The CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission website released news on February 19 that Tan Xiaorong, deputy secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of Political and Legal Affairs, suspected of serious disciplinary violations, has taken the initiative to surrender and is currently under disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the Chongqing Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision.
The 58-year-old Tan Xiaorong is a native of Shizhu, Chongqing, served in Shizhu County Linxi Middle School in the early days, official to the deputy director of the Shizhu County Education Commission; in 1997 began to work in the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee Organization Department, official to the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee Organization Department cadre supervision division director; in 2012 began to serve as the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee Political and Legal Committee Political Department director, until 2017 as deputy secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee Political and Legal Committee.
Public opinion has observed that a number of officials from the local to the central government who are or have been in China’s public security system have recently fallen from grace. This includes Deng Cullin, the head of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau, who was announced to be under investigation in June 2020. Several successive chiefs of Chongqing’s municipal public security bureau have fallen, as well as Wang Lijun, who sparked the “escaping from the museum” incident.
In addition, the Chinese Communist Party‘s inspection agency recently gave feedback that the Ministry of Public Security has “not enough in place to purge the influence of Zhou Yongkang, Meng Hongwei and Sun Lijun,” and that the inspection team also received clues reflecting the problems of some leading Communist Party cadres, which were referred to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Central Organization Department for handling.
Tan Xiaorong (second from left) attends a news conference at Chongqing Municipal Government on Sept. 1, 2020. (Weibo @chongqingrelease)
In the face of all these signs, some analysts believe that there may be another purge storm in the CCP’s political and legal system, including the CCP’s Ministry of Public Security.
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