On May 9, 2011, the Intermediate People's Court of Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, made a first-instance judgment on the bribe case of Xu Zongheng, the former mayor of Shenzhen Municipal People's Government. Xu Zongheng was identified to have received bribes amounting to more than 33.18 million yuan, and was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for the crime of accepting bribes.