Cai Qi, secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Beijing Municipal Committee, has dealt with officials accused of ineffective epidemic prevention twice in the middle and end of last year.
As a new wave of epidemics in China’s provinces and cities becomes more severe, the State Supervision Commission of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection issued an article on its official website today, criticizing officials in many places for being paralyzed and war-weary in epidemic prevention, claiming that the authorities “find one and investigate and punish one.
In response to the recent spread of the Communist Party virus in several provinces and cities in China, including Liaoning, Beijing, Hebei and Heilongjiang, the CCDI issued an article criticizing officials in some cities for their paralysis and aversion to warfare, such as the failure to implement disinfection of cold chain products before entering the warehouse in Wuxian, Hubei, and the failure to conduct virus nucleic acid tests for vehicle employees.
The article also pointed out that some cadres interfered with the prevention and control of the epidemic, such as village cadres in Shaoyang, Hunan, who were not on duty; and officials in Dalian, Shenyang, who disobeyed management and made inappropriate remarks in WeChat work groups while participating in voluntary epidemic prevention work in isolated hotels.
The article emphasizes that local disciplinary organs should also adequately supervise, investigate and deal with disciplinary violations and law-breaking issues.
In fact, the Communist Party has always been “accountable” to officials, but in the Communist system, officials are dealt with wherever there is an epidemic, which is one of the reasons for officials to conceal the epidemic.
In a recent article in Voice of Hope, current affairs commentator Wei Jin argues that the outbreak of the CCP virus in China was destined to be a political epidemic from the very beginning. Not only because of the inertia of the CCP’s authoritarian approach to maintaining stability, but also because Xi Jinping gave orders to the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission as early as January 17, 2020, before the Wuhan epidemic was made public, to prioritize regime security over life safety throughout the year, which is why the epidemic was concealed and allowed to spread rapidly around the world.
The article mentions that in the past year, what is still visible to the outside world is the CCP’s highly questionable epidemic data and Beijing’s efforts to blame foreign countries for the epidemic, as well as the CCP’s top-level internal scapegoating. In terms of scapegoats, Xi was the first to find a number of officials, including the secretaries of Hubei and Wuhan. Top local officials followed suit.
On Jan. 6, in Shijiazhuang, which was hardest hit by the epidemic, Feng Zhiqiang, deputy mayor of Gaocheng District, and three others were accused of “ineffective prevention and control of the epidemic” and were held accountable.
In Beijing, the capital, which is also caught in a new wave of epidemics, Xi Jinping’s close confidant Cai Qi once again took the axe to lower-level officials. On the last day of last year, Cai Qi put five grassroots officials in Beijing’s Shunyi district on “accountability”. And when a local epidemic broke out in Beijing last May, Cai Qi quickly removed three officials from the Fengtai district. Anyone with eyes can see that they were scapegoats.
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