Issuing agency: China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry
Column: Statistics regulations and policies learning materials
source: https://www.cansi.org.cn/cms/document/19758.html
In June 2024, Li Shisong, the former deputy governor of Yunnan Province and the former secretary of the Qujing Municipal Party Committee, was investigated for serious violations of disciplines and laws. March 18, 2025, Li Shisong's predecessor, Li Wenrong, the former secretary of the Qujing Municipal Party Committee, was announced to be under investigation. Li Shisong has served in Yunnan Province for a long time and was the mayor of Qujing. In November 2021, he became a member of the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial Committee. Later, he concurrently served as Secretary of the Qujing Municipal Party Committee. In December 2024, he was transferred to Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Provincial Government and resigned as Secretary of the Qujing Municipal Party Committee. Among Li Shisong's specific violations of disciplines and laws, one is worthy of attention - incorrect performance of duties and negligence in statistical falsification.
According to the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and National Supervision Commission on June 4, 2021, according to the Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision: The Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision conducted a careful investigation and verification of the clues related to statistical violations of laws and disciplines in Zhanyi District, Qujing City, transferred by the Provincial Bureau of Statistics.
After investigation, it was found that the statistical data of industrial and fixed asset investment above designated size in Zhanyi District, Qujing City were seriously inaccurate. The total output value of 29 industrial enterprises above designated size and the fixed asset investment statistics of 15 projects that were randomly inspected were seriously inaccurate. Zhanyi District Industrial Information and Technology Bureau and Zhanyi District Development and Reform Bureau seriously interfered with enterprises' independent reporting of statistical data; relevant departments and towns in Zhanyi District filled in and reported fixed asset investment statistical data on their behalf; relevant staff of Zhanyi District Industrial Information and Technology Bureau obstructed law enforcement inspections; individual enterprises in Zhanyi District obstructed statistical law enforcement inspections; Zhanyi District Committee and District Government issued documents that violated the spirit of the "Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China". In this regard, the District Committee, The district government should assume overall leadership responsibilities; the leaders of the Qujing Municipal Government in charge of statistics, industry, development and reform neglected supervision in their work, prevented and punished statistical falsification, failed to implement the responsibility system for falsification, failed to perform management and supervision duties, and were responsible for dereliction of duty and oversight for serious statistical violations of discipline and law in Zhanyi District.
In accordance with the "Regulations of the Communist Party of China on Accountability", the "Regulations of the Communist Party of China on Disciplinary Punishments", the "Regulations of the Communist Party of China on the Supervision and Enforcement of Discipline Inspection Organs", the "Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China" and other relevant party discipline laws and regulations, and in accordance with the authority of cadre management, the relevant units and persons responsible for statistical violations of discipline and law in Zhanyi District, Qujing City are held accountable.
The Zhanyi District Party Committee and the Party Group of the District Government were notified of accountability and ordered to make a written inspection to the Qujing Municipal Party Committee; the Zhanyi District Statistics Bureau Party Group, the Zhanyi District Development and Reform Bureau Party Group, and the Zhanyi District Industrial Information and Technology Bureau Party Group were notified of accountability and ordered to make a written inspection.
Comrade Zhong Yu, the deputy mayor of Qujing Municipal Government, was admonished and held accountable; Comrade Liu Benfang, then secretary of the Zhanyi District Party Committee and now deputy mayor of Qujing City, was given a serious warning within the party. Comrade Li Jinlin, then mayor of Zhanyi District and now secretary-general of Qujing Municipal Government, was given a serious warning within the party; Comrade Ye Xiong, then executive deputy director of Zhanyi District and in charge of statistics, deputy director of Zhanyi District, and Comrade Zhao Ming, who was in charge of industry, were all given serious warnings within the party. All made organizational adjustments; Comrade Zhang Qinghua, member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Qujing Municipal Statistics Bureau, Comrade Hualiang Hualiang, Deputy Director of the Qujing Municipal Bureau of Statistics, Comrade Huang Ling, Deputy Director of the Qujing Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Comrade Wu Shunquan, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Qujing Municipal Development and Reform Commission, were all given intra-party warnings; Comrade Dai Liming, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Qujing Municipal Bureau of Statistics, Comrade Cai Liuliang, executive deputy head of Zhanyi District and in charge of statistical work, and Comrade Li Xueqing, member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of Qujing Development and Reform Commission, encouraged accountability. At the same time, other responsible persons were held accountable.
The Yunnan Provincial Bureau of Statistics imposed administrative penalties on 24 enterprises (units) in Zhanyi District, Qujing City, for statistical violations, with a total fine of 735,000 yuan; and identified and publicized 11 enterprises with serious statistical dishonesty.
The Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision pointed out that statistics is an important and comprehensive basic work for economic and social development, and statistical data is an important basis for national macro-control and scientific decision-making management. Under the high-pressure situation of "zero tolerance" to investigate and deal with falsified statistical data, Zhanyi District of Qujing City still has statistical violations of disciplines and laws, causing serious adverse effects. Party committees (party groups) at all levels and party members and cadres must learn lessons deeply, draw inferences from one example, and draw lessons from other cases. It is necessary to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches and instructions on statistical work, unswervingly implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on statistical work, and the requirements of the provincial party committee and provincial government, strictly abide by political disciplines and political rules, firmly establish a correct view of performance and development, form a statistical ecological environment that does not dare, cannot, and do not want to falsify, and ensure that statistical data truly, accurately and comprehensively reflects the actual economic and social development of Yunnan. Discipline inspection and supervision agencies at all levels must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", achieve the political height of "two safeguards", deeply understand the significance of preventing and punishing statistical fraud, strengthen integration with statistical supervision, and promote the formation of synergy between discipline inspection and supervision and statistical supervision. Party committees, governments and functional departments that have poor leadership in statistical work and neglect their duties must be punished. Responsible departments and personnel who are directly involved in statistical fraud should be held accountable seriously, and typical cases should be notified and exposed to strengthen warning and deterrence. It is necessary to deeply analyze the underlying causes of typical cases of statistical fraud, actively use disciplinary inspection recommendations or supervision recommendations, urge local and statistical agencies to draw inferences from one example, and improve the system and mechanism to prevent and punish statistical fraud, so as to promote the good start of the "14th Five-Year Plan" with more powerful guarantees.