Hu Changqing

Hu Changqing (simplified Chinese: 胡长清; 24 August 1948 – 8 March 2000) was a Chinese politician who served as vice governor of Jiangxi. In 2000, he was terminated from employment, sentenced to death for bribery and corruption, and then executed via firing squad. It is alleged that part of the reason Hu was executed was because he criticized Jiang Zemin, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party at the time. Hu thus became the first deputy provincial cadre sentenced to be executed for corruption since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Hu Changqing had a son named Hu Wei. Hu Changqing once purchased several fake graduation certificates from a Peking University staff member, falsely claiming that Hu obtained degrees there. Moreover, Hu would use false documents for flying on airplanes and staying in hotels.