The Central Discipline Inspection Commission on October 30 disclosed that 'Li Xiaobao,
former secretary of the party group and director of the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Culture
and Tourism, was "double-opened". It said, "Li Xiaobao lost his ideals and beliefs, betrayed
the "two safeguards", engaged in "seven possessions", organized "small circles" and "small
gangs", implemented major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, made
discounts, made flexible arrangements, and failed to implement comprehensive and strict
governance of the party". It accused him of "Disregarding the interests of the masses, engaging
in formalism and bureaucracy; ignoring the spirit of the eight central regulations, accepting
gifts and gifts in violation of regulations, accepting banquets, travel and entertainment
arrangements that may affect the fair execution of official duties; Money and sex transactions;
greed, collusion between officials and businessmen, large-scale power and money transactions,
and illegal acceptance of huge amounts of property". It said, "Li Xiaobao seriously violated the
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party's political discipline, the spirit of the eight central regulations, organizational discipline,
integrity discipline, mass discipline, work discipline, and life discipline” and had been expelled
from the party.
(Comment: This is probably the first political verdict to mention the "two safeguards" after
they were included in the Party Charter at the just concluded 20th Party Congress. Li Xiaobao
was born in August 1968, in Yongxing, Hunan, obtained a doctoral degree and started working
in July 1988, and joined the Communist Party of China in January 1995. From July 1995 to
March 2000, successively served as cadre of the Propaganda Department of the Party
Committee of Capital Normal University, secretary of the Youth League Committee, and
member of the school's Party Committee.)
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