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Behind almost every fallen official, there is a huge and unusual network of political and business relations.

For Huang Xingguo, the former acting secretary and mayor of Tianjin Municipal Committee, his political and business network must be inseparable from his own brother.

The minister-level official who came up from the secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee of the commune has four younger brothers at home. Over the years, with the continuous "progress" of Huang Xingguo, his eldest brother, his younger brothers have also devoted themselves to the business field, involved in machinery, construction, real estate, marine economy and other fields.

This situation continued until September 10, 2016.

Huang Xingguo China Net Map

At 10: 30 that evening, the website of the Supervision Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection released a message that Huang Xingguo was under investigation for serious violation of discipline. Shortly thereafter, Huang Xingguo’s younger brothers Huang Xingyu and Huang Xingrong were also taken away by the relevant departments.

The latest official bulletin of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on Huang Xingguo’s "double opening" also confirmed this point from the side.

The website of the Supervision Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection reported on January 4, 2017 that a few days ago, with the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC Central Committee filed a case review on the serious violation of discipline by Huang Xingguo, a member of the 18th Central Committee, acting secretary of the former Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and mayor.

After investigation, Huang Xingguo seriously violated political discipline and rules, discussed the central government’s major policies, undermined the party’s centralization and unity, acted in a blind manner, engaged in superstitious activities, inquired about clues about his own problems, and opposed organizational censorship; Violation of organizational discipline, illegal selection and appointment of cadres and acceptance of property, official vows, cronyism; Violation of integrity discipline, accepting gifts and cash gifts,Conniving and acquiescing relatives to gain huge profits by taking advantage of their position influence, and taking advantage of their authority and position influence to seek personal gain for their sons.,Seek benefits for others and accept huge amounts of property in business operations.; Violation of work discipline, illegal arrangements for visiting entourage, oversight of staff around. Taking advantage of his position to seek benefits for others and accepting property is suspected of committing a crime.

The traces left by the Huang brothers’ active business for many years have just revealed the tip of the iceberg.

hometown

Xiangshan in September is not calm. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, typhoons "Moranti" and "malka" came one after another, which made this small port county belonging to Ningbo and adjacent to the East China Sea stormy.

More powerful than a typhoon is the fall of Huang Xingguo.

As the hometown of Huang Xingguo, Xiangshan has long been proud to be a ministerial official.

xiangshan county

Local people say that compared with several counties and cities around Ningbo, Xiangshan’s economy is at the lower middle level. Especially before the Xiangshan Port Bridge was completed in 2012, it was very inconvenient to travel. In this case, it is difficult for Xiangshan officials to achieve political achievements and there is not much room for promotion.

But Huang Xingguo is an exception.

He is a native of Xiangshan, and his parents still live in Xibiantang Village, Xiaotang Township, south of Xiangshan. In the 1970s, Huang Xingguo started as the secretary of the Youth League Committee of Xiangshan Xiaotang Commune, and was gradually promoted to the posts of secretary of Xiangshan County Committee, secretary of Taizhou District Committee and secretary-general of Zhejiang Provincial Government.

In January 1998, 44-year-old Huang Xingguo stepped into the ranks of deputy ministerial leaders and began to serve as the vice governor of Zhejiang Province. Ten months later, he became a member of the Standing Committee of Zhejiang Provincial Committee and concurrently served as the secretary of Ningbo Municipal Committee.

In November 2003, Huang Xingguo was transferred to the post of Deputy Secretary and Vice Mayor of Tianjin Municipal Committee. As a municipality directly under the central government adjacent to the capital, Tianjin has a special political status, and this adjustment has also been favored by the outside world.

Huang Xingguo, who works in Tianjin, has a special concern for his hometown.

According to public information, since 2011, the party and government leaders of Xiangshan and Ningbo have led many delegations to study in Tianjin, and all of them were received by Huang Xingguo.

According to Zhejiang Online, in 2010, Song Qintang, who served as secretary of Xiangshan County Party Committee in his early years, died. Huang Xingguo, then deputy secretary of Tianjin Municipal Committee and mayor, sent a message of condolence and laid a wreath. Huang Xingguo’s wife Han Lingling personally went to Xiangshan to offer her condolences.

In 2013, Chen Yongzhong, then deputy head of Xiangshan County, died of illness. When introducing the relevant situation, official website of Xiangshan Port, China mentioned, "During Comrade Chen Yongzhong’s illness, Comrade Huang Xingguo, deputy secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and mayor of Tianjin, was very concerned and sent someone to visit the hospital."

Years of care and interaction have made many Xiangshan people feel sorry for Huang Xingguo’s defeat.

Some people who have had contact with him have given a relatively positive evaluation to this fellow countryman-Huang Xingguo, who was still working in the county in those days, has a good memory, outstanding ability, and a little precocious, and his career is also reasonable.

In contrast, people have some different views on Huang Xingguo’s younger brother.

According to many related sources, Huang Xingguo is the eldest in the family, and there are four younger brothers below. Compared with the eldest brother, these younger brothers have low education level and average quality, and more often rely on their special status to get involved in various businesses.

According to The Paper (www.thepaper.cn), Huang Xingguo has four younger brothers, namely Huang Xingchang, Huang Xingfang, Huang Xingyu and Huang Xingrong.

Among them, Huang Xingchang, Huang Xingyu and Huang Xingrong are all directly involved in business. In addition, since 2002, Huang Xingchang has served as the director of the village committee of Xibiantang Village in Xiangshan County, and was elected as the representative of the 17th People’s Congress of Xiangshan County in January 2012.

Another authoritative source from Xiangshan revealed that the next morning after Huang Xingguo’s fall, several strange faces appeared in the Huang family in Tangcun, west of the local area, and Huang Xingyu was immediately taken away. Huang Xingrong, who usually does not live in the village, was also taken away by the relevant departments.

marine economy

With the fall of Huang Xingguo and his two younger brothers being taken away, some companies related to the Huang brothers surfaced.

First of all, pay attention to the marine economy.

In August 2012, China Supply and Marketing Group (Ningbo) Marine Economic Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "China Supply and Marketing Group Ningbo Company") was incorporated in Xiangshan. The company has a registered capital of 205 million yuan and its legal representative is Zhang Jincheng.

There were two shareholders at the earliest: China Supply and Marketing Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "China Supply and Marketing Group") and Ningbo Xixiang Investment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ningbo Xixiang"). Among them, China Supply and Marketing Group is a wholly-owned enterprise of the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, holding 60% of the shares of China Supply and Marketing Group Ningbo Company.

In February 2016, Chongqing Innohill Import and Export Trading Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Chongqing Innohill") joined the investment ranks. The shareholders of China Supply and Marketing Group Ningbo Company became China Supply and Marketing Group, Ningbo Xixiang and Chongqing Ainuo Hill, and the shareholding ratio of the three companies was about 1: 3: 6.

