Zhao Liping

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Zhao Liping
赵黎平
Vice-Chairman of the Inner Mongolia People's Political Consultative Conference
In office
February 2012 – January 2013
Preceded by Xiao Lisheng (肖黎声)
Succeeded by Guo Qijun (郭启俊)
Vice-Chairman of Inner Mongolia Government
In office
May 2010 – July 2012
Succeeded by Ma Ming (马明)
Head of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Public Security Bureau
In office
March 2005 – July 2012
Preceded by Zhu Guangkai (祝广垲)
Succeeded by Ma Ming
Personal details
Born August 1951 (age 64)
Yutian County, Hebei, China
Political party Communist Party of China (expelled)
Residence Hohhot, Inner Mongolia
Alma mater Inner Mongolia Radio & TV University
Chinese People's Public Security University
Central Party School of the Communist Party of China
PLA National Defense University
Occupation Politician, writer
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhao.

Zhao Liping (simplified Chinese: 赵黎平; traditional Chinese: 趙黎平; pinyin: Zhào Lípíng; born August 1951) is a former Chinese police chief and politician who spent most of his career in Inner Mongolia.[1] He served successively as the head of the region's Public Security Department, Vice-Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and Vice-Chairman of the regional political advisory body. Zhao was also a writer. He was arrested by police in the eastern Inner Mongolian city of Chifeng in March 2015 on charges of "intentional homicide" (i.e., first-degree murder).[2] He was the first known provincial-level official to be charged with intentional homicide in the history of the People's Republic of China.[3]

Life and career[edit]

Zhao was born and raised in Yutian County, Hebei. Zhao entered Inner Mongolia Radio & TV University in September 1982, majoring in Chinese language, where he graduated in October 1985. He went down to the countryside in Jilin province, before taking on a job as a worker at a printing factory.[3] He also studied at Chinese People's Public Security University, Central Party School of the Communist Party of China, and PLA National Defense University as a part-time student.

During the Cultural Revolution, he was a sent-down youth in Horqin Left Middle Banner, Jilin province.

Zhao joined the China Writers Association in 1998.

He was appointed as a policeman in public security office and over a period of 40 years worked his way up to head the Public Security Department of Inner Mongolia, essentially the region's police chief.[4] During his term as police chief, he instituted programs to speed up response times to emergency calls, and vowed to shorten wait times to "30 seconds within the city, one minute in the suburbs, and as fast a possible in the rural regions."[3]

As regional police chief, Zhao also concurrently became Vice-Chairman of Inner Mongolia Government in May 2010, and was re-elected in February 2012.[5]

In July 2012 he was appointed the Vice-Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a position he held until January 2013, when he retired.[6] When he departed his position as regional police chief, he was given a standing ovation from his police colleagues that lasted several minutes.[3]

Zhao also had a moderately successful career as a writer, authoring lengthy novels, poems, and award-winning screenplays. He penned works in a wide range of topics, from murder mysteries to his recollections of trips to Hong Kong and Russia. His profile was featured on the China Writer's Association.

Murder investigation[edit]

On March 20, 2015, at approximately 9:30pm in the city of Chifeng, Zhao was driving a black Audi sedan with Ordos license plates pursuing a white vehicle with a woman inside.[3] The woman, surnamed "Li", was born in 1988 and was 27 years old at the time of the incident, and reportedly had "intimate relations" with Zhao.[7] The woman had called the emergency police number 110 that day, saying "Zhao Liping is out to kill me," before hanging up abruptly.[3] Zhao was said to have caught up with the woman inside the Baihe Xincheng (百合新城) residential neighbourhood of Chifeng and shot the woman in the head, killing her,[3] then put her corpse in the trunk of his car.[3] Zhao then allegedly proceeded to a local garbage dump where he attempted to bury her body amid mounds of rubbish. It was said that ten hours earlier, Zhao had visited the dump, ostensibly to plan for the murder.[3] It was unclear how Zhao obtained a gun, as it was illegal for retired police officers to carry firearms.

In the early morning of March 21, Zhao was detained by police in Heshigten Banner. On March 22, Zhao was arrested on suspicion of murder.[8] Zhao did not resist arrest and reportedly still carried blood stains at the time of his arrest. Zhao was the 100th high-ranking "tiger" being investigated or charged with a crime since the anti-corruption campaign in China began in 2012, though strictly speaking he was not being investigated for corruption.[9]

A former subordinate of Zhao, surnamed Zhang, said about Zhao's alleged crimes, "he was a great guy, not arrogant at all. He was calm, truthful, self-assured. It perplexes me what made him do such a stupid thing."[3]

Expelled from the CPC[edit]

On July 31, 2015, Zhao Liping was expelled from the Communist Party.[10]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Former vice chairman of Inner Mongolia CPPCC Zhao Liping involving intentional homicide in custody". 163.COM. March 21, 2015. 
  2. ^ "内蒙古政协原副主席赵黎平涉故意杀人被羁押". 163.COM (in Chinese). 2015-03-22. 
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "赵黎平作案时所开车辆疑为套牌车 枪击被害人头部". Xinjing News (Chinanews). March 27, 2015.  Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "zhaoli" defined multiple times with different content (see ) (see the ).
  4. ^ "打虎满百:内蒙政协原副主席赵黎平涉杀人被羁押(图)". Ifeng (in Chinese). 2015-03-22. 
  5. ^ "赵黎平被任命为内蒙古自治区政府副主席". People.COM (in Chinese). 2010-05-29. 
  6. ^ Sumel Sarker (March 22, 2015). "Ex-police chief detained for death of a woman in China". Nirapadnews. 
  7. ^ "獨家:趙黎平與女過夜槍殺焚尸 曾到拋尸地踩點". Sina News. 
  8. ^ "内蒙古政协原副主席涉故意杀人,三大疑团待解". Sina (in Chinese). 2015-03-22. 
  9. ^ "100th high-ranking 'tiger' exposed". Chinadaily. March 22, 2015. 
  10. ^ "内蒙古自治区政协原副主席赵黎平严重违纪违法被开除党籍". 2015-07-31. Retrieved 2015-09-11. 
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