Vice-Mayor of

. In late July 2014, Guo asked for time off to "take his mother for medical treatment" in Beijing. He was last seen on July 31 participating in a local flood prevention program in

. He could no longer be reached a few days later. On September 15, 2014, Chinese media reported that he was missing and his wife and children have emigrated to a foreign country. Police began investigating Guo's case on September 16. Guo was found by police in an apartment near a pottery market in

on October 6, 2014. He was paying rent of 800 yuan (~$135) a month for his apartment, cooked his own meals, watched the news twice a day, and did not go outside very often. He told his landlord that he was in Changsha accompanying his child, who he claimed was going to school in the city. On August 30, 2017, he was eventually sentenced to a 14-year jail.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Guo, Yipin 1962 births Living people People's Republic of China politicians from Henan Chinese Communist Party politicians from Henan Political office-holders in Henan Henan Agricultural University alumni Politicians from Luoyang