The Communist Party of China (CPC) has taken down 5,836 local “handlers” in the past year. At a recent meeting of the Communist Party’s Politburo, Xi Jinping stressed the need to strengthen supervision of the key minority of officials at all levels, especially the “handlers. Analysis suggests that the highest level of the CCP is focusing on the “handlers” to deter officials before the 20th National Congress.
According to a Feb. 2 article on the official website of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, 5,836 “handlers” above the county level were filed for review last year, with Hubei handling 923 of the cases. The article also said that discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels focus on the key minority, punishing disciplinary violations “a hand”.
According to the article, after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China investigated and punished cadres, the main problem occurred in a handful of posts of more than 100 people. The article cited data that a significant proportion of the handlers fell. For example, last year, Hubei Province dealt with 923 cases related to “one hand”, including 18 cases involving “one hand” at the department and bureau levels, and 264 cases involving “one hand” at the county level. In Guangxi, a total of 1,011 people were reported to be “in charge” of the problem, and 726 people at all levels were punished.
The article named Zhang Qi, a former member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Committee and former secretary of the Haikou Municipal Committee. The article said that between 2010 and 2018, he helped a number of private business owners to obtain nearly 7,000 mu of land in Danzhou, Sanya and Haikou in violation of the law. Among them, Zhang helped a real estate developer illegally set exclusive conditions to illegally acquire more than 1,000 mu of land, which in turn occupied geological parks and ecological forest land, causing the state to lose billions of yuan.
Since April 2017, Hainan has investigated and dealt with a total of 515 cases of corruption in the field of engineering, with a total of 536 “hands”, a ratio of 30%.
Regarding the investigation of “one hand”, Xi Jinping emphasized the central inspection work and anti-corruption at the Politburo meeting on Jan. 28, saying that the inspection should be “full coverage”, focusing on power and responsibility, and strengthening the supervision of the leading team and key minorities at all levels, especially “The meeting of the Politburo emphasized the central inspection work and anti-corruption.
Hong Kong current affairs commentator Liu Ruishao told Apple Daily that compared to the total number of Chinese Communist Party officials and cadres, the Commission for Discipline Inspection only mentioned that more than 5,000 people were investigated at the county level, the number is really very small, but “raised high and slowly beaten down”. In his analysis, the CCP’s recent frequent references to the supervision of the “handlers” are believed to be related to the upcoming 20th Communist Party Congress, as local party cadres have long been lazy in carrying out the central government’s directives, and now the CCP is giving orders from the top to deter subordinates and make them do something.
Li Hengqing, a scholar at the Institute for Information and Strategic Studies in Washington, said that before the 20th CPC Congress, “2022 is a Life-and-death battle for Xi Jinping, either he may be able to practice his lifelong re-election or it may be his Waterloo,” so he wants to strengthen the supervision of provinces, autonomous regions, ministries, and political and business enterprises The supervision of “a handful”.
Senior commentator Tang Jingyuan said that one of the main reasons why Xi Jinping stressed on strengthening the supervision of the “one hand” is to prevent the “one hand” from preventing him from being re-elected next year.
He said that Xi Jinping is now putting the party’s “handlers” under strict surveillance in order to prevent these people from ganging up on him and preventing him from being re-elected next year. The “handlers” of provinces, cities and ministries are the ones who really have the power.
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