Duan Yihe

Duan Yihe (; January 17, 1946 – September 5, 2007) was a Chinese politician and a senior lawmaker in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province. He was a member of the 10th National People's Congress and served as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Jinan Municipal People's Congress from 2001 to 2007. Duan, together with his nephew-in-law, was executed in September 2007 for murdering his mistress, who was killed by a car bomb. It is considered one of the most shocking crimes involving a Chinese official. in Qihe County, Shandong, and graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University in August 1970. A photograph of the blackened skeleton of the Honda sedan went viral on the Internet. He had bought her a house and used his power to secure jobs for her relatives. To get rid of her, Duan asked policeman Chen Zhi , the husband of his niece, to create a "traffic accident". During the trial, Duan claimed that he did not want to kill his mistress and only asked Chen Zhi to make Liu "lose her ability to think", and that Liu's death was caused by Chen's error when executing the plot. On August 9, 2007, the court ruled that Duan and Chen Zhi were both guilty of murder and sentenced them to death. Chen Changbing was convicted as an accomplice to murder and given a life sentence. In addition to murder, Duan was also convicted of taking bribes worth (equivalent to US$223,800 at the time). He also had assets worth (US$176,000), for which he could not explain the sources. The Supreme People's Court of China reviewed the case and approved the sentencing.

Duan Yihe and Chen Zhi were both executed in Jinan on September 5, 2007. Duan was 61 years old. The method of execution was not released. He was the sixth provincial-ministerial level government official to be executed in China since 1978, after Hu Changqing (vice governor of Jiangxi), Cheng Kejie, Wang Huaizhong (vice governor of Anhui), Zheng Xiaoyu, and Lü Debin (vice governor of Henan).