Xi Jinping asked to strengthen the supervision of “a hand”, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection inventory of fallen officials. (Image source: video screenshot)
According to a Feb. 2 article on the official website of the Chinese Communist Party‘s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), 5,836 “handlers” at or above the county level were filed for review last year, with Hubei handling 923 of the cases. Hong Kong media quoted commentators as saying that Xi Jinping hopes to deter officials and reduce civil discontent before the 20th Communist Party Congress.
This article by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection points the finger at the “handlers” around the country, apparently following Xi Jinping’s call to “strengthen supervision of the ‘handlers'” at the Jan. 28 meeting of the CPC Political Bureau. The article says that the “one hand” of the political bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) made a request at the meeting on January 28.
According to the article, a hand in charge of a party, often become the focus of the roundup, the Chinese Communist Party after the 19th National Congress to investigate and punish officials, the main problem occurred in a hand on the post of more than 100 people. Last year, for example, the discipline inspection and supervision organs in Hubei Province handled 923 cases related to the head, including 18 cases involving the head of the bureau level and 264 cases at the county level; Guangxi discipline inspection and supervision organs reported a total of 1,011 people involved in the problem of the head, and 726 people at all levels of the head were punished.
The article also cites two examples, one is a typical example of “enrichment by land” allegedly related to Wang Qishan – Zhang Qi, former member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee and former secretary of the Haikou Municipal Committee, and the other is Yang Hongwei, secretary of the Qianjiang District Committee of Chongqing, who worked as a secretary for Jiang faction heavyweight He Ting.
Hong Kong’s Apple Daily quoted current affairs commentator Liu Ruishao as saying that the Chinese Communist Party’s recent frequent references to the supervision of a handful of people is believed to be related to the upcoming 20th National Congress, because local party cadres have long been lazy in carrying out the instructions of the central government, and now the Chinese Communist Party is giving orders from above, in an attempt to deter subordinates and make them do something, to reduce civil discontent before the 20th National Congress and reduce the variables of power layout.
Li Hengqing, a scholar at the Institute for Information and Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C., said that with the 20th Communist Party Congress less than two years away, “2022 is a Life-and-death battle for Xi Jinping, either he may be able to carry out his lifelong re-election or it may be his Waterloo,” so he wants to strengthen the supervision of the “handlers” in provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions, ministries, and political and business enterprises.
Li Hengqing also mentioned that the combination of the “new term” is the layout of the personnel for the 20th Congress, Xi Jinping has a deep political purpose, “in the next one to one and a half years, will not be used for two years, Xi Jinping to carry out large-scale personnel adjustments, he wants to re-structure the layout. “
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