Overview

• The Changchun Intermediate People’s Court in Jilin handed Tang a death sentence suspended for two years after finding he took over 268 million yuan in bribes from 2007 to 2024.
• Court accounts and Xinhua say Tang confessed to accepting cash and property while using multiple posts to grant favors in business, projects and personnel matters.
• The judgment includes lifelong deprivation of political rights, full confiscation of personal assets and recovery of illicit gains to the national treasury.
• Tang was removed from office during an anti‑graft probe in mid‑2024 and was expelled from the Communist Party in November 2024 before trial proceedings.
• Reporting links the swift case to a broader campaign that has ensnared other senior figures, with comparisons to investigations of former defense ministers Li Shangfu and Wei Fenghe.