In terms of personnel structure, the chairman of Ningbo Company of China Supply and Marketing Group is Zhang Jincheng, the vice chairman is Dai Xiyang, and the general manager is Hu Wei. Huang Xingguo’s younger brother, Huang Xingyu, was a member of the board of directors of the company.

It is reasonable for Huang Xingyu to be associated with Ningbo Company of China Supply and Marketing Group.

According to industrial and commercial data, Ningbo Xixiang, the second largest shareholder of China Supply and Marketing Group Ningbo Company, was established in May 2012 with a registered capital of 5 million yuan.

Ningbo Xixiang has three natural person shareholders: Huang Xingyu, Dai Xiyang and Dai Yongqi. Among them, Huang Xingyu contributed 2.5 million yuan, making him the largest shareholder.

This also means that Ningbo Company, a China supply and marketing group with a registered capital of more than 200 million yuan and a "national name" background, has Huang Xingyu’s investment behind it.

As one of the investors, this "mayor’s younger brother" is mostly hidden behind the scenes.

People close to Ningbo Company of China Supply and Marketing Group said that Huang Xingyu had hardly been seen in the company. Huang Xingguo’s fall has not affected the enterprise yet.

According to public information, Ningbo Company of China Supply and Marketing Group has gained the attention of leaders at all levels since its establishment in Xiangshan, and its development trend is good.

The project of Xiangshan International Aquatic Logistics Park invested and built by the enterprise has attracted much attention and has been written into the work report of Xiangshan County Government for many years. In 2015, the first phase of Xiangshan International Aquatic Logistics Park Project was included in the list of key construction projects in Zhejiang Province.

According to official website, a company, since 2013, many leaders from the national supply and marketing system, Zhejiang Province and Ningbo City have visited.

At the same time, Ningbo Company of China Supply and Marketing Group is constantly expanding its business field.

The company has successively invested in nine enterprises, including Ningbo Ocean Real Estate Co., Ltd., Ningbo Xinrou Protein Technology Co., Ltd., Ningbo Xinhaitong Da Trading Co., Ltd., Ningbo Xinmao Tongda Aquatic Products Trading Co., Ltd., Ningbo Taiken Industrial Co., Ltd., Shanghai Nongkun Industrial Co., Ltd., Beijing Huakang Yida Trading Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Qianhai Nonggan Industrial Co., Ltd. and Dalian Xinyang Tongda Industrial Co., Ltd., totaling more than 100 million yuan.

Elevator industry

Huang Xingyu also appeared in the elevator industry.

In July 2010, Tianjin Riyang Elevator Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Tianjin Riyang") was incorporated in Beichen District, Tianjin. The registered capital of the company is 10.1 million yuan, the legal representative is Jin Guoying, and shareholders Jin Guoying, Zhang Hongsheng and Huang Xingyu serve as supervisors of the company.

According to some public recruitment information, in recent years, Tianjin Riyang has repeatedly recruited personnel for Tianjin Branch of Express Elevator Co., Ltd., and the two companies are closely related.

According to industrial and commercial data, Express Elevator Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Express Elevator") was incorporated in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou in March 2012 with a registered capital of 35.04 million yuan and its legal representative is Huang Lianyong.

The company has five shareholders, namely natural persons Fang Liang, Zhou Jinlin, Huang Lianyong and Huang Xingyu, and corporate shareholders Hangzhou Kuaidao Investment Consulting Partnership (Limited Partnership).

Among them, Huang Xingyu subscribed for 7.75 million yuan, second only to Chairman and General Manager Huang Lianyong, and was the second largest shareholder of Express Elevator.

According to Express Elevator official website, Express Elevator is a British brand elevator company headquartered in London. In 2012, the British Express Elevator entered the China market and established the British Express Elevator Asia-Pacific Industrial Park in Hangzhou, with a total investment of 60 million US dollars and a factory area of about 100,000 square meters.

Official website of this enterprise also introduced that Huang Lianyong, the chairman of the board, was born in Xiaowan Village, Shipu Town, Xiangshan County in October 1979.

The Paper found that Xiaowan Village is located in the south of Xiangshan County, only 8 kilometers away from Xifangtang Village in Xiaotang Town, Huang Xingguo’s hometown.

Official website, the express elevator, also mentioned that since the operation of the enterprise, it has successfully won the bid for the elevator installation supporting projects of several projects, such as Chongqing Xiushan Railway New Passenger Station Square, Shaanxi Xi ‘an Prison, Guizhou Central Tianjie, Tianjin Lilong Commercial Plaza, Yuanchuang International Building Grade A office building, Baoding Swan Lake Community, Changchun Yuanchuang Ziyuetai, Quanzhou Engineering Vocational and Technical School, Lanzhou Heping Jiasheng Business Center and so on.

Attention should be paid to the Tianjin Lilong Commercial Plaza project.

This project was developed by Tianjin Zhili Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Tianjin Zhili").

According to industrial and commercial data, Tianjin Zhili was established in December 2011 with a registered capital of 100 million yuan and its legal representative is Zhang Jian. Natural person shareholder Tao Huang and corporate shareholders Tianjin Huachen Investment Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Tianjin Huachen") hold 49% and 51% of the shares respectively.

Tianjin Huachen, another shareholder of Tianjin Zhili, is also worthy of attention.

The company was established by Tianjin Huabei Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Huabei Group").

Official website, North China Group, introduced that the enterprise was established in 1999, and now it has become a large-scale comprehensive group company based on copper industry, integrating cable industry, financial industry, real estate industry and modern logistics. The comprehensive strength of the Group has been ranked among the top 500 private enterprises in China and the top 500 manufacturing enterprises in China for many years, with total assets exceeding 10 billion yuan and annual turnover reaching 20 billion yuan.

The legal representative and the largest shareholder of North China Group are Zhou Wenqi, who is also one of the directors of Tianjin Zhili.

In public reports, there is not much information about Zhou Wenqi.

The most common introduction is: Zhou Wenqi was born in 1999, bought Tianjin Huabei Cable Factory, and began to set foot in the copper processing industry. Two years later, the enterprise turned losses into profits, and now produces wires and cables and copper plates and rods, which is the largest copper production base in North China.

In July 2014, the China Banking Regulatory Commission officially approved the application for the establishment of three private banks in China. North China Group, Tencent, Zhengtai, Huafeng and other well-known enterprises jointly entered the list of the first seven sponsors, which is the latest intensive concern of Zhou Wenqi.

In addition, Zhou Wenqi is a representative of Tianjin Beichen District People’s Congress, vice chairman of Beichen District Federation of Industry and Commerce and the first director of APEC China Business Council.

real estate

The intersection of Zhou Wenqi and the Huang brothers is not just the elevator industry.

In July 2006, Sanmen Wenfeng Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Wenfeng Real Estate") was registered and established in Sanmen County, Taizhou City. The registered capital of the company is 10 million yuan, and there were three shareholders at the earliest: Zheng Minjie, Sun Meiqin and Dai Zhaofei.

