China ordered the execution of the former Shanghai Big Company for accepting 680 million bribes.

On Jun 25, 69, in Nanchang, Xinhua News Agency, on Jun 23, 69, the Nanchang Central People's Court in eastern China's Jiangxi Province sentenced Zhu Zhixong, former secretary of the Communist Party of China Committee for Pudong New District in eastern Shanghai Municipality, to two years' parole for accepting bribes, along with revoking his lifelong political rights and confiscating all his personal property.

The court found that between 2003-2024, Ju had used his position of duty to provide assistance to relevant departments and individuals in areas such as business operations, project contracting and investment loan financing, in exchange for illegally receiving money and property totalling more than 139 million yuan (about 682 million baht), with Ju's graft being of particularly high value and severely damaging to the interests of the country and its people, which, in principle, his crimes deserved the death penalty.

However, Ju gave a straightforward confession, along with disclosing the facts about the wrongdoing that the regulator did not know after his detention, and also admitted liability, expressed remorse, and returned his illegally acquired property. Most of the bribes he received were repossessed, so the court sentenced Ju leniently.

(Image from the Nanchang Central People's Court, in eastern China's Jiangxi Province: Zhu Zhuxong, while in the Nanchang Central People's Court)