Member of CCP “Blood Debt Gang” Wang Lige Sentenced to Death with Reprieve

Original Jiangsu Provincial Party Standing Committee Member and Political-Legal Committee Secretary Wang Lige. (Composite image by NTD)

[People News] Editor's Note: Since the CCP launched the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, to force practitioners to abandon their belief in “Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance,” many Falun Gong practitioners were persecuted to death. This formed a CCP “Blood Debt Gang” led by Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong. Over 26 years, many key members of the “Blood Debt Gang” have suffered retribution in various forms, and some are destroying their own futures. From October 2, 2025, we have been publishing typical cases of “Blood Debt Gang” members suffering retribution or self-destruction, as a warning to others.

Former Jiangsu Provincial Party Standing Committee member and Political-Legal Committee Secretary Wang Lige is also one of the CCP “Blood Debt Gang” members led by Jiang and Zeng.

1. The “Bad Man” in Charge of Jiangsu’s “Knife Handle”

The CCP calls its apparatus of dictatorship—including the Political-Legal Committee, Public Security, Procuratorate, Court, and Justice departments—the “knife handle.”

Wang Lige worked for a long time in Liaoning Province’s public security system, rising to positions including Deputy Director of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department, Vice Mayor and Police Chief of Dalian City.

In March 2013, Wang was cross-regionally promoted to his hometown of CCP “Blood Debt Gang” leader Jiang Zemin—Jiangsu Province—as Governor’s Assistant and Director of the Provincial Public Security Department. He later served as Jiangsu Vice Governor and Public Security Department Director. In November 2015, he became Jiangsu Provincial Party Standing Committee member, Political-Legal Committee Secretary, and Public Security Department Director; from September 2017 to October 2020, he served as Standing Committee member and Political-Legal Committee Secretary.

According to the CCP Central Discipline Inspection Commission’s (CCDI) evaluation of Wang: “Never truly established ideals or beliefs, never loyal or honest to the Party, politically without principles.” From the moment Wang joined the CCP in 1984, he was a “bad man.” Being “politically without principles” means he could turn his hand any time to manipulate situations for personal gain.

Such a “bad man” rose from a grassroots police officer to a deputy provincial-level high official, becoming the top head of Jiang Zemin’s hometown Political-Legal Committee.

2. Four Crimes, Sentenced to Death with Reprieve

On September 22, 2022, Wang Lige, once in charge of Jiangsu’s Political-Legal Committee and all related departments—the “small tyrant of Political-Legal”—was escorted to trial by two judicial police. He was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for four crimes, with all personal property confiscated. After the death sentence with reprieve was commuted to life imprisonment, he is to serve life without parole or sentence reduction.

The court charged Wang with four crimes: bribery, giving bribes, shielding and tolerating criminal gangs, and forging identification documents.

The court determined that from 1993 to 2020, Wang, using positions such as Deputy Director of Beizhen Manchu Autonomous County Public Security Bureau, Director of Beining City Public Security Bureau, Deputy Director of Jinzhou City Public Security Bureau, Vice Mayor and Police Chief of Huludao City, Deputy Director of Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department, Vice Mayor and Police Chief of Dalian City, Jiangsu Vice Governor and Public Security Director, and Standing Committee member and Political-Legal Committee Secretary, exploited his authority to assist others in business operations, loan applications, job adjustments, and case handling. Directly or with accomplices, he received over 440 million RMB in bribes, gave over 97 million RMB in bribes, acted as a “protective umbrella” for criminal gangs, gaining over 80 million RMB, and used his authority to illegally process multiple false identification documents for himself, relatives, and associates.

3. Bribed Sun Lijun over 90 Million RMB

How did Wang Lige rise to become Jiangsu Provincial Standing Committee member and Political-Legal Committee Secretary?

A key reason: continuous bribery to Sun Lijun. According to CCTV, Wang met Sun, then Deputy Director of the Ministry of Public Security’s General Office, during a work trip. Wang saw Sun as young, in an important position, and with high upward potential, so he sought opportunities to get close to him.

In 2011, during Sun’s trip to Liaoning, Wang first gave him a bank card containing 1 million RMB. Sun accepted without refusal, signaling acceptance.

Subsequently, Wang repeatedly visited Beijing and other locations to “see” Sun, giving bank cards, US dollars, company shares, and other gifts.

Sun said: “He came to Beijing four or five times a year, each time bringing 300,000 USD in a small seafood box. Every time he came, he said he was giving me some ‘little seafood,’ and I knew what it meant.”

