The chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Bu Xiaolin, suddenly collapsed and was carried off the podium during a reading of the government’s work report at a meeting of the regional People’s Congress on Jan. 26, and has yet to appear. The two possible candidates are both women, one of whom has been implicated in the case of Premier Li Keqiang’s former “chief butler,” Yang Jing.
According to an article in the Hong Kong media Ming Pao, if Bu Xiaolin can recover, he should be among the national leaders of the Chinese Communist Party in two years. But if Bu Xiaolin’s health is not recovered in the short term, his successor will have to come from among the existing Mongolian officials at the vice ministerial level.
According to the CCP’s practice, the “head” of an autonomous minority region is an official of the region’s own ethnic group.
According to the article, there are two Mongolian officials at the deputy ministerial level in the 19th CPC Central Committee, both of whom are women: Wulan, deputy secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, and Wang Lixia, member of the Standing Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and secretary of the Hohhot Municipal Party Committee. These two are either the successors to Bu Xiaolin.
The 58-year-old Wulan is not related to the Wulanf Family, but is associated with Yang Jing, who was later dealt with in corruption, and was therefore transferred out of Inner Mongolia four years ago and went south to Hunan, seemingly excluded from the succession echelon in Inner Mongolia.
Wang Lixia, who is not yet 57 years old, is a Mongolian official from the original Liaoning province, who has been serving in Shaanxi earlier and was transferred to Inner Mongolia in October 2016, where she is less involved with Inner Mongolia personnel but has slightly less seniority.
There are also two other Mongolian members of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Standing Committee, namely Bai Yugang, the 55-year-old propaganda minister, and Duan Zhiqiang, the 57-year-old United Front Work Minister, but neither is as likely to take over as the two women mentioned above.
However, the article also points out that Beijing now adopts a policy of keeping senior officials who are physically ill to recuperate, and does not remove them from office easily, such as the ailing Hainan Secretary Liu Zhigui, who stayed in office until he retired at his age, and Emergency Management Minister Wang Yupu, who died of illness. So, as long as Bu Xiaolin’s illness is not a return, should not soon go to work.
Among the two aforementioned female official candidates, the one worthy of attention is Wulan, who was allegedly implicated in the case of Yang Jing, who was the chairman of Inner Mongolia district.
In July 1983, Wulan served in the Communist Youth League system for a long Time, serving as an office officer and deputy director of the Baotou Municipal Youth League Committee, deputy director of the Organization Department, and deputy secretary of the Municipal Youth League Committee; in June 1987, she became deputy secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Committee of the Communist Youth League; in November 1996, she was promoted to secretary of the Regional Youth League Committee and chairman of the Regional Youth Federation. In March 2003, he became the deputy secretary of Bayannur League Party Committee and governor of Bayannur League; in November 2003, he became the vice chairman of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; in November 2006, he became the standing committee member of the CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee and the minister of propaganda department; in October 2016, he became the deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Party Committee.
In June 1993, he became Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Committee of the Communist Youth League, and later served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee, Secretary of the Hohhot Municipal Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress. In 2008, he served in Beijing as Director of the State People’s Committee and Vice Minister of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee, and in November 2012, Yang Jing was elected Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee at the First Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee. In March 2013, he became State Councilor and Secretary General of the State Council, Secretary of the Party Group of the State Council, Secretary of the Working Committee of the Central State Organ, and President of the National School of Administration, becoming Li Keqiang’s “big butler” until his case was filed in February 2018.
On February 24, 2018, Yang Jing was notified that he had been sentenced to one year’s probation, administrative dismissal, and demotion to full ministerial level for serious disciplinary violations. In the briefing, Yang Jing was accused of having a long history of inappropriate interactions with unscrupulous business people and social workers, and using his position to influence the implementation of illegal acts and seek huge personal gains. The briefing also said that during the review, Yang Jing was able to admit and repent of his mistakes. After this there was no news.
There have been various accounts from the outside world as to why Yang Jing was removed from his post and demoted. Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao quoted sources as saying that it was related to Xiao Jianhua, the de facto controller of the “Tomorrow System”, who was brought back to Beijing from the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong and gave a thorough account of his involvement in the case, “which involved Yang Jing”.
The Oriental Daily News said that Yang Jing has a strong “regimented” background, and was involved with Ling Plan when he was secretary of the regiment in Inner Mongolia; in addition, Yang Jing had a Life style problem and had an affair with a woman in Inner Mongolia, which was continuously reported by the woman’s relatives.
According to an article in the Free Asia Review, Yang Jing and Sun Zhengcai were investigated at about the same time, but Yang Jing’s problems were less serious and were classified as “purely personal”.
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