How the first case was cracked

Jin Xiaodong, head of the Shangcheng district supervisory commission in Hangzhou, received his first case about a month after his commission was set up in February last year.

Yu Jianjun, a civil servant in the district housing maintenance department, was suspected of abuse of power and embezzling public funds to gamble, repay debts and buy luxuries.

Yu was neither a Party member nor a government official, but he was under supervision by Jin's team because the supervisory system established in pilot form in Zhejiang province in late 2016 encompassed all civil servants.