Sun Guangrui’s personal experience

Sun Guangrui was born in a poor peasant family in Qianyouzhao Village, Pingxiang County, Hebei Province on the first day of the eighth lunar month in 1910. In 1935, when the great revolution led by the Chinese Communists was at a low ebb, Sun Guangrui resolutely devoted himself to the revolutionary cause.

In April 1951, Sun Guangrui served as the Chief Prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of Hebei Province. This year, Sun Guangrui led the staff of the newly established Procuratorate to actively participate in the suppression of the counterrevolutionary movement and wrote a report to the Provincial Party Committee on problems in the implementation of policies during the movement, which attracted the attention of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government. At the end of 1951, a nationwide campaign against corruption, waste, and bureaucracy was launched, known as the "Three Antis" movement. In February 1952, large and medium-sized cities across the country launched a campaign against bribery, tax evasion, theft of state property, cutting corners, and theft of national economic intelligence, known as the "Five Antis" movement. In accordance with the spirit of the First National Judicial Work Conference, Sun Guangrui made it an important task for the Hebei Provincial Procuratorate to prosecute corruption cases involving state agency staff and economic crime cases against illegal capitalists.

On November 2, 1951, at the Third Party Congress of Hebei Province, Li Kecai and Zhao Ke, then deputy commissioners of the Tianjin Administrative Office, exposed the major scandals of Liu Qingshan, Secretary of the Tianjin Prefectural Committee, and Zhang Zishan, Commissioner of the Tianjin Administrative Office. The facts of corruption have attracted great attention from the central government. The Hebei Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government decided to form a five-member committee including Sun Guangrui to handle the major corruption cases of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan. Sun Guangrui served as the leader of one of the groups, responsible for inspecting the accounts of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan's Tianjin office. As the investigation deepened, it was discovered that the problems of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan were very serious. The Provincial Party Committee decided to establish a special investigation office in the Provincial Procuratorate, with Sun Guangrui in charge. The Special Investigation Office quickly discovered the facts of major corruption committed by Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan. From the time the case was revealed to the time it was handled, it only took two months and 20 days. The speed of handling the case and the high quality are rare. The investigation and handling of this case caused strong shock and huge repercussions at home and abroad.

During the ten-year "Cultural Revolution", my country's socialist legal system was severely damaged and the procuratorial organs were abolished. On June 12, 1978, the Hebei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to restore and rebuild the Hebei Provincial People's Procuratorate in accordance with the instructions of the central government, and it officially opened for business on July 1. In October 1978, Sun Guangrui was appointed deputy prosecutor general and deputy secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Hebei Provincial People's Procuratorate. On September 27, 1979, he served as acting prosecutor general and party secretary of the Hebei Provincial People's Procuratorate. On February 6, 1980, Sun Guangrui was elected as the Prosecutor General of the Hebei Provincial People's Procuratorate. At this time, Sun Guangrui was 71 years old.

In the first two years of the restoration and reconstruction of the procuratorial organs, Sun Guangrui devoted his main energy and focused on three tasks: First, focusing on institutional reconstruction and selection and deployment of cadres. By the end of 1978, 10 regional procuratorate branches in Shijiazhuang, Langfang, Chengde, Zhangjiakou, Xingtai, Handan, Cangzhou, Hengshui, Baoding, and Tangshan, two municipal procuratorates in Shijiazhuang and Tangshan, and 156 grassroots procuratorates were established. The number of prosecutors in the province reached 1,626. . The second is to implement policies and redress unjust, false and wrongly decided cases. From December 16 to 27, 1978, Sun Guangrui participated in the Seventh National Procuratorate Work Conference. At the meeting to convey the spirit of the meeting back to the province, Sun Guangrui emphasized that procuratorial organs at all levels in the province should closely focus on economic construction as the center to carry out procuratorial work and redress unjust, false and wrong cases as soon as possible to ensure the smooth progress of economic construction. During this period, a group of veteran cadres from the former Provincial Procuratorate who were mistakenly labeled as counterrevolutionaries and rightists returned to work in the Provincial Procuratorate. The third is to put forward the work idea of ??"building while working, and promoting construction through work", focusing on criminal prosecution and petition work, so as to promote the development of legal and discipline, economic, and reform-through-labour prosecutorial services. Starting in 1979, procuratorial organs at all levels in the province began to accept and investigate economic crime cases. That year, they handled 72 economic cases of various types, playing an important role of procuratorial organs in maintaining the normal socialist economic order and punishing corruption. , warmly welcomed by the broad masses of the people.

In 1980, Sun Guangrui proposed the working ideas of "the chief prosecutor handles cases" and "the chief prosecutor handles cases". The Provincial Procuratorate promptly summarized and promoted the "three determinations" (determining cases, determining quality, and determining time). The case-handling method and the case-handling method of "implementing fragmented responsibility and adhering to the responsibility system of case-handling positions". Very good results have been achieved in practice, and breakthroughs have been made in the investigation and handling of economic crime cases. That year, procuratorial organs at all levels in the province opened 625 cases and concluded 559 cases, many of which were major and important cases.

In 1982, Sun Guangrui went to the Qinhuangdao Municipal Procuratorate for investigation. The prosecutor general reported to him that a large number of chestnuts in the warehouse of the Provincial Foreign Trade Office in Qinhuangdao were rotten, resulting in huge economic losses, and the relevant responsible persons were suspected of dereliction of duty. Sun Guangrui immediately sent people to send relevant materials to the provincial party committee and provincial government for review. Provincial leaders instructed the Provincial Procuratorate to investigate the case and deal with those responsible in accordance with the law.

During the investigation and prosecution process, the relevant responsible persons sent people to the chestnut producing areas to issue false certificates, claiming that the chestnuts had spoiled in the producing areas, and reported the false situation to the provincial governor; on the other hand, they established an offensive and defensive alliance in an attempt to Avoiding guilt. In response to this situation, the prosecutors who handled the case went deep into Qianxi and Funing counties and found farmers selling chestnuts to verify the situation one by one. The local farmers revealed to the prosecutors the fact that relevant personnel of the Provincial Foreign Trade Office in Qinhuangdao had falsified certificates. The procuratorial organ verified that it was true, approved the arrest of relevant criminal suspects for dereliction of duty, and initiated public prosecutions.

The case had many twists and turns. When the Qinhuangdao Intermediate People's Court heard the case, individual leaders of the Provincial Foreign Trade Office in Qinhuangdao organized people to drive on the streets in cars and carry slogans, shouting the slogan "So-and-so is not guilty." At the same time, they sent false materials to relevant central departments in an attempt to muddy the waters and make the case unsolved. The Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Provincial Party Committee convened a special meeting to deal with the case carefully. At the meeting, some people commented on the criminal suspect's merits and believed that the suspect's merits outweighed his faults. Others said, "This case must be handled properly, with people on both sides." Sun Guangrui said resolutely: "We are not the masses on either side, we are the procuratorate, and what we want is to handle the case in accordance with the law!"

In the end, the court made a guilty verdict on the suspect in accordance with the law. Relevant leaders highly praised Sun Guangrui for his courage to adhere to principles and enforce the law impartially. Leading comrades who had unclear understanding of the crime of dereliction of duty also criticized Sun Guangrui for his inappropriate statements in handling the case.