Fearing corruption, prosecutors are prepared to supervise the
50-billion-yuan relocation of the Shougang Group, said Wang
Jianping, vice-president of the Shijingshan District Procuratorate,
a local prosecuting organization.
Wang said prosecutor's supervision will help avoid the
occurrence of corruption and state assets infringement during the
relocation.
The Shougang Group, a major Beijing-based iron and steel
producer, has been ordered to phase out smelting operations in
Beijing and relocate most of its existing production facilities to
Caofeidian in Hebei
Province by 2008.
The relocation will cost 50 billion yuan and resettle 60,000
redundant workers.
The Shijingshan District Procuratorate began the Shougang Group
crime prevention campaign in 1999 and has spotted and dealt with 55
job-related crimes at the group, Wang said.
The most notorious of the 55 job-related criminals is Sun
Junxue, former director of the Shougang Group's trade department,
who received 880,000 yuan in bribes.
More than 7,000 cadres in Shougang Group have been under the
supervision of local prosecuting organ, so as to avoid them
committing job-related crimes, said Wang.
"The relocation of Shougang is a major measure to improve the
environmental quality of the capital, adjust its industrial
structure and realize comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable
economic and social development in the city," Vice Premier Zeng
Peiyan said last month.
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(Xinhua News Agency April 9, 2005)