Li Changjiang: Former quality supervision head took another post

Li Changjiang, former head of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), was removed from his post in 2008 for the contaminated milk powder scandal. According to the official report, Li Changjiang went to Jiangsu on December 26, 2009, as the deputy head of the team of eliminating pornographic and illegal information.

As reported, Li Changjiang listened to the reports about the achievements of Jiangsu in eliminating pornographic and illegal information. Then he checked the publication market in Nanjing and Zhenjiang.

Li was born in Heilongjiang in October 1944. He joined the CPC in December 1965, and started working in July 1970. He graduated from Changchun Institute of Fine Optical Mechanics (now Changchun University of Science and Technology), majoring in the design and manufacture of optical devices. He holds the title of vice research fellow at the University.

He formerly served as the governor assistant and vice governor of Zhejiang Province. In 2001, he was appointed head of the AQSIQ, and became the Party secretary of that administration in 2008.

In September 2008, a lot of kinds of milk powder were detected to contain the melamine. The AQSIQ was blamed for the malpractice. Due to the stress, Li chose to resign from his post after a State Council investigation concluded that he and Shijiazhuang Party Secretary Wu Xianguo were responsible for the “vital food safety incident”.