One year later, the shareholders of Wenfeng Real Estate were changed to Huang Xingyu and Zhou Wenqi. Each of them contributed 5 million yuan, with Huang Xingyu as the general manager and executive director and Zhou Wenqi as the supervisor.

In April 2009, Huang Xingyu and Zhou Wenqi increased their capital contribution to 10 million respectively, thus increasing the registered capital of Wenfeng Real Estate to 20 million. Two years later, Huang Xingyu stepped down from the relevant positions of the company and only retained the status of Wenfeng Real Estate.

According to public information, Wenfeng Real Estate once developed the "Hutang Yuese" project in Sanmen. The property opened in October 2009, covering an area of about 33,000 square meters, and has been basically sold out.

After Sanmen in Taizhou, the cooperation between Zhou Wenqi and Huang Xingyu continued in Shijiazhuang, Hebei.

In August 2011, Shijiazhuang Xinhua Chiyun International Trading Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Jane)say/call"Chi Yun Business") was incorporated.

The registered capital of the company is 100 million yuan, which is jointly invested by Hebei Zhengyuan Packaging Group Co., Ltd., Tianjin Zhanyu Investment Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Linwo Industrial Co., Ltd. The legal representative is Lu Xiaofeng. Zhou Wenqi served as the chairman, and six directors, including Lu Xiaofeng and Huang Xingyu, served as directors.

In May 2012, Chiyun Commerce invested 10 million yuan to establish Shijiazhuang Chiyun Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Chiyun Real Estate").

The legal representative of Chiyun Real Estate is still Lu Xiaofeng, with Zhou Wenqi as the chairman and Huang Xingyu as the director.

The development of "Chi Yun Department" in Shijiazhuang is not smooth.

According to public information, Chiyun Commercial and Chiyun Real Estate "landed" in Shijiazhuang, with the main purpose of developing and operating the World Trade Center project in Xinhua District of the city. The project is estimated to have a total investment of 25.6 billion yuan and a planned area of 20,000 mu. In 2012, it was included in the key planned start-up project of Shijiazhuang City.

This huge project did not start as scheduled.

On April 26, 2016, yanzhao metropolis daily reported that the real estate market inspection brigade of Shijiazhuang Housing and Construction Bureau announced seven local real estate development projects to remind the majority of buyers to guard against the risks of buying houses. Among them, the World Trade Center project located in Xinhua District of the city has not obtained any development and construction procedures, does not have sales conditions, and there is a great risk of buying a house.

This situation may be related to Lu Xiaofeng, a business partner of Huang Xingyu and Zhou Wenqi.

According to public reports, Lu Xiaofeng came from Dongyang, Zhejiang Province, and started from trade. He developed the World Trade Center project in Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province and the Qiaosi Mall project in Hangzhou.

In the last two years, due to the break of the capital chain and the inability to fulfill the promised high rent return to the owners, Lu Xiaofeng faced a "crusade" from many owners.

In May, 2016, China Business News learned through many owners’ representatives in Tongxiang and Hangzhou and relevant persons of the local government that Lu Xiaofeng claimed to have gone to the United States for medical treatment because of stomach cancer, and it was difficult to get in touch. The company under its name is heavily in debt, and some assets have been seized.

intermediary/Middle Men

Compared with Huang Xingyu, Huang Xingchang and Huang Xingrong started their business earlier.

According to sources, Huang Xingchang has been involved in the construction industry since the late 1980s, and worked as a project manager in Xiangshan Municipal Engineering Construction Company.

It should be pointed out that Xiangshan is also known as the "hometown of architecture". In the 1980s and 1990s, when the local construction industry started and developed, many construction teams went to Ningbo, Shanghai and other places to explore the market, including famous Xiangshan enterprises such as Longyuan Construction and Hongrun Construction listed on the main board of Shanghai and Shenzhen.

In this context, the Huang brothers are also eager to try.

In December 1996, Huang Xingchang and Sun Yunfu invested 4.5 million yuan and 500,000 yuan respectively to establish Ningbo Great Wall Real Estate Co., Ltd..

In October 1999, Huang Xingchang and Huang Xingrong invested and established Ningbo Wanxing Construction Co., Ltd., with a registered capital of 6 million yuan and Sun Yunfu as the legal representative.

At present, Ningbo Great Wall Real Estate Co., Ltd. and Ningbo Wanxing Construction Co., Ltd. have been cancelled.

When Huang Xingchang was exploring the construction industry, Huang Xingrong turned his attention to foreign trade investment.

Relevant information shows that as early as the early 1990s, Huang Xingrong served as the legal representative of Xiangshan Oriental Materials Company. The company was established in July 1992, with the nature of collective ownership, and its business scope includes metal materials, coal, chemical raw materials and textile raw materials.

In June, 1993, Xiangshan Oriental Materials Company established Ningbo Bonded Area Rongda Economic Development Co., Ltd. with foreign investment. The legal representative of the latter is Huang Xingchang, whose business scope includes international trade, entrepot trade, export processing, warehousing and many other contents.

Xiangshan Oriental Materials Company and Ningbo Bonded Area Rongda Economic Development Co., Ltd. have also been cancelled.

In the middle and late 1990s, it was also the stage when Huang Xingguo made efforts from the main hall to the deputy department. In August 1996, he was transferred from Taizhou Municipal Party Committee Secretary to Secretary-General of Zhejiang Provincial Government, and was promoted to Vice Governor of Zhejiang Province one and a half years later.

In November, 1998, Huang Xingguo stepped into the Standing Committee of Zhejiang Provincial Committee and started to serve as the secretary of Ningbo Municipal Committee. During this period, his younger brothers appeared low-key and secretive in business.

A number of people familiar with Ningbo officialdom said that Huang Xingguo’s brother’s business was not completed by a physical company as an immediate relative of the main leaders. More often, they are just "middlemen" who bridge the gap between the government and businessmen and benefit from it.

A widely circulated case is the change of taxi in Ningbo in 1999.

Many related people recalled that at the end of July, 1999, the Ningbo Municipal Government issued relevant policies, requiring that more than 2,000 taxis in the city be replaced by Santana owned by Shanghai Volkswagen. Buy a new car, mainly through a local designated car dealer in Ningbo.

A few months later, some of the newly replaced Santana had quality problems. The "good friends" suspected that it was a defective product returned by the previous buyer, so they went to the Ningbo Municipal Government to discuss it. Without a satisfactory reply, hundreds of "brothers" intend to drive to the headquarters of Shanghai Volkswagen. The matter was intervened by the Zhejiang provincial government and stopped urgently, and all the vehicles in question were subsequently replaced.

Many years later, some taxi drivers in Ningbo who have experienced this incident are still deeply impressed by the "car change storm". Some drivers recalled that things could make a big deal at that time, in addition to the quality problems of the new car itself, it was also related to the designated model.

"At that time, it was not cheap to change Santana, and we didn’t accept it in our hearts." Some taxi drivers in Ningbo recalled that there was a rumor among "friends" that Huang Xingguo’s younger brother was involved in the operation behind the car change incident.