By the time the case broke, Wang’s “little seafood” gifts totaled over 90 million RMB. Sun also helped Wang rise through the ranks: “He became Jiangsu Vice Governor, Public Security Director, then Jiangsu Provincial Standing Committee member and Political-Legal Committee Secretary. I helped him along the way. I treated him as one of my own.”

Sun’s backing was rooted in Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong’s trusted associate Meng Jianzhu, then CCDI Secretary and Politburo member. Meng placed his trusted people nationwide in the political-legal system, including Shanghai, Chongqing, Shanxi, and Jiangsu, where Wang was appointed.

4. Promoted While Corrupt

According to court records, Wang’s bribery spanned 1993–2020, 27 years.

From Deputy Director at the county level in 1993 to Jiangsu Standing Committee member and Political-Legal Committee Secretary in 2020, Wang was promoted while continuously corrupt.

He was promoted to vice-provincial-level in December 2013 as Jiangsu Vice Governor and Public Security Director, evaluated by Politburo member and Organization Department head Zhao Leji—also a “Blood Debt Gang” member under Jiang and Zeng.

Thus, Wang Lige, Sun Lijun, Meng Jianzhu, Zhao Leji, and Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong formed a “special interest clique.” Even though Xi Jinping was CCP leader, the political-legal system remained under Jiang, Zeng, and their loyalists.

5. Political Enforcer in Persecution of Falun Gong

From July 20, 1999, Wang actively followed Jiang Zemin in persecuting Falun Gong, meeting Jiang twice and receiving the “National Second-Level Heroic Model of Public Security System” award on September 1, 1999.

Reports indicate that during his tenure in Liaoning and Jiangsu, Wang oversaw over 3,000 Falun Gong practitioners being abducted, hundreds sentenced, and 99 persecuted to death.

As Deputy Director of Jinzhou Public Security Bureau, he assisted Wang Lijun in persecuting Falun Gong, resulting in over 500 illegal detentions, more than 30 disabled, and 71 deaths.

As Liaoning Public Security Deputy Director and Dalian Police Chief, he personally planned and organized systemic persecution of practitioners, including surveillance, arrests, detention, labor camps, sentencing, and “reeducation.” Estimates include nearly 500 Dalian practitioners illegally arrested, 79 sent to labor camps, 20 sentenced, 85 sent to “brainwashing classes,” and at least seven killed.

In 2011, after Falun Gong practitioners interrupted Dalian Traffic TV to report the truth, Wang ordered illegal arrests. Victims Zhao Xue, Kong Xianguo, and Liu Jiqing were persecuted: Zhao sentenced to five years, life endangered; Kong beaten and sentenced to six years; Liu sent to labor camp.

In 2012, a 69-year-old man, Zhang Guilian, was illegally detained in Dalian, suffered brain hemorrhage, and died 29 days later.

From 2013 to 2020, Wang, as Jiangsu Public Security Director, Vice Governor, and Political-Legal Committee Secretary, became Jiangsu’s main political enforcer in Falun Gong persecution. Under his leadership, Jiangsu was one of East China’s worst regions for persecution.

Examples include:

• In 2013, Huang Wenqin, 46, kidnapped, tortured, and later sentenced illegally, dying October 22, 2014.

• In 2015, Jiangsu Falun Gong practitioners sent criminal complaints against Jiang Zemin to the Supreme Court. Wang ordered local police to arrest practitioners, including Zhu Liling, who became a vegetative state and died in 2018.

• In 2016, 81-year-old Zhou Yi and 78-year-old Gu Sumei were arrested in Nanjing, sentenced to two years in prison.

• Engineer Yin Hongpei was arrested for filing a complaint against Jiang and sentenced to three years.

• In 2017, Nanjing practitioner Ma Zhenyu was illegally arrested five times; his wife in the U.S. appealed for his release to Trump, Pompeo, and Brownback.

Even after multiple warnings and protests from practitioners worldwide, Wang’s leadership in Jiangsu continued systemic persecution through 2020, including deaths, injuries, disabilities, and mental trauma.

Conclusion

Wang thought that by bribing Sun Lijun and relying on Meng Jianzhu—and with Jiang, Zeng, and Meng as “protective umbrellas”—he could gain wealth and promotion simultaneously.

But “Good and evil have consequences; heaven’s law is fair. Look up, who can escape?”

From ancient times to now, those who persecute the good inevitably face retribution. Wang Lige, after decades of wrongdoing, finally faced punishment in October 2020. Now, Wang’s death sentence with reprieve has been reduced to life imprisonment, with no parole or sentence reduction—dooming him to spend the rest of his life in prison.

(Originally published by The Dajiyuan)