First “Tiger” in 2025: Zhang Tianfeng, Former Deputy Director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, Reports Being Under Investigation
On January 17th, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission reported that Zhang Tianfeng, former member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, was suspected of serious disciplinary violations and was currently undergoing disciplinary review and investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission.
Zhang Tianfeng is also the first senior leader under the direct management of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission to be publicly investigated in 2025.
Public information shows that Zhang Tianfeng is a male, Han nationality, born in April 1963, with an advanced master’s degree in business administration and a member of the Communist Party.
Zhang Tianfeng has long worked in the tobacco system. He has served as a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy General Manager of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Tobacco Monopoly Administration (Company), a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy General Manager of Shaanxi Tobacco Monopoly Administration (Company), and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, Director, General Manager of Shaanxi Tobacco Monopoly Administration (Company). He joined the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration in March 2017 as Director of the Personnel Department (ranking as a departmental chief).
In February 2020, Zhang Tianfeng was promoted to member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, responsible for overseeing the Tobacco Supervision and Management Department, Policy and Law Reform Department, Personnel Department, Standardized Management Office, Office for Retired Officials, China Tobacco Investment Management Company, as well as the boards of Nantong, Kunming, and Zhuhai Cellulose Co., Ltd.
Earlier, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing from January 6th to 8th, 2025.
The plenary session proposed to improve the mechanism for investigating and rectifying misconduct and corruption simultaneously, focusing on deepening the integration of disciplinary actions against corruption. It emphasizes “co-investigation” to severely punish issues of corruption intertwined with作风问题, persevering in implementing the spirit of the Central Eight Rules, rectifying the “four styles” with strictness, focusing on issues such as flagrant violations, hidden transformations, serious impacts on market order, and increased burdens on grassroots units, strengthening supervision and deepening governance. It also emphasizes non-stop punishment of corruption, seriously investigating corruption cases where political and economic issues are intertwined, focusing on system-wide rectification in key areas such as finance, state-owned enterprises, energy, firefighting, tobacco, medicine, universities, sports, development zones, engineering construction, and bidding, and striving to solve difficult problems in discovering, obtaining evidence, and定性新型和隐性腐败. It also seriously investigates cases of abuse of authority, negligence of duty, and irregular decision-making that cause major losses of state assets, and决心调查那些总是拉拢干部下水、危害一方的行贿人，加大跨境腐败治理力度。