Now it’s so old that it’s hard to see the ins and outs. A number of people familiar with Ningbo officialdom told The Paper that it was true that Huang Xingguo’s younger brother Huang Xingrong was involved in the taxi change in 1999. It was also during Huang Xingguo’s tenure as secretary of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee that there were rumors of "Huang Xingguo’s younger brother’s participation" in Ningbo’s municipal projects such as greening and street lamp installation.

Multiple fields

Time has entered the 21st century. In November, 2003, Huang Xingguo left Zhejiang for the first time and went to work in Tianjin.

One month later, in December 2003, Huang Xingrong invested and established Ningbo Fulian FRP Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Fulian FRP") in Ningbo.

It is worth noting that at this time, Huang Xingrong was already a citizen of Hong Kong, and there was a company registered in Hong Kong in March 2000, named Hong Kong Hongxin Investment Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hong Kong Hongxin").

The earliest shareholder of Fulian FRP is Hong Kong Hongxin.

As a Hong Kong-funded enterprise, Fulian FRP has a registered capital of US$ 4 million, with Huang Xingrong as the chairman, Sun Yunfu as the vice chairman and Huang Xingchang as the director.

At the beginning of the company’s establishment, its business scope was the manufacturing and processing of FRP products, and it was planned to realize the production scale with an annual output value of 150 million yuan and annual sales of 130 million yuan.

According to other data, in December 2003, Fulian FRP acquired 75.75 mu of land in Ningbo (Camel) Electromechanical Industrial Park to build a factory building. The total construction area of the plant is 35,000 square meters, and the first phase of the project lasts for two and a half years. The construction unit is Ningbo Great Wall Real Estate Co., Ltd. established by Huang Xingchang in 1996.

After 2004, the commercial map of Huangjia Brothers gradually expanded, and the equity and business direction of Fulian FRP also experienced several changes.

According to industrial and commercial data, in August 2004, Hong Kong Hongxin transferred 75% of its shares to Shanghai Rongshan Investment Management Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Rongshan").

Shanghai Rongshan was established by Ningbo Great Wall Real Estate Co., Ltd., Zou Ying and Sun Yunfu with a registered capital of 10 million yuan.

In March 2005, Fulian FRP changed its business scope from the original manufacturing and processing of FRP products to the manufacturing and processing of ordinary mechanical parts and auto parts products, and the company name was also changed to Ningbo Fulian Machinery Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Fulian Machinery").

In April 2006, Hong Kong Hongxin transferred 2.55% equity to Huang Xingrong. The shareholders of Fulian Machinery were changed to Hong Kong Hongxin, Shanghai Rongshan and Huang Xingrong.

However, Fulian Machinery is not the main direction of the Huang brothers in business. Over the years, their road to business has not focused on a certain industry, but has spread its net widely and spanned many times.

Take Huang Xingchang as an example. In addition to the construction, real estate, trade and machinery manufacturing mentioned above, he also participated in the textile and aquaculture industries. The location of the enterprise is not limited to Ningbo, but also includes Shanghai, Anhui and even Hainan.

In March 2006, Hainan Fulian Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., jointly invested by Ningbo Great Wall Real Estate Co., Ltd. and Hong Kong Hongxin, was incorporated in Haikou. The registered capital of the company is US$ 1.28 million, and the legal representatives are Huang Xingchang and Huang Xingrong as vice-chairmen.

In August 2006, Huangshan Fulian Textile Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Fulian Textile") was established in Huangshan City, Anhui Province. The company has a registered capital of 4 million yuan, and its legal representative and executive director are Huang Xingchang.

At the same time, huangshan district Branch of Shanghai Jinshan Real Estate Management Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Jinshan Real Estate Huangshan Branch") headed by Huang Xingchang was incorporated in Huangshan City, Anhui Province.

At present, both Hainan Fulian and Huangshan Fulian have their business licenses revoked, and Shanghai Jinshan Real Estate Huangshan Branch has been cancelled.

In 2009, Huang Xingchang also briefly held a 10% stake in Ningbo Southern Wildlife Breeding Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Southern Breeding"). In less than a year, he will transfer the shares in his hand.

At present, Dai Xiyang is the largest shareholder of Southern Aquaculture. This person is also a business partner of Huang Xingyu, who once invested with Huang Xingyu in Ningbo Company of China Supply and Marketing Group.

Associated person

In addition to the Huang brothers, several common associates around them are also worthy of attention.

In May 2008, Zou Ying and Ren Qingsui, who had previously invested in Fulian Machinery, jointly established Huangshan huangshan district Yinhe Advertising Planning Co., Ltd. With a registered capital of only 500,000 yuan, the company invested 10 million yuan abroad and established Tianjin Binhai Fulian Logistics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Fulian Logistics").

Fulian Logistics was established in March 2009, with Ren Qingsui as the legal representative and executive director and Sun Yunfu as the supervisor.

In addition to the "rich connection" composed of Fulian Machinery, Fulian Textile, Fulian Real Estate and Fulian Logistics, enterprises related to the Huang brothers and named after Rongshan are enough to form a series.

Among them, Shanghai Rongshan, one of the investors of Fulian Machinery, established in 2004, Ningbo Rongshan Investment Holding Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ningbo Rongshan Investment") established in 2011 and Ningbo Rongshan Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ningbo Rongshan Environmental Protection") established in 2016.

From 2006 to 2015, Ningbo Rongshan Investment set up three other enterprises, namely Hangzhou Rongshan Greening and Maintenance Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hangzhou Rongshan Greening"), Ningbo Rongshan Auto Parts Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ningbo Rongshan Auto Parts") and Ningbo Free Trade Zone Yongchuang Zhilian Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd.

The investors of these three enterprises include Zou Ying.

In addition, The Paper noted that the legal representatives of Hangzhou Rongshan Greening and Ningbo Rongshan Auto Parts are Huang Hua. He is also one of the shareholders of Rongshan Environmental Protection in Ningbo.

According to relevant sources, Huang Xingguo has a nephew named Huang Hua, who is likely to be an investor in the above-mentioned "Rongshan Department".

Among the enterprises related to the Huang brothers, Huang Hua’s name does not only appear in the "Rongshan Department".

In July 2008, he and Zhang Chunxu, Yang Jiyin and others invested and established Ningbo Baiye Real Estate Investment Consulting Co., Ltd..

In January 2013, Huang Hua once again cooperated with Zhang Chunxu to invest in the establishment of Ningbo Baiyi Real Estate Investment Consulting Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ningbo Baiyi").

According to industrial and commercial data, Ningbo Baiyi has a registered capital of 2 million yuan, with Huang Hua as the legal representative and executive director and Zhang Chunxu as the supervisor.

At present, Ningbo Baiyi has been revoked its business license, and Ningbo Baiyi is still in business. The latter works in the same place as Fulian Machinery, whose legal representative is Huang Xingchang.

In September 2016, The Paper visited Fulian Machinery and Ningbo Baiyi in an office building in jiangdong district, Ningbo. The door of the company is tight, and the staff are extremely wary of strangers who come to visit and refuse to disclose any information about the boss.

