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Скандал в китайском атомпроме
Добрый день!
Президент China National Nuclear Corp. Кан Жисинь находится под следствием со стороны партийных дисциплинарных органов за "серьезное нарушение партийных правил". В чем заключается нарушение непонятно. Но подчеркивается, что на планах развития отрасли не отразится. Странно как то - если бы была коррупция, то, видимо, так бы и сказали, и расследование было бы не со стороны партийных органов, а со стороны общественной безопасности.
China Top Nuclear Power Official Under Investigation (Update2)
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By Bloomberg News
Aug. 5 (Bloomberg) -- China’s top nuclear power official is under investigation, becoming the latest senior public figure targeted in government probes.
Kang Rixin, president of China National Nuclear Corp., “seriously violated party rules,” the official Xinhua News Agency said on its Web site today, citing the Communist Party’s central discipline committee and without giving details. Chen Xibo, the Beijing-based spokesman of the country’s biggest operator of nuclear reactors didn’t pick up calls to his office or mobile phone.
China is stepping up its fight against graft as the government attempts to create enough jobs and boost economic growth to allay public discontent. The mayor of Shenzhen, the southern city bordering Hong Kong, was dismissed in June while Chen Tonghai, a former chairman of China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., the nation’s second-biggest oil company, was given a suspended death penalty for bribery last month.
“This is another case that shows Beijing has strengthened investigations on violation of party rules since the beginning of this year,” Willy Wo-Lap Lam, adjunct professor of history at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said by mobile phone from the city.
China National Nuclear’s Kang was being investigated by the discipline committee that elected him a member in 2002, according to a biography on the People’s Daily Web site.
China’s Nuclear Expansion
Born in 1953 in Datong in the northern province of Shanxi, Kang joined the Communist Party in 1982 and was appointed head of China National Nuclear in September 2003, according to the biography.
Kang is tasked with leading the expansion of China’s nuclear power industry at a time when the world’s second-biggest energy user seeks to cut emissions and boost the use of alternative fuels.
U.S.-based Westinghouse Electric Co. signed a contract two years ago to provide four AP1000 nuclear units to China, a technology used by half of the world’s operating reactors.
China National Nuclear plans to spend about 400 billion yuan ($59 billion) building nuclear power plants in the 15 years through 2020, Kang said in 2005.
The company arranged 350 billion yuan of credit from eight domestic banks in December, it said last month. Kang’s last public appearance was at an energy conference in Beijing on July 4, when he told reporters China National is in discussions to develop uranium resources in six countries including Kazakhstan and Algeria.
“The investigation is not likely to affect the nation’s plan and prospects to develop nuclear power industry, which is a firm national policy,” said Lam at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Past Cases
China’s anti-graft investigations have snared some of the country’s highest-ranking officials in the past, including former parliament vice chairman Cheng Kejie, executed in 2000 for accepting $4.8 million of bribes. Former drug regulator Zheng Xiaoyu was executed in 2007 after he was convicted of taking bribes to approve medicines, while Chen Liangyu was fired as Shanghai’s party boss in 2006 on corruption charges.
Shenzhen’s Xu was being investigated for alleged links to Huang Guangyu, once China’s wealthiest man and chairman of the country’s largest electronics retailer Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings Ltd., the South China Morning Post said June 6, citing unidentified people.
Huang was replaced as Gome’s chairman in November after Beijing police began investigating the billionaire, ranked as China’s second-richest man by Forbes Magazine last year, for unspecified “economic crimes.”
Chen, the former Sinopec chairman, took “bribes to help others, including his mistress, made unlawful profits and led a ‘corrupt life’,” Xinhua reported last month, citing the legal authorities.
-- Wang Ying in Beijing and Winnie Zhu in Shanghai. Editors: Ang Bee Lin, Clyde Russell.
To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story: Ying Wang in Beijing at +86-10-6649-7562 or ywang30@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: August 5, 2009 05:44 EDT
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