Office1: | General Manager of China Huadian Corporation | ||||
Term Start1: | June 2008 | ||||
Term End1: | November 2013 | ||||
Predecessor1: | Cao Peixi | ||||
Successor1: | Li Qingkui | ||||
Office2: | Vice-Vhairman of Shenhua Group | ||||
Term Start2: | October 2006 | ||||
Term End2: | June 2008 | ||||
Office3: | Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Shanxi | ||||
Term Start3: | June 2003 | ||||
Term End3: | October 2006 | ||||
1Blankname3: | Communist Party Secretary | ||||
1Namedata3: | Tian Chengping | ||||
Office4: | Communist Party Secretary of Taiyuan | ||||
Term Start4: | September 2001 | ||||
Term End4: | January 2006 | ||||
Predecessor4: | Hou Wujie | ||||
Successor4: | Shen Weichen | ||||
Office5: | Vice Governor of Shanxi | ||||
Term Start5: | July 2001 | ||||
Term End5: | November 2001 | ||||
Governor5: | Liu Zhenhua | ||||
Office6: | Vice-Chairman of Inner Mongolia | ||||
Term Start6: | January 1997 | ||||
Term End6: | July 2001 | ||||
1Blankname6: | Chairman | ||||
1Namedata6: | Uliji→Yun Bulong→Uyunqimg | ||||
Office7: | Communist Party Secretary of Yih Ju League | ||||
Term Start7: | January 1995 | ||||
Term End7: | October 1996 | ||||
Predecessor7: | Chen Qihou | ||||
Successor7: | Xing Yun | ||||
Office8: | Mayor of Yih Ju League | ||||
Term Start8: | May 1993 | ||||
Term End8: | January 1995 | ||||
Predecessor8: | Hu Zhi'an | ||||
Successor8: | Xing Yun (politician) | ||||
Yun Gongmin | |||||
Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||
Birth Place: | Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China | ||||
Party: | Chinese Communist Party (expelled; 1979-2020) | ||||
Alma Mater: | Tsinghua University | ||||
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Yun Gongmin (; born September 1950) is a retired Chinese politician of Mongol ethnicity. He entered the workforce in August 1968, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in January 1979. He was investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the party's internal disciplinary body, and the National Supervisory Commission, the highest anti-corruption agency of China, in October 2019. He retired in November 2013 after five years as the deputy Communist Party Secretary and general manager of China Huadian Corporation, one of China's largest power companies, between 2008 and 2013.[1] [2]
Yun was born in September 1950. During the Down to the Countryside Movement, he was a sent-down youth in Gucheng Township of Togtoh County. From 1971 to 1975 he was a worker at a transportation company in Hohhot. In 1975 he was accepted to Tsinghua University, majoring in automobile making, where he graduated in 1979.
After graduation, he involved in politics. He took the role of Inner Mongolia government's vice-chairman in January 1997 and was transferred to Shanxi province as vice-governor in July 2001.[3] He concurrently served as Communist Party Secretary of Taiyuan between September 2001 and January 2006. In June 2003 he was elevated to deputy Communist Party Secretary of Shanxi, a position he held until October 2006. From October 2006 to June 2008 he was vice chairman and deputy Party Branch Secretary of Shenhua Group, a state-owned mining and energy company. He became general manager and deputy Party Branch Secretary of China Huadian Corporation in June 2008, serving in the post until he retirement in November 2013.
He was a delegate to the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the Standing Committee of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
On October 24, 2019, he has been placed under investigation for serious violations of laws and regulations, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said in a statement on its website, without elaborating.[4] [5]
On September 30, 2020, he was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and removed from public office.[6] He was under arrest on suspicion of taking bribes in the following month.[7] In November, he has been indicted on suspicion of accepting bribes.[8]
Yun's former boss Li Qingkui, a former Party Branch Secretary and chairman of China Southern Power Grid, one of China's largest regional grid operators, was placed on two-year probation within the Party .[9] [10]
On October 9, 2022, he was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting more than 468 million yuan ($70.2 million) in bribes by the Changchun Intermediate People's Court, and will face a life imprisonment without any possibility of commutation or parole after the two-year reprieve.[11] [12]