In addition, Ren Qingsui, who has a high correlation with the Huang brothers, is also the head of huangshan district Branch of Ningbo Xinhengde Real Estate Co., Ltd..

Relevant information shows that huangshan district Branch of Ningbo Xinhengde Real Estate Co., Ltd. was established in July 2009. In 2013, the company developed the property "Xintiandi Garden" in Yungu Road, huangshan district, Huangshan City, and the property is still on sale.

It should be noted that the parent company of this property is Ningbo Xinhengde Real Estate Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Ningbo Xinhengde").

Ningbo Xinhengde was established in September 2000 with a registered capital of 50 million yuan, which is an enterprise under the name of Yu Nengjian, a native of Juexi, Xiangshan.

In the Xiangshan rich circle, Yu Nengjian and his younger brother Yu Guoxiang are "legends". In 2003, Yu Guoxiang, who was previously unknown, bought Hilton Shanghai Jing ‘an, which made him famous. In 2004, Yu Nengjian spent $1 billion to buy the management right of Hangzhou Ring Expressway, which caused a sensation again.

In the impression of many Xiangshan people, the Yu brothers act in a low-key and mysterious way, and most of their friends are dignitaries. According to Caijing, in 2006, Yu Guoxiang, known as "Little Ningbo", once lost his freedom.

In November 2008, the Intermediate People’s Court of Tongling City, Anhui Province made a first-instance judgment on the case that Shanghai Shanchuan Real Estate Co., Ltd. and its actual controller, Yu Guoxiang, bribed four calligraphy and paintings totaling 3.737 million yuan, and sentenced the two units to a fine of 2 million yuan each for bribery, and sentenced Yu Guoxiang to two years’ imprisonment with a suspended sentence of three years. Yu Guoxiang said in court that he would not appeal.

A number of related sources said that in recent years, Yu Guoxiang has been active in the business field as the boss of Sanli Holding Group, a Hong Kong-funded enterprise. He has a very good relationship with Huang Xingguo’s youngest brother, Huang Xingrong. In late September 2016, after Huang Xingrong was taken away, news came from Ningbo that Yu Guoxiang cooperated with the investigation.

However, in late October 2016, The Paper verified this rumor with the Shanghai headquarters of Sanli Holding Group. The staff of the company explicitly denied it and said that the boss was not in Shanghai at present.

　　Zhongxin. com, Hangzhou, January 10 (Guo Qichen) In the daily life of fireworks, it contains peace and harmony; In the moment of emergency and danger, it highlights the step forward; At the intersection of the new and the old, there is a surge of innovation and reform … The "most beautiful" appearance of the people’s police is reflected in the retrograde charge at the critical moment and also reflected in the silent persistence of ordinary years.

　　January 10th is "China People’s Police Day", and the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department held a press conference to announce the "Most Beautiful Zhejiang Police" in 2021. Among them, there are the "most beautiful policemen" who care about the masses and catch up with the exam in the new era, the "most beautiful auxiliary police" who dream of police camp and fight side by side with the police, and the "most beautiful police sister-in-law" who is deeply attached to her husband’s career.

　　Different identities, different contributions, for the same cause, for the lights.

　　"Dispel evil and reunite love"

　　February 12, 2021, New Year’s Day. Li Xiaorong, director of Luoshe Police Station of Deqing County Public Security Bureau, Huzhou City, finished his work and went back to his mother’s house for a late "New Year’s Eve". When waiting for the red light on the road, I suddenly heard someone shouting loudly. Li Xiaorong, who has been a policeman for 24 years, immediately got off the bus and ran to the river.

　　In the cold river, a woman is struggling up and down. The water does not pass her head from time to time, and the woman’s position is in the deep water area in the middle of the river. The situation is very critical. Li Xiaorong didn’t think much, took off his coat and jumped into the cold river, struggling to pull the woman ashore.

　　When the medical staff and police officers arrived, Li Xiaorong squeezed the water on his clothes and left the scene silently.

　　This "guardian blue" is not only Li Xiaorong’s unswerving leap in the days of family reunion. Tong Lijian, the deputy commander of the patrol (special) police brigade of Chun ‘an County Public Security Bureau in Hangzhou, used his quick wits to hold the suspect’s sharp knife against the child’s throat with his bare hands in just a few seconds and quickly rescue him. It is also the life-and-death rescue of Fu Yingke, a policeman of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Public Security Bureau of Shengzhou City, Shaoxing, on the way of business trip, escorting intussuscepted babies for emergency medical treatment.

　　Keep evil behind you and let love reunite with the world. A group of Zhejiang police who light up the stars and help find relatives have made the realistic version of Lonely Lost have a perfect ending, making "not seeing" connected with "not leaving".

　　Sui Yonghui, a policeman from Xihu Branch of Hangzhou Public Security Bureau, who is known as the "Commander-in-Chief of Tracing People", implicated the blood ties scattered in the streets and helped more than 7,000 families reunite. Ke Weili, a policeman from the Criminal Science and Technology Office of Luqiao Branch of Taizhou Public Security Bureau, used forensic technology to decipher the "reunion password", which turned the "reunion" in the DNA library into a miracle on the road to finding relatives again and again.

　　"Different epaulettes, same faith"

　　In the public security team, there is a group of auxiliary police who also guard the safety of one side in the name of the police. They fight side by side with the police and jointly build a safe home.

　　In January 2021, Yao Forest, an auxiliary police officer of Renhuangshan Police Station of South Taihu New District Branch of Huzhou Public Security Bureau, was unfortunately injured by an exploded gas tank when handling a fire with the police. A burn photo is tearful compared with the previous one.

　　When the fire went out, Yao Senlin’s hair and eyebrows were burned away, and the original delicate face was burned beyond recognition. "I didn’t know what I had become at that time. Later, I took a selfie with my mobile phone and found that I was like a different person."

　　After only one and a half months’ rest, Yao Senlin returned to his post and put on his police uniform again. "Honor will eventually pass, and I will continue to protect the peace of this people." Yao Senlin, who was awarded the "most beautiful auxiliary police" this time, said.

　　Cross the sea, and you will show your true colors. Zhang Chong, an auxiliary police officer of Nanmen Police Station of Haishu Branch of Ningbo Public Security Bureau, bravely stepped forward in the face of the art knife suddenly pulled out by the suspect during an arrest.

　　In a dangerous situation where the neck cut by the suspect was as deep as 15 cm, Zhang Chong still held the suspect under control and arrested him with the help of his colleagues. After Zhang Chong was taken to the hospital, he was rescued with 240 stitches.

　　Looking at all public security fronts, there are Tang Wenjie, an auxiliary police officer who "descended from the sky" and bravely rescued the little girl hanging outside the balcony on the 11th floor, He Dawei, an auxiliary police officer who carried out anti-fraud propaganda at his wedding, and Lin Yi, an auxiliary police officer who used his computer technology to help trace the source of the epidemic …

　　They use the beauty of anti-epidemic, persistence, responsibility, serving the people and fighting for the people to interpret the "most beautiful" of the auxiliary police, either on the front line of anti-fraud, at the scene of solving crimes or at the window of handling permits.

