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Xi Jinping summoned senior officials to a seminar on right and wrong

On January 11, the Chinese Communist Party authorities held the opening ceremony of a so-called “special seminar on the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee” at the Central Party School (National School of Administration) for “major leading cadres” at the provincial and ministerial levels, and Xi Jinping delivered a speech. Some sources told the outside world that not only were those senior officials who are not members of the Communist Party not able to attend the meeting, but also had other discriminatory treatment.

In addition, on January 10, at 2 p.m., an explosion occurred at the Wushan gold mine in Xicheng Town, Qixia City, Shandong Province, but it took 30 hours before it was reported in the media. The authorities said that the enterprise involved in the problem of “late reporting”, has been controlled by the person in charge of the enterprise. The Hong Kong media disclosed that the official had actually received the report long ago, but only because Xi Jinping was going to make a “very important” speech, the news was withheld, and the person in charge of the company involved was actually a “scapegoat” for Xi Jinping and the public security.

Hong Kong media reports pointed out that the occurrence of such a large explosion, local departments at all levels should be immediately reported to the layers, the reason why all parties are so slow to respond, because the morning of January 11, Shandong Provincial Party Secretary Liu Jiayi, Governor Li Ganjie to attend a seminar attended by seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee, and Xi Jinping to deliver a “very important” speech speech, therefore, Liu Jiayi, Li Ganjie can not show up to issue rescue instructions, those Shandong Province, Yantai City, Qixia City officials can only wait. Until the evening of the 11th, Xinhua News Agency announced Xi Jinping’s speech and the news of the seminar, Liu Jiayi and Li Ganjie were “free” and allowed to meet with the media, and the two announced that they had taken urgent leave to return to Shandong.

At the opening ceremony of the seminar, in addition to the Standing Committee of the CPC Political Bureau, Wang Qishan also attended a rare appearance. This is the first time that the top echelon of the CPC has made a collective appearance in public since the New Year. Xi talked about the need to enhance the viability of the CCP, while Wang Qishan also made a rare appearance. Analysts point out that Xi’s speech leaked the hidden worries of internal and external difficulties, while the top echelon of the Communist Party appeared together with the intention of “dispelling rumors”.

Centuries-old party not going far, Xi Jinping under pressure

On January 15, the Chinese Communist Party magazine “Seeking Truth” published the contents of a talk given by Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping at a symposium of experts in the economic and social fields in August last year. He warned at the time that the world was entering a period of turbulent change, facing “a great change unprecedented in a century” and that China would face more “adverse winds and waters” in the future and must be prepared to deal with them.

Xi Jinping’s phrase “the greatest change the world has seen in a hundred years” reflects the sense of urgency and great pressure from the top leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on the multiple crises it is currently facing, said Xie Tian, chair professor at the University of South Carolina Aiken School of Business.

Li Hengqing, an economist at the Institute for Information and Strategic Studies, agrees that Xi is gradually realizing that the CCP is facing an unprecedented crisis after changing its diplomatic landscape, and that he now has to take action to save the party and himself.

The Chinese Communist Party has recently made a big deal of its upcoming 100th anniversary. According to the U.S. media, the CCP is facing challenges from institutional corruption, economic development, social conflicts and many other aspects, and the century-old party is afraid that it will not go much further. And one day it will be thrown into the garbage heap of history and nailed to the pillar of shame.