In the afternoon of June 18, 2007, when Zhang Mingqi, member of the Secretariat of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and head of the discipline inspection team, was introducing the latest progress in the case of the illegal kilns in Hongtong County, Shanxi, he said that Wang Dongji, of Caosheng Village in Hongtong County, had been relieved of his post as the Party branch secretary, and expelled from the Party.