On the morning of October 28th, the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the Central Propaganda Department and the Shandong Provincial Supervision Commission announced that Zhao Changqing, the former party secretary and former vice chairman of the China Calligraphers Association, was suspected of serious violation of discipline and law, and was currently under disciplinary review by the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the Central Propaganda Department and supervision investigation by the Shandong Provincial Supervision Commission.

According to the public resume, Zhao Changqing is 66 years old. He joined the work in December 1970 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in November 1971. He has served as deputy secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Committee, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Party Group of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles. In November 2002, he served as the director of the domestic liaison department of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles; In December 2005, he served as Party Secretary, Resident Vice Chairman and Secretary General of China Calligraphers Association; In April 2014, he served as the vice chairman of China Calligraphers Association; In December 2015, he served as a consultant of China Calligraphers Association; In 2018, Zhao Changqing retired at the age of 65. On October 15th, Zhao Changqing attended the opening ceremony of the National Exhibition of Painting, Calligraphy and Photography of Transportation Workers, which was also Zhao Changqing’s public appearance before his fall.

Zhao Changqing (data map)

Zhao Changqing’s works

As the vice chairman of China Calligraphers Association and a well-known person in the calligraphy field, Zhao Changqing’s investigation has also aroused people’s concern about anti-corruption in the cultural circle.

Zhao Changqing once published an oral article "Calligrapher Zhao Changqing: Write Well and Be a Good Person", which said: I was born in the countryside, grew up in the county, worked and lived in a big city, and I have always been attached to calligraphy. In the northeast words, I have been "walking with words" in my life. Now, I have become a calligrapher, and I am content! A person, you can’t get everything. If you take the right path and realize your own life value, it is your greatest happiness. It is my childhood dream to be fascinated by calligraphy and send love poems, which is the greatest pleasure in my life. Although calligraphy is a "road of no return", I must stick to it.

However, as early as 2015, Zhao Changqing was reported by his real name. The article lists ten channels for Zhao Changqing to collect money through the platform of China Calligraphers Association. Such as "selling words openly to collect money" and "taking advantage of the opportunity of calligraphers to join the calligraphers’ association, accepting them ‘ Buy a road ’ Collect money "and so on.

In fact, there are not a few "official calligraphers" who have been investigated and dealt with in anti-corruption work in recent years. Judging from the existing cases, some fallen officials once had an "elegance addiction" in calligraphy, but in the quagmire of corruption, the original normal hobby has become an "elegance bribe".

Jin Suidong (data map)

Jin Suidong’s works

On February 3, 2019, Jin Suidong, former deputy secretary and vice chairman of the Henan Provincial Political Consultative Conference, was expelled from the Party. One of the contents in the circular issued by the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection is "selling my calligraphy works at a high price". It is worth noting that "selling my calligraphy works at a high price" is placed under the problem of abuse of power. After the erosion of power and money transactions, the original normal calligraphy price may become "sky-high", but it has deviated from the essence of art. In July, 2019, Zhang Yongle, the former director of Shangqiu Municipal Government Office in Zhengzhou, was investigated. He was a well-known local calligrapher.

Wei Chuanzhong (data map)

Wei Chuanzhong’s works

Wei Chuanzhong, a member of the former Party Group and Deputy Director of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, who was "double-opened" on September 7, 2019, is very fond of calligraphy and was once a member of the China Calligraphers Association. Before his downfall, he was quite active in the calligraphy field both at home and abroad, and he also published Wei Chuanzhong’s Calligraphy Collection, Wei Chuanzhong’s Calligraphy and Chinese Studies in Mo Yun — — Wei Chuanzhong’s Selected Works of Famous Sentences in Calligraphy and Chinese Studies and many other works. On November 24, 2018, China Excellent Family Style Family Training — — Wei Chuanzhong et al. Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition was held in Zhejiang Province. In his speech at the opening ceremony, Wei Chuanzhong said: "If everyone can take the traditional culture of clean government as the goal, our society will be a harmonious society, a positive society, an honest society and a legal society."

There is no forbidden zone, no time limit and no dead angle in anti-corruption, and the art of calligraphy cannot be defiled. If the atmosphere of corruption erodes the cultural circles, it will inevitably have a bad influence on artistic creation. Zhao Changqing’s case embodies the clear attitude of the Party and the state that greed must be countered and corruption must be eliminated. This is a wake-up call for corrupt officials who are still lucky. In the face of party discipline and state law, no one can be an exception, and the party and the country will surely win this anti-corruption struggle.

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