　　"You protect peace, I protect you."

　　On February 25, 2021, Chen Chongke, a criminal policeman of Pingyang County Public Security Bureau in Wenzhou City, took the suspect to the hospital for a medical examination. Zhang Meila, his wife who was pregnant for six months, was waiting for a pregnancy test alone in her seat. Although her mood was a little low, Zhang Meila knew that her husband could not leave his post without leave, and advised him to work with peace of mind and insist on finishing the examination by himself …

　　In peacetime, the public security team is the team that gives the most and sacrifices the most. As police sisters-in-law, they are used to their husbands frequently working overtime and running around, and also guarding the peace of their home country with their own strength.

　　The epidemic situation was so fierce that one by one "police doctor families" stepped forward and went to the "epidemic" line. Zhu Ying, a respiratory physician at Wenzhou People’s Hospital, is the wife of Li Buhui, a policeman from Wenzhou Public Security Bureau. In early 2020, she was sent to Wuhan to fight the epidemic and became the first medical team member to aid Hubei in Zhejiang. In the 72 days of the expedition, she faced life and death to save lives, and her husband was on duty for a long time without taking a rest. The husband and wife became a couple of wars.

　　People’s teachers, medical staff, journalists, community workers … Among the 100 "most beautiful police wives", many people give full play to their professional expertise, support public security work with practical actions, and become veritable "good wives".

　　Xu Shuangshuang is the vice principal of Hangzhou Yucai Dengyun Primary School. Together with her police husband Wu Jianli, she created and published a series of children’s books "Mathematical Police" with the theme of "Mathematics+Anti-fraud", which was widely welcomed by young readers. Hua Xiaoxia, a reporter from Wenzhou Metropolis Daily, and Chen Mengyan, a traffic police husband, have been married for 12 years, and they have jointly planned to spread the "good voice" of the traffic police, calling on all sectors of society to further care for the public security police.

　　The "most beautiful policeman" cannot be separated from the understanding and support of the "most beautiful police sister-in-law". He shouldered the weathered Leng Yue of the public security front with iron shoulders, and she shouldered the daily necessities of family life with soft shoulders, jointly guarding the lights of thousands of families. (End)

In the government building of Anambra State, Nigeria, a woman named Chioma hugged her baby boy Hope tightly, with tears in her eyes and repeatedly said, "This is my own son! You see, he looks exactly like my husband! "

She and her husband Ike sat side by side on the sofa, opposite Evy Obinabo, the local Commissioner for Women’s Affairs and Social Welfare. This female official, who has handled numerous family disputes, is frowning at the file at the moment-five relatives of Ike are still sitting in the room, and they all question: "This child is definitely not his own!"

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It started eight years ago, when Chioma and Ike got married and never got pregnant, and her husband’s family gradually lost patience.

"My mother-in-law called me a’ barren girl’ in front of the whole village, and my sister-in-law even introduced Ike to a new object." Chiaoma trembled slightly as she clutched the infant’s hand.

Last winter, she saw the small advertisement of "helping pregnant hand" on the telephone pole of the market, and found it like a straw.

The "clinic" hidden in the slum injected her with unknown drugs and announced "successful pregnancy" three months later. Chiaoma touched her flat belly with disbelief, but the clinic sent her B-ultrasound photos every week.

"Watching the little hands and feet grow up in the image, I am so happy that I can’t sleep," she suddenly became excited. "I am really pregnant for 15 months! Although it is longer than ordinary people, the child is particularly healthy! "

"Nonsense! The longest human pregnancy is only 12 months! " Ike’s cousin got angry.

Commissioner Obinabo signaled everyone to be quiet, turned around and opened the files in the computer-the screen was a photo taken by the police when they raided the clinic: boxes of baby milk powder were piled up in the simple ward, and more than a dozen pregnant women’s birth inspection records were posted on the wall, but all the names were forged.

It turns out that this is a black industrial chain. Liars first attract infertile women with "ancestral secret recipe", create the illusion of pregnancy with false tests, and buy babies from traffickers when the "due date" approaches. A survey by BBC reporters found that most of these babies came from orphanages in war-torn areas, and each child could sell for 5,000 dollars.

"Look at Hope’s birth certificate. It clearly says to deliver a baby in a public hospital." Chiaoma was still arguing, but her voice gradually dropped.

The Commissioner sighed and pointed to the official seal on the certificate: "This hospital was demolished three years ago."

Ike, who has been silent, suddenly hugged his wife: "Don’t be afraid, even if the child is not biological, we can go through the formal adoption procedure."

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Aminah (not her real name), 35, trembled and lifted her skirt at a market in a small town in southeastern Nigeria, revealing a slightly bulging abdomen. "The doctor said it was a miracle that the fetus was growing next to my liver." She stroked her stomach with morbid hope in her eyes.

Such scenes are being staged in many corners of the country-according to United Nations data, every woman in Nigeria has an average of 4.6 children, and women who can’t get pregnant are often regarded as "the curse of the family".

BBC investigative reporters lurked for three months and finally got into an underground clinic in Lagos. In the dark consulting room, the man who claimed to be the "master of gynecology" was showing three women ultrasonic images: "Look, this is your child’s toe, although it is not easy to find it behind the kidney."

In fact, these images are all fake materials downloaded from the Internet. Women who receive so-called "embryo transfer" have to pay 300 dollars equivalent to half a year in exchange for injecting a tube of turbid liquid.

"The burning sensation of the drug injected into the body convinced me that the treatment was effective." Fioma, who was deceived in Abuja, recalled. Three weeks later, her abdomen began to swell and her menstruation stopped. These physiological changes made her completely fall into a state of doubt.

What’s more frightening is that the clinic forbids them to contact with regular medical treatment-"those quack instruments will kill your angels", so the scammers threaten.

When the "due date" approached, the scam reached its climax. In a remote farmhouse in Kano state, women in labor were asked to pay an extra $500 for "God-given oxytocin".

Kira, a 26-year-old victim, described: "They gave me an injection and the whole world began to spin. I heard the baby crying in my trance. When I woke up, I had a suture in my lower abdomen and a baby boy in my arms. " Forensic tests showed that the concentration of sedatives in her body was enough to anesthetize an adult zebra.

According to a survey conducted by the Nigerian Child Protection Organization, most of these babies come from orphanages in war-torn border areas. Criminal groups buy babies for $200 each, and then sell them at ten times the high price in the name of "God-given son".

In the latest raid, the police found 47 test tubes labeled "embryo culture solution" in the freezer of a "fertility clinic"-the actual composition is normal saline mixed with hallucinogens.

