Internal documents that expose the CCP’s contingency plans to simulate various contingencies ahead of the 2019 ASEAN Business and Investment Summit. The documents show that the CCP took several measures to prevent participants from making unfavorable remarks and completely blocked negative news, among others. Although the authorities have done a lot of preparation, the summit still ended up with a lot of problems.
Exclusive: Internal documents leak contingency plans for 16th China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit
The 16th China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was held in Nanning, Guangxi, from Sept. 21 to 24, 2019. The theme of the conference is related to the Communist Party’s “One Belt, One Road”.
Recently, the “16th China-ASEAN Expo China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit opening conference emergency response comprehensive exercise program” was obtained. The document shows that the rehearsal of the meeting will be held on Sunday, September 17, 2019, from 20:00 to 22:00 pm at the Golden Guihua Hall of Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center.
The authorities have set up an on-site emergency command leadership team for this purpose, with on-site command desk leaders: Yang Jinbai, Huang Ruisheng, Yang Bin, Wang Lei, Gan Yi, Chen Yiping, Jiang Liansheng, Shi Donglong, Li Changguan and Gaoshan.
Information shows that Yang Jinbai was the then vice chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region government, Huang Rusheng was the deputy secretary-general of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Party Committee and deputy director of the General Office, Gan Yi was the vice minister of the Guangxi Autonomous Region Party Committee propaganda department and director of the government information office, and Wang Lei was the director of the Guangxi International Expo Affairs Bureau and secretary of the party group.
At the same Time, the authorities set up 19 emergency disposal teams. Such as emergency on stage, protocol emergency, live media emergency, audience VIP 1-8 area emergency, core area media emergency team, etc.
The drill included the emergency measures to be taken after the emergence of the 18 emergencies most feared by the CPC.
In the event of a stage facility collapse: Guangxi authorities will first terminate the meeting, be responsible for guiding the evacuation of people on stage, and issue instructions to terminate media propaganda coverage.
Leaders fainting or feeling sick on stage: order to switch to play the meeting logo or propaganda film and other images, and order to terminate the webcast.
Guest speakers making unfavorable remarks: stop interpreting by simultaneous interpreters in the corresponding languages; cut off the live broadcast of alternate Music; immediately terminate the live broadcast signal and order the termination of the webcast; control the guests and immediately take them away from the scene through the nearest exit.
Audience throwing miscellaneous objects to the podium: first arrest people and take them away from the scene; security bureau personnel in front of the podium block with umbrellas; switch the broadcast screen and order to terminate the webcast.
Audience shouting slogans: control people first and take them away from the scene: play alternate music immediately; switch the broadcast screen and order to terminate the webcast.
Audience pulling slogan banners, throwing and distributing leaflets: switch the playback screen, play prepared audio content, order to terminate the webcast; take people away from the scene and collect the slogan banners and leaflets.
Wrong standing position of leaders on stage for opening: lead leaders to the correct position from the west and east side of the stage, then ask leaders to announce the opening and opening.
Temporary change in the order of the leaders’ convoy: immediately notify XXX to sing the name and switch the corresponding country’s signature prop.
Leaders forget to bring their speeches: give the script to one of them and send it to the leaders.
Exclusive: The 16th China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit still has several problems
The China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit Command Center’s November 6, 2020, “Notice on the Report of Rectification and Implementation of Problems at the 16th Session of the Two Meetings” was obtained. The document leaked that although the CPC had made a lot of emergency preparations for the meeting, the summit still ended up with multiple problems.
In the section on “Foreign Protocol Work,” the Indonesian trade minister was left at the back of the line at the welcome banquet, indicating that the protocol work at the East China Expo had been unprofessional.
In the section of “domestic exhibition recruitment work”, the document says that the positioning of some exhibition areas is not clear enough, the recruitment capacity is not enough, the concentration of exhibits is not enough, and the professionalism needs to be improved; the quality of exhibitors in the exhibition center still needs to be improved, and there are problems in the planning of exhibition areas and the industry categorization of the exhibition work department (exhibition business group), etc.
In terms of “foreign exhibition recruitment”, the quality of exhibitors (such as the “Belt and Road” exhibition area) needs to be improved; the exhibition area of the East China Expo cannot meet the demand of ASEAN countries; the channel setting of the ASEAN countries’ pavilion is disorganized; the participation of some foreign supporting business associations is not high, and the level of some representatives of business associations coming to the exhibition is low; the phenomenon of selling booths in the exhibition area of individual ASEAN countries (such as Dongpu Zhai).
There are also many problems in the “investment work”.
For example, some exhibition areas (such as construction materials, construction machinery and transport vehicles, intelligent energy and power exhibition area) have relatively few buyers and insufficient on-site traffic; there are difficulties in recruiting foreign buyers for the East Expo.
In the section of “On-site Graphic Review”, it is stated that many exhibitors uploaded graphics that were not used in the on-site construction, and many unexamined contents, including wrong maps, were found to be used in the booths during on-site review; some exhibitors refused to modify the wrong graphic contents (including maps) or remove the wrong promotional materials.
In the area of “press and propaganda work”, it was mentioned that the core documents given to the press and propaganda department were too few, and twice in a row, the public signal team was unable to enter the venue to carry out their work due to their documents.
Exclusive: Inside the Communist Party’s Control of the 17th Business and Investment Summit
On November 27, 2020, the 17th China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit of the Chinese Communist Party was held in Nanning.
Internal documents obtained recently have leaked some of the inner workings of the CCP’s control ahead of this summit.
The “Registration Form for Matters Agreed at the Meeting,” produced by the authorities on October 20, 2020, said it was about “a meeting to report on the work of the Ministry of Information and Propaganda. The document reveals that “public opinion control should be strengthened and media propaganda should be done well” to create a “thick and warm atmosphere” for the “two sessions.
October 21, 2020 “meeting agreed matters registration form”, which is to Shanghai to study and study the work of the Fair debriefing meeting. The document says that the members of the command center of the Big Data Bureau were increased, and a working group consisting of several units and departments jointly formed by the autonomous region’s Public Security Department, the Big Data Bureau, the health Commission, and the Guangxi Expo Bureau was established to integrate data information on security, Epidemic prevention, and documents.
The document reveals that the work idea of “the whole region to protect Nanning, Nanning to protect the core area” is to develop a higher standard of “security and stability maintenance program” in Guangxi during the “two sessions”, “to further prevent foreign forces from carrying out unfavorable propaganda during the “two sessions” through online or offline, and stabilize the social situation in the region.
Commentary: At the End of the Road, the CCP Focuses on Controlling Everything
Under the rule of the Communist Party of China (CPC), public discontent is boiling in mainland society. In response, the CCP has escalated its means of controlling online speech.
Current affairs commentator Li Linyi said, now the CPC has to formulate various “stability control” measures even for an international conference. From internal documents, it can be seen that the CCP not only wants to control the speech of foreign guests and block negative news, but even the maps displayed in the conference venue are not to their liking and are also included in the scope of rectification. At the end of the road, the CCP is more concerned about controlling everything, but this also makes the CCP more desperate.
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