Lanhe, Guangzhou

Lanhe (榄核镇) is a town in Panyu District, in the municipal region of Guangzhou, GD.

Lanhe in the News

The Town gained some notoriety in Aug 2009 when the head of its CPC 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.

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.^[1]

Notes and references