During Li Ning's tenure as the director of the State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology of China Agricultural University and the head of related research groups, Li Ning and Zhang Lei took advantage of their positions in managing project funds. From July 20, 2008 to February 20, 2008, they embezzled project research funds by means of corruption, fraud, false invoicing and false labor expenses, totaling RMB 37.56 million. These funds were transferred to the company actually controlled by Li Ning for its own use and invested in many other companies. On February 8, 2020, the Higher People's Court of Jilin Province sentenced Li Ning to 10 years' imprisonment for corruption and fined him 2.5 million yuan.
Why do people corrupt? I think the main reasons are as follows: first, desire causes trouble. At present, some people are not satisfied with their present life, and always want to live better, thus going astray. The second is to blindly compare. Some people may feel that their lives are not as good as others, and they are compared with others, which leads to psychological imbalance. Third, the awareness of anti-corrosion needs to be improved. Some cadres in party member have not established a correct outlook on life, values and money, and their thoughts have declined.
So how to improve the anti-corrosion ability: first of all, we must improve our own resistance. We should constantly strengthen our self-cultivation, learn more and improve our thinking, and at the same time supervise our relatives and friends. The second is to strengthen supervision. The relevant departments should strengthen the supervision of cadres in party member, broaden the channels of supervision and reporting, and actively welcome the people to supervise cadres in party member, so as to find and deal with them as soon as possible. The third is to create a good atmosphere. The news media should intensify propaganda and focus on the harm of corruption in order to improve people's ideological understanding and create a clean and honest social environment.