10 Facts About Cheng Weigao

Cheng Weigao was a Chinese politician, best known for his term as the Party Secretary of Hebei province between 1993 and 1998.

Cheng Weigao followed his parents to neighboring Changzhou in his teenage years.

Cheng Weigao entered the Communist Youth League organization in Changzhou in 1949, and joined the Chinese Communist Party about a year later.

Cheng Weigao served as the Party Secretary of Nanjing between February 1984 and July 1987, and became a member of the provincial Party Standing Committee.

Cheng Weigao was then Governor of Henan between 1988 and July 1990.

Cheng Weigao served as the provincial party chief until 1998, when he began serving as Chairman of the provincial People's Congress.

In January 2003, Cheng Weigao resigned as Chairman of the Hebei People's Congress and immediately headed back to Changzhou.

Cheng Weigao then lived in a mansion-complex named Yuyuan for the remainder of his life.

Cheng Weigao was not charged with any criminal wrongdoing, but was demoted one level from full provincial status to sub-provincial level.

Until the corruption case of Hebei party chief Zhou Benshun in 2015, Cheng Weigao was the only Hebei party leader in history to have been accused of corruption-related offenses by the party's top disciplinary body, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.