"This is not a simple fraud, but a systematic mind control." Dr. Ngozi, a clinical psychologist, analyzed that swindlers accurately use the fertility worship in traditional culture to construct a complete virtual pregnancy experience in the victim’s consciousness through drug hallucination and group hypnosis. With the deepening of the investigation, 12 transnational trafficking gangs have surfaced, and their criminal networks have even extended to the European adoption black market.

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In a dilapidated hotel in Ihiala town, southeastern Nigeria, an absurd drama is staged on the second Saturday of every month: at 7: 00 in the morning, more than 20 women with bulging bellies have lined up in the corridor, waiting for the legendary "seeing off Guanyin" Dr. Ruth. The BBC investigation team pretended to be a couple who had not had children for eight years and knocked on the door of room 306 with an invisible camera.

At the moment when the door was opened, the waves of cheers came to my face-the woman who had just been diagnosed as "pregnant" was crying with her relatives and friends, and the room was full of glass bottles with the words "God gave the holy medicine". Dr. Ruth, wearing heavy makeup, sat on a faded velvet sofa with a forged certificate from a well-known medical college hanging on her badge.

"Congratulations on finding the right person!" She scanned our forged physical examination report. "As long as you inject this tube of genetic optimizer, you can not only get pregnant, but also choose the sex of your fetus!"

Seeing his wife’s hesitation, she immediately changed her strategy and took out a bag of crushed pills: "This is an ancestral pregnancy-promoting powder. With the same room every Tuesday and Saturday, I will see you next month." The asking price of this "basic package" is 350,000 naira, which is equivalent to the salary of local civil servants for three months.

We’ll make a follow-up visit in four weeks. Ruth slipped on the reporter’s abdomen with an imitation ultrasonic instrument, and the sound suddenly came out with a "thump" heartbeat. "twins! Or twins! " She pointed to the jumping light spot on the display-it was actually a pre-recorded video. When we asked for details, she lowered her voice: "Now we need to inject fetal nutrients, otherwise the baby will be malnourished."

This "premium package" is priced at 2 million naira, which is equivalent to a 12-fold increase in the amount of fraud.

The investigation found that the second floor of the hotel was actually a temporary delivery room. The woman who gave birth here recalled: "They gave me a pink potion, and when I woke up, my stomach was flat and there was a crying baby around me." What’s even more amazing is that the so-called "gene optimizer" is only vitamin B12 injection after testing, while the "pregnancy-promoting powder" is actually ground by antidepressants.

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It is not clear whether these women really believe these lies. But why do they easily fall into this naked scam? The answer may be hidden in the pregnancy rumors that are rampant on social media.

"Secret pregnancy" is a recognized phenomenon in the medical field, which means that women don’t realize that they are pregnant until the late pregnancy. But the BBC survey found that Facebook groups and pages are full of false information about such pregnancies.

A woman in the United States specializes in operating the "secret pregnancy" homepage, claiming that she has been pregnant for many years, and this experience cannot be explained scientifically. In the closed group of Facebook, many posts package this false "treatment" as a "miracle" in religious terms, claiming that it can help infertile women. These rumors make it easier for women to believe in scams.

Not only Nigerians participated in the group, but also women from South Africa, the Caribbean and the United States. Liars sometimes join groups and take the initiative to contact women who are interested in "treatment". Once someone expresses their willingness to participate, they will be dragged into a more secretive WhatsApp group, where the administrator will introduce the so-called "secret clinic" and its operation process.

In February this year, when the police raided Chioma’s "childbirth" clinic, the shocking picture revealed the bloody truth-behind the seemingly formal clinic building, there was a darkroom where 17-year-old pregnant women were imprisoned. Some of these girls were abandoned by their boyfriends, and some could not afford illegal abortion, and finally sold their own flesh and blood for 470,000 naira.

"They lied to me that their children would be sent to wealthy families to study." 19-year-old Wu Zhu (pseudonym) stroked the scar of caesarean section and sobbed. This girl, who was forced to be separated from her newborn, still has photos of "adopted families" sent by fraudsters in her mobile phone-it was later confirmed that they were all online maps.

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After four hours of intense inquiry, Commissioner Obinabo finally made a ruling. She pushed a pile of DNA test reports in front of Chiaoma: "Legally speaking, you are not the birth mother of this child." After saying his word, Chiaoma suddenly fell to his knees, and Hope in his arms burst into tears.

"Please look at this!" Ike took out his mobile phone trembling and played a heartbreaking video-Ricky Omar was singing a lullaby to a fake pregnant belly with wet tears hanging from his eyes. The man who has been married for eight years choked: "She reads to the’ fetus’ every day, knits more than 30 baby clothes, and even suffers from prenatal depression."

Finally, Obinabo sighed: "You can raise Hope temporarily, but on one condition-"She pointed to the poster of the African Convention for the Protection of Children on the wall. "If you can’t find your biological parents within three years, you must go through the formal channels for adoption."

When she walked out of the government building, Chiaoma wrapped Hope more tightly. On the telephone pole on the street corner, the small advertisement of "Bao Sheng Boy" rattled in the wind. Dr. Ngozi, a child psychologist, looked at their backs and said, "Let a fake mother go today, and ten real liars will emerge tomorrow. Unless we stop using the uterus to define the value of women, such a tragedy will never end. "

The data shows that there are 1,200 new similar scams in Nigeria every year, but only 3% of the cases are exposed. In neighboring Benin, there are even whole villages involved in baby trafficking. As Adoula, a volunteer of abduction, said: "When the whole society regards fertility as a female examination paper, cheating becomes an inevitable choice."

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Original title: "Eight years of seeking a child will eventually become empty? From the beginning of Nigeria’s "Songzi Clinic", a fake B-ultrasound instrument actually made a live baby.

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If the probability that two strangers meet and fall in love in the vast sea of people is very small, how likely are the two stars in the vast universe to meet and merge?

At the just-concluded American Astronomical Society, Larry Molnar, an astronomy professor from Calvin College in the United States, released an exciting news: around March 2022, two low-quality stars in the Milky Way will merge.

As soon as the news was published, it aroused strong public interest. After all, not many humans have the opportunity to witness the merger of two stars in their lifetime.

Where are these two stars? How far is it from us? What force created this shocking collision? How many years will the merger of these two behemoths last? Dinosaurs just witnessed the encounter between a comet and a planet, and they were almost wiped out. Then, five years later, when these two stars finally collided, what wonders will we witness? What impact will this collision have on our home planet Earth?

Let’s explore it in detail and do some homework in advance for this cosmic "encounter".

Figure 1: The red dot represents the position of the merged binary system.

1800 light years away: long gestation and rapid merger

As you probably know, in our galaxy, there is a constellation Cygnus, and these two merging stars are in Cygnus. They form a star binary system called KIC 9832227, which is about 1800 light years away from us.

As early as January 2015, Professor molnar and others published relevant contents at the American Astronomical Society, and identified KIC 9832227 as a binary system that is likely to be merged.

