Lanhe
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Lanhe is a town in Panyu District, in the municipal region of Guangzhou
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disciplinary committee, Liang Huiming, became the first official in the province to fall afoul of a nation-wide Public Security
crackdown on drunk driving.
The campaign began on August 15, to last until the National Day 'golden week' holidays. On Wednesday night, Aug 19, Communist Liang was stopped and ordered to take a breath test
, which he initially refused, instead showing his Party card and told the traffic police officers to let him drive on. Liang admitted he'd been drinking, but claimed that this was only to serve the people. Exiting the vehicle but still refusing to take the breath test, Liang made several calls on his cellphone
, hoping to find a CPC comrade highly-placed enough so as to be able to order the policemen to let him drive on.
Liang was taken to a hospital and forced to take a blood-test, which revealed him to have ingested a large amount of alcohol. He was taken into detention, a form of Chinese incarceration which, falling short of technical arrest, does not qualify the detainee for Habeas Corpus
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The Southern Metroplis News of Guangzhou, the municipality which oversees Panyu District and is the capital of Guangdong, reported Liang's detention in its Friday, Aug 21 edition, and said that the CPC—presumably at the level of its Panyu Branch at least—intended disciplinary measures against him. Liang's misadventure was englished the next day in the South China Morning Post
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Guangzhou
Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...
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Guangdong
Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...
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Lanhe in the News
The Town gained some notoriety in Aug 2009 when the head of its CPCCommunist Party of China
The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...
disciplinary committee, Liang Huiming, became the first official in the province to fall afoul of a nation-wide Public Security
Public Security Bureau
In the People's Republic of China, a public security bureau refers to the government offices while the smaller offices are called Police posts which are similar in concept to the Japanese Kōban system) present in each province and municipality that handles policing , public security, and...
crackdown on drunk driving.
The campaign began on August 15, to last until the National Day 'golden week' holidays. On Wednesday night, Aug 19, Communist Liang was stopped and ordered to take a breath test
Breathalyzer
A breathalyzer or breathalyser is a device for estimating blood alcohol content from a breath sample...
, which he initially refused, instead showing his Party card and told the traffic police officers to let him drive on. Liang admitted he'd been drinking, but claimed that this was only to serve the people. Exiting the vehicle but still refusing to take the breath test, Liang made several calls on his cellphone
Mobile phone
A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
, hoping to find a CPC comrade highly-placed enough so as to be able to order the policemen to let him drive on.
Liang was taken to a hospital and forced to take a blood-test, which revealed him to have ingested a large amount of alcohol. He was taken into detention, a form of Chinese incarceration which, falling short of technical arrest, does not qualify the detainee for Habeas Corpus
Habeas corpus
is a writ, or legal action, through which a prisoner can be released from unlawful detention. The remedy can be sought by the prisoner or by another person coming to his aid. Habeas corpus originated in the English legal system, but it is now available in many nations...
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The Southern Metroplis News of Guangzhou, the municipality which oversees Panyu District and is the capital of Guangdong, reported Liang's detention in its Friday, Aug 21 edition, and said that the CPC—presumably at the level of its Panyu Branch at least—intended disciplinary measures against him. Liang's misadventure was englished the next day in the South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
The South China Morning Post , together with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is an English-language Hong Kong newspaper, published by the SCMP Group with a circulation of 104,000....
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