Li Wenxi, the 71-year-old retired former vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference of Liaoning Province, was announced by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to be under investigation, making him the first tiger to fall in 2021. Some commentary analyzes that Li Wenxi’s case also confirms that Xi Jinping‘s purge of officialdom has two characteristics.
At 8:30 p.m. on January 25, the State Supervisory Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China announced that Li Wenxi, former vice chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, is suspected of serious violations and is currently under investigation.
According to public information, Li Wenxi, born in March 1950, had worked in the public security system of Liaoning for a long Time. He had served as deputy mayor of Benxi County in Benxi City, deputy director of Benxi Public Security Bureau, assistant mayor of Benxi City, director of city public security, deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee of Political and Legal Affairs, deputy director and director of Liaoning Public Security Department, assistant mayor of Liaoning Province, director of the Provincial Public Security Department, and vice chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
The Beijing Daily reported that after stepping down and retiring, Li Wenxi served as vice president of the China Police Association. Until December 2019, he also attended events in his capacity as vice president of the China Police Association and “chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Police Association.
According to Hong Kong‘s Apple Daily, Li Wenxi has crossed paths with Bo Xilai, former secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Zhou Yongkang, former secretary of the Central Committee of Political and Legal Affairs. When Bo Xilai was governor of Liaoning province, Li Wenxi was the head of the Liaoning Public Security Department at the time. Li Wenxi was one of the many senior government officials, state-owned enterprise executives and tycoons involved in Zhou Yongkang’s case.
From January 22 to 24, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection was held in Beijing. Xi Jinping made a speech that clearly linked “anti-corruption” to the party’s political security, emphasizing that future key targets include “two-faced people who are submissive” and “black and evil involved” in the political and legal system. The “protection umbrella”.
In this regard, “Tianjun Political Economy” researcher Ren Chongdao believes that since the CPC Central Committee launched a pilot project to rectify the political and legal system in July last year, it shows that Xi Jinping began to focus on purging officials in the political and legal system, that is, entering the “clean-up” phase. Officials from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision (CCDI) began to announce the fall of officials in the political and legal system again on April 1, 2020. At the same time, the official media also frequently reported the trial and double-opening of officials of the political and legal system who had fallen before 2020. After checking, it is found that most of the above-mentioned officials in the political and legal system completed the most important promotion hurdle in their career before Xi Jinping came to power. Those who have served in the official circles of the Communist Party know very well that there are different hurdles in the process of promotion, and sometimes if they are stuck at a level for a long time, they need to find ways to “break through the bottleneck”, either by making political achievements, or by running for officials, or by using money to solve the problem.
The reason that the political and legal system has not been able to escape is because it has created too many unjust and fake cases, which have left a handle for Xi Jinping’s purge. In recent years, there have been many cases of retired officials being investigated for corruption, not only before they retired, but also after they retired, using their residual power to continue to “retire without resting”.
In Xi Jinping’s purge of the officialdom for the 20th Communist Party personnel layout, the political and legal system and retired officials have become a new feature, so it makes sense that Li Wenxi will be the first tiger in 2021.
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