Ling Zhengce is a former Chinese politician from Shanxi province.
10 Facts About Ling Zhengce
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From 2008 to 2014 Ling served as the vice-chairman of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and prior to that the director of Shanxi Development and Reform Commission.
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Ling Zhengce was then sentenced to twelve and a half years in prison.
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Ling Zhengce got involved in politics in October 1968 and joined the Chinese Communist Party in November 1973.
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Ling Zhengce initially worked at a hospital, and then was transferred to work as a labourer a sulphur mine.
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Between 1971 and 1982 Ling Zhengce worked for the party organization in Yuncheng, and subsequently for the party's General Office of Shanxi province.
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In 1984, Ling Zhengce graduated from Shanxi University, majoring in Chinese literature.
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Ling Zhengce spent much of the next decade working for confidential document classification in the provincial government, before being promoted in 1997 to become the deputy director of provincial grain distribution.
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On December 16,2016, Ling Zhengce was sentenced for 12-and-a-half years in prison in Changzhou Intermediate Court, for taking either directly or indirectly 16 million yuan in bribes from 2001 to 2014.
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Ling Zhengce Jihua was one of the top aides to former Communist Party general secretary Hu Jintao and served as the Vice-Chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the head of the United Front Work Department before he was tried for corruption, abuse of power, and bribery and then given a life sentence in prison.