They analyzed the data of this system from 1999 to 2014, and found that its cycle was continuously decreasing, and the decreasing trend was very similar to that before the outbreak of Scorpio V1309, and there was also a star merger event in Scorpio V1309. In 2015-2016, Professor molnar and others used further observation data to verify their previous inference, and finally confirmed that the system would be merged one day.

However, there are as many as 200 billion to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, and nearly one third of them are located in binary or multi-star systems. It seems not uncommon for two stars in a binary system to merge.

Is this really the case? This requires us to understand the classification of binary systems first.

We can easily understand the "binary star system", that is, a system consists of two celestial bodies; These two celestial bodies can be ordinary stars or dense celestial bodies with high density, such as neutron stars or black holes.

In astronomy, we can classify binary systems according to many standards, one of which is the distance between two celestial bodies. For a "wide binary", the two celestial bodies are far apart and have little interaction. Two celestial bodies that are close to each other are called "close binaries", and it is possible for them to influence each other or transmit matter. Among the numerous binary systems in the Milky Way, there are only about 40,000 pairs of close binary stars, which can be said to be very rare.

Some close binary stars are too "intimate" and even come into contact, so we call them "contact binary". In an extreme case, the passing binary stars are so "close" that the two celestial bodies share the same external gas envelope. Generally speaking, it takes millions or billions of years for them to reach the stage of sharing the cladding, and once they enter the stage of sharing the cladding, the two stars will merge quickly, taking only a few months or years. Compared with the long years before sharing the envelope, the process of merger is like a blink of an eye, which is like a couple who have been in love for a marathon and then got married quickly after proposing marriage.

The binary star system KIC 9832227 mentioned above is in the final stage of shared cladding. According to the existing theoretical estimation, the two stars will merge in about five years.

Figure 2: (left): Imagination diagram before merger; (right): Numerical simulation diagram before merger.

The merger of binary stars will bring us a bright new star.

According to the current spectral data analysis, the mass of the two stars to be merged does not exceed 0.4 solar mass, which belongs to the category of the least mass stars we know. They look red, and the surface temperature is about two or three thousand degrees Celsius. Judging from the current observation, the two stars have not merged, and their apparent brightness is about 12 magnitude, which has completely exceeded the lowest limit that human eyes can see (6 magnitude), so we can only observe with the help of telescopes. (Magnitude is a unit used to measure the brightness of celestial bodies. The higher the brightness of stars, the lower the magnitude value; Sirius, the brightest star we see at night, is about 0 magnitude. )

The whole process of merging these two stars will last for several weeks, which is like a flash compared with their life span of 10 billion years. In this "instant", their brightness will rapidly increase by 100,000 times, and the apparent brightness can reach about 2 stars. It will look as bright as Polaris, second only to the three brightest stars we see in the northern sky: Sirius (-1 magnitude), Vega (0 magnitude) and Antares (1 magnitude).

The result of this binary merger is that there is a new bright star in our night sky for the time being, and its color is still red, so we call it "red star". This new star will exist for at least 10 billion years, so why do we say that there is a new bright star "temporarily"? Because it will only be bright for a few weeks, and then it will fade away and hide in the darkness beyond our naked eyes in the vast universe.

The gravitational wave generated by the merger of two black holes in 2015 attracted the attention of the whole world. So, will the merger of these two stars also generate gravitational waves five years later?

The answer is yes. The merger of binary stars will also release gravitational waves with a certain energy, but it is very small and almost negligible. Almost all the energy is concentrated in the electromagnetic wave, so we can only rely on traditional telescopes for observation. The gravitational wave observatory (LIGO) in the United States should not be able to detect this merger.

The merger of binary stars has brought us a bright new star. Will it also bring some dangers?

If we want to predict the impact of this event on life on earth, we need to know how much energy is released during the merger process and whether it will have any impact on the earth’s atmosphere.

There is no doubt that the merger of two celestial bodies will produce explosions and release a lot of energy at the same time, but the amount of energy released depends on the density of the merged celestial bodies. For example, the merger of two neutron stars will produce a so-called gamma-ray burst, which will release a thousand times the energy of a supernova in about 1-2 seconds and produce extremely strong gamma rays-astronomers have discussed the impact of such bursts on the earth-if such celestial bodies erupt at us not too far away in or outside the Milky Way, life on earth will be doomed.

However, we don’t have to worry that the merger of these two small stars will have any impact on life on earth. Compared with the merger of other dense celestial bodies, the energy released by the merger of these two stars is very small, even less than the energy generated by some normal stars, not to mention the energy generated by them is mainly in the optical band. We’d better watch the beautiful red star with peace of mind.

Standing on the shoulder of Scorpio V1309, waiting for the new star.

Fig. 3: Evolution of possible "Red Nova" Unicorn V838 after the explosion, observed by Hubble telescope.

Theoretically speaking, astronomers always believe that the merger of low-mass binary stars is one of the cradles for the birth of slightly larger stars. However, the real observation has only made some progress in recent decades, which is attributed to the development of some large-scale astronomical survey projects and the improvement of computer processing power. In the past decades, astronomers have observed similar explosions many times, such as M31 RV in the Large Magellanic Cloud in 1988, V4332 in Sagittarius in the Milky Way in 1994, and V838 system in Unicorn in 2002-these explosions may represent merger events, but we are not completely sure.

It was not until 2006 that humans really confirmed a binary merger. The supernova search project of the Lick Observatory found the explosion of M85 OT2006-1 in the M85 galaxy 60 million light years away from the Earth. Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley and California Institute of Technology made a detailed analysis, and found that the explosion originated from the merger of two low-mass binary stars, which was different from other known nova explosions. However, due to the lack of monitoring information before the outbreak, we are very lack of understanding of the binary system before the merger. In this year, according to the observations, astronomers gave a name to the new star formed by the merger of binary stars: "luminous red novae".

The key to really help astronomers solve the mystery of "Red Nova" is hidden in Scorpio V1309. This system was first discovered by astronomy enthusiasts in China and Japan, and then they submitted the relevant information to the astronomical variable source monitoring organization of the International Astronomical Union. However, the detailed data of Scorpio V1309 comes from an optical gravitational lensing experiment (abbreviated as OGLE；; Optical gravity lens experiment). The project was officially started by astronomers of Warsaw University in Poland in 2001. The original intention was to monitor a large area of the sky, hoping to find celestial sources with changing brightness and discover the phenomenon of gravitational lens, so as to test some celestial bodies, such as black holes, which were originally thought to constitute dark matter. The location of Scorpio V1309 is just within the monitoring sky area of OGLE, so astronomers have obtained a large number of long-term observation data before and after the outbreak. Subsequent data analysis not only confirmed that this is a "red nova" system (a system after the merger of two stars), but also provided us with more important information, that is, how this binary system evolved with time before the merger.

It is on the basis of observation data and modeling before the merger of Scorpio V1309 system that Professor molnar and others judged the system evolution of KIC 9832227, and predicted that the "close contact" between the two stars and the final merger would take place between September 2021 and September 2022.

What are you waiting for? Go and put up a countdown card for the upcoming red star!

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