Song Liang, executive vice governor of Gansu Province, has become the “second tiger” to start the year in 2021. Song has served in Inner Mongolia for many years, and his fall may be related to this resume. This reminds the outside world of Bu Xiaolin, the chairman of the Inner Mongolia region of the Communist Party of China, who collapsed at a meeting of the National People’s Congress not long ago.
Song Liang, 58, went to Inner Mongolia University in 1981 to study planning and statistics in the economics department, and stayed in Inner Mongolia after graduation, and by the Time he was parachuted into Gansu province in March 2017, he had been deeply involved in the officialdom of Inner Mongolia for 32 years. Therefore, the outside world estimates that Song Liang fell, the source should be in Inner Mongolia.
The land media, when taking stock of Song Liang’s curriculum vitae, specifically mentioned that he had worked for a long time in the General Office of the Inner Mongolia regional government, as deputy director. The official official did not specify whose secretary he was, but the deputy director of the General Office should not be a low ranking official.
Song Liang was deputy secretary of the Chifeng Municipal Party Committee from August 2011 to April 2014, director of the Inner Mongolia Department of Transportation from April 2014 to November 2015, secretary of the Wuhai Municipal Party Committee from November 2015 to November 2016, and secretary of the Tongliao Municipal Party Committee from November 2016 to March 2017.
With job transfers almost every one or two years, his official position continued to rise. In this case, he left Inner Mongolia in March 2017 to become a member of the Standing Committee of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and vice governor, it is believed that his backstage intends to let Song Liang through a foreign promotion to experience a bit, in order to prepare for further promotion. Sure enough, only 15 months after being parachuted into Gansu, Song Liang was promoted to executive vice governor of the province in June 2018, until he fell from the horse.
Song Liang not only has deep ties to the Inner Mongolia officialdom, but also appears to have a backstage in Beijing. The outside world is therefore particularly concerned about Liu Yunshan, a former member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Politburo, who is known as the “invisible king of Inner Mongolia.
Liu Yunshan started his career in Inner Mongolia, working in the propaganda system for more than 20 years before joining the CPC Central Propaganda Department as vice minister in 1993. Liu Yunshan’s Family has been stealing news of the country’s wealth by controlling mineral resources such as coal and molybdenum mines in Inner Mongolia. Many officials have given the green light to Liu’s family to make money while climbing on Liu Yunshan’s coattails.
Xi Jinping‘s family also has ties to Inner Mongolia. Overseas media have reported that Xi’s father, Xi Zhongxun, had a very close relationship with the “Mongolian King” Ulanhu, who often visited Inner Mongolia to play and recuperate, and that it was even suggested during the Cultural Revolution that Ulanhu had spent 10,000 RMB on Xi Zhongxun’s hospitality, which was used as evidence to criticize Ulanhu.
In the process of cleaning up the officialdom and repossessing power, Xi Jinping had over-promoted Ulanfu’s granddaughter Bu Xiaolin as the chairman of Inner Mongolia region in March 2016.
Since February last year, Xi has ordered a 20-year investigation into coal-related corruption in Inner Mongolia, and more than 50 officials have fallen since then. It is interesting to see if Song Liang’s investigation is related to this, and whether the case will lead the fire to Liu Yunshan further.
Bu Xiaolin suddenly fainted while giving a report at the fourth session of the 13th National People’s Congress in Inner Mongolia on January 26, and was absent from the closing ceremony of the CPPCC and NPC in Inner Mongolia on January 29 and 30. After the fall of Song Liang, there is speculation that Bu Xiaolin’s health problems may be related to the increasingly intense official infighting in Inner Mongolia.
The official website of the Chinese Communist Party‘s Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) announced on February 1 that Song Liang is suspected of serious disciplinary violations and is under investigation. Song Liang became the second “tiger” to fall this year. Before him, on January 25, Li Wenxi, former vice chairman of the Chinese Communist Party’s Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, was suspected of serious disciplinary violations and was under investigation.
With the approach of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the outside world expects that there will be some more bloodshed in the official circles of the Communist Party.
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