Under investigation, Yangzhong Municipal Party Committee Secretary Zhang Dejun
On June 8, the Jiangsu Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced that Zhang Dejun, secretary of the Yangzhong Municipal Party Committee, was suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is currently under review and investigation.
Yangzhong is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhenjiang City. It is named because it is located in the Yangtze River. It consists of four river islands: Leigong Island, Taipingzhou, Xisha, and Zhongxinsha. It has a total area of 332 square kilometers, of which 228 square kilometers are land area. With a permanent population of 315,500, it is a nationally renowned "engineering electrical island" and "green energy island".
Zhang Dejun was born in Jurong, Jiangsu Province in July 1971. He worked in his hometown of Jurong and Jingkou District in his early years. Since September 2012, he has been promoted to work in Zhenjiang City and served as chairman and party secretary of the Municipal Transportation Industry Group.
In June 2016, Zhang Dejun served as the acting mayor of Yangzhong City. In January of the following year, he "returned from acting to full position" and took over as secretary of the municipal party committee in October 2020.
Public reports show that on the morning of June 6, he also led a team to visit Yangzhong City’s rice machine planting site, local grain reserve Co., Ltd. and other places to investigate the city’s summer harvest and planting work.
In addition, on June 4, he led municipal leading cadres to visit and study at the Zhenjiang Party Style and Integrity Warning Education Base. Zhang Dejun emphasized that to carry out warning education is to sound the alarm with the people and things around us.
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