On May 31, the official website of the State Supervisory Commission of the Central Discipline Commission showed that the Beijing Discipline Commission publicly reported four typical cases of illegal eating and drinking. Among them, the first notification is "Chang Yongchun, former party secretary and chairman of Beijing Urban Construction Group Co., Ltd., accepts banquets in private clubs that may affect the fair execution of official duties".
The circular pointed out that from 2021 to 2024, Chang Yongchun received many banquets arranged by private entrepreneurs in private clubs and drank high-end drinks. Chang Yongchun also had other serious violations of discipline and law, was expelled from the party, dismissed from public office, and suspected crimes were transferred to the procuratorial organs for examination and prosecution according to law. Before
this announcement, Chang Yongchun had spread the news of "being taken away by relevant departments" in August 2024. However, since then, the official did not inform Chang Yongchun of the news of the investigation. According to
public information, Chang Yongchun was born in December 1971, Han nationality, born in Liaoning Province, with a university degree and a senior economist.
Chang Yongchun has worked in the construction industry for many years. From August 1994 to March 2016, Chang Yongchun successively served as budgeter, deputy manager of Tuqiao Project Department, deputy manager of the First Project Department of Oriental Plaza, deputy manager of the Fourteenth Project Department, special assistant to manager, chief accountant, chief economist, deputy general manager, general manager, director and deputy secretary of the Party Committee in Beijing Third Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. From March
2016 to April 2021, Chang Yongchun served as the deputy general manager of Beijing Construction Engineering Group; in April 2021, Chang Yongchun served as the deputy party secretary, director and general manager of Beijing Construction Engineering Group, and concurrently served as the executive director of Beijing Municipal Road and Bridge Group (Guangzhou) Construction Co., Ltd. In July
2023, Beijing Urban Construction Group issued a notice on the change of chairman, according to the decision of the Beijing Municipal People's Government, Chang Yongchun was appointed chairman of Beijing Urban Construction Group.
Chang Yongchun served as chairman of Beijing Urban Construction Group for more than a year. In September 2024, Beijing Urban Construction Group held a cadre meeting to announce the decision of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government on the appointment of the main leaders of Beijing Urban Construction Group: Li Weidong was appointed Party Secretary and Chairman of Beijing Urban Construction Group Co., Ltd.
Beijing Urban Construction Group is a leading enterprise in the construction industry in Beijing, with super qualification for general contracting of housing construction projects and highway projects. It has nine major businesses, including urban construction projects, urban construction real estate, urban construction design, urban construction gardens, urban construction real estate, urban construction capital, urban construction cultural tourism, urban construction international and urban construction services, from pre-investment planning to post-service operation. Create a complete industrial chain of upstream and downstream linkage, and strive to transform and upgrade to an "internationally renowned comprehensive service provider of urban construction".
Beijing Urban Construction Group is one of the "Top 500 Chinese Enterprises" and one of the "ENR Global and International Engineering Contractors". It has won the honorary titles of "China's Most Influential Enterprise", "Beijing's Top Ten Most Influential Enterprises", "National Excellent Construction Enterprise", "National Advanced Unit of Ideological and Political Work", "National Advanced Enterprise of Enterprise Culture Construction in Construction System". It has total assets of more than 350 billion yuan, 28 wholly-owned and holding subsidiaries, including one A-share listed company and two H-share listed companies.
The Beijing Urban Construction Group has built the Beijing Daxing International Airport, the CPC History Exhibition Hall, the National Stadium, the National Grand Theatre, the National Museum, the National Indoor Stadium, the Chinese National Studies Center, the Beijing Olympic Basketball Stadium, the Olympic Village, the Terminal 3 of the Capital International Airport, the Yintai Center and other national and Beijing key projects with high quality and efficiency. Major projects such as subway and expressway in many cities at home and abroad have won 78 Luban Awards, 114 National Quality Engineering Awards and 75 Zhan Tianyou Awards, totaling 267. More than 20 Beijing Olympic Winter Games venues and supporting projects, such as National Speed Skating Oval, Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre, Beijing Olympic Village, Yanqing Olympic Village and Mountain News Center, have been built with the quality of national craftsmen, which has made an important contribution to the successful hosting of a truly unparalleled Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. It also makes Beijing Urban Construction Group the only general contractor in the world who has built both the main venues of the Summer Olympic Games and the core venues of the Winter Olympic Games.