On [date], according to the official website of the Guangdong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, "Nan Yue Qing Feng," Wang Youpeng, a member of the Party Group and Vice Chairman of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, is under investigation by the Guangdong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision for suspected serious disciplinary and legal violations.

First Financial News reporter learned from informed sources that Wang Youpeng was taken away during a recent visit to Guangzhou for a meeting of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. His investigation may be related to his tenure in the Shenzhen Planning and Land Resources Department.

Public information shows that Wang Youpeng had two stints as a leader in the planning and land department before being relieved of his administrative duties, totaling over a decade, including more than a year as the "head" of a municipal department.

According to public information, Wang Youpeng, male, born in month and year, is from Huanghua City, Hebei Province. He graduated from the Department of Architecture at Hunan University with a major in Architecture. In month and year, he began his career at the Second Institute of Shenzhen Architectural Design and Research Institute. In month and year, Wang Youpeng was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Building Regulations Enforcement Division of the Shenzhen Municipal Planning and Land Resources Bureau, officially stepping into a middle-level leadership position in the planning and land system.

From January 2000 to January 2009, Wang Youpeng served as a member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Shenzhen Municipal Planning Bureau. From January 2009 to January 2012, he served as a member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Shenzhen Municipal Planning and Land Resources Commission. In January 2012, Wang Youpeng concluded his first tenure of nearly 12 years in the planning and land resources sector, and was transferred to serve as a member of the Standing Committee and Deputy District Head of Longgang District, Shenzhen, later being promoted to the position of Standing Committee Member and Executive Deputy District Head.

From January 2010 to January 2019, he served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Shenzhen Municipal Government (at the bureau level). In January 2019, Wang Youpeng returned to the planning and land system, taking up the positions of Party Secretary and Director (Director) of the Shenzhen Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources (Municipal Oceanic Administration), thus creating a rare record of serving as the "top leader" of Shenzhen's planning and land department for over 10 consecutive years.

From the month and year, he served as the Party Secretary and Director of the newly established Shenzhen Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau until the end of the month when he was relieved of his duties.

Over the past one to two decades, the urban construction of Shenzhen City has advanced by leaps and bounds. At the same time, multiple corruption cases have occurred within the planning and land administration system. For example, Xie Youzhu, the former deputy director of the Bao'an Management Bureau of the Shenzhen Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau, was accused of using his position to benefit others in matters such as changing land use properties and adjusting plot floor area ratios between the years and, either alone or in collusion with others, illegally accepting a total of over ten million yuan in bribes.

The corruption cases of Lü Ruifeng, the former vice mayor of Shenzhen who was taken down, were also closely related to his long-term oversight of land planning, housing construction, and other related work. During this period, Wang Youpeng was disciplined for a major production safety incident that shocked the nation.

On the date, a landslide accident occurred at the Honggang Waste Soil Acceptance Site in Guangming New District, Shenzhen, resulting in the deaths of people, people missing, people injured, and direct economic losses of . billion yuan. The State Council investigation team concluded that Wang Youpeng, as the then Party Secretary and Director of the Shenzhen Municipal Commission of Planning and Land Resources, failed to earnestly implement the national laws and regulations related to planning and land, did not organize the investigation and handling of illegal land use as required, and did not supervise and guide the Guangming Administration of the Commission of Planning and Land Resources to issue location opinions and land use planning permits in accordance with the law, bearing significant leadership responsibility for the accident. It is recommended to give him a disciplinary warning.

On [specific date], Wang Youpeng was elected as the Vice Chairman of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the first session of the Seventh Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. On [specific date], the 22nd meeting of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress voted to remove Wang Youpeng from his position as Director of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources.

The reporter noted that Wang Youpeng's most recent public appearance was nearly a month ago. According to Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, from the 10th to the 12th, the Guangdong Provincial Political Consultative Conference research group conducted a joint research in Shenzhen to understand the common issues and development suggestions faced by specialized and sophisticated enterprises, accelerating the high-quality development of these enterprises. Wang Youpeng participated in the research as the vice chairman of the Shenzhen Municipal Political Consultative Conference.

Since the beginning of this year, multiple reports have surfaced in Shenzhen regarding the investigation or further handling of several former high-ranking officials. The earliest case was in [month], when Huang Min, a former Standing Committee member and Vice Mayor of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee, was investigated and subsequently expelled from the Party and removed from public office in [month]. Notably, Huang Min and Wang Youpeng were dismissed from their administrative positions on the same day. In [month], Wang Yi, a former Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Chairman of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was investigated; at the time, he had already retired for [number] years. In [month], Chen Rugui, who had served as the Mayor of Shenzhen and later as a Party组成员 and Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress, was sentenced to life imprisonment for bribery, stripped of political rights for life, and ordered to forfeit all personal property.