Guo Youming (; born December 1956) is a former Chinese politician from

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 ...

province. He served as the Party Secretary of

Yichang Yichang (), alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China. It is the third largest city in the province after the capital, Wuhan and the prefecture-level city Xiangyang, by urban populati ...

in Hubei province between 2008 and 2011, and the Vice-Governor of Hubei from 2011 to 2014. In 2013, he was investigated for "serious disciplinary violations", a phrase usually denoting corruption, and subsequently expelled from the

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(CCP).

Biography

Guo was born in Suizhou,

in December 1956. Resumption of University Entrance Examination in 1977, Guo entered

Wuhan University Wuhan University (WHU; ) is a public research university in Wuhan, Hubei. The university is sponsored by the Ministry of Education. Wuhan university was founded as one of the four elite universities in the early republican period of China and i ...

in February 1978, majoring in water conservancy engineering, where he graduated in January 1982. After graduation, he worked in Hubei as an officer. Guo got involved in politics in January 1982 and he joined the CCP in May 1985. In June 2000 he was promoted to become the Party Vice-Secretary of Yichang, a position he held until February 2008. Guo served as the Mayor of Yichang between July to March 2008. In February 2008, Guo was elevated to the Party Secretary of Yichang. In November 2011, Guo studied at

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. In August 2011, Guo was promoted to become the Vice-Governor of Hubei.

Downfall

In November 2013, Guo was being investigated by the

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for "serious violations of laws and regulations". On 9 January 2014, Guo was dismissed from his position for corruption. On 21 April 2014, Guo was expelled from the CCP; his case was handed to the

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Intermediate People's Court in Henan province, where he was charged with bribery. The court found Guo guilty of taking more than 23.8 million yuan (US$3.70 million) in bribes, and sentenced him to 15 years in jail on 9 December 2015.

References

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