Yao Kun's stubborn resistance was utterly useless. With the evidence already in hand, the Shaohua City Municipal Public Security Bureau could convict him even without a confession.
From the transfer of his case to the Municipal Procuratorate for prosecution to the Municipal Intermediate People’s Court's public pronouncement of his death sentence, Yao Kun never received the "get-out-of-death-free card" he had so desperately hoped for.
In the wake of this incident, the Shaohua City Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government came to fully recognize that the presence and growth of criminal forces, such as village and township tyrants, seriously disrupted public order in rural areas, hampered the building of a socialist new countryside, and obstructed progress toward the Poverty Alleviation Campaign, prosperity, and a moderately prosperous society. Farmers, a vulnerable group, suffered deeply at their hands.
The Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government therefore decided to launch a four-month special rectification campaign against organized crime throughout the city, primarily targeting its counties, townships, and villages.
The Municipal Anti-Organized Crime Office, the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and other relevant departments issued notices soliciting leads on crimes involving organized crime and violent gangs. Meanwhile, as the Poverty Alleviation Office went into rural areas to help townships establish poverty alleviation bases, it also worked closely with public security organs, promptly passing along any organized-crime leads gathered during its poverty alleviation work.
Lu Chengfeng, the Jigao County Party Secretary whom Mayor Zhou had personally held up as a model, convened three consecutive special meetings on the crackdown on organized crime. He demanded that the entire county fully implement the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government's directives and the principles of Mayor Zhou's speech at the plenary meeting of the municipal Crackdown on Organized Crime Struggle Leading Group. The crackdown and rural poverty alleviation were to