Chinese Minister of State Security Xu Yongyue was forced to retire early due to his involvement in the “public mistress case. The “public mistress case” was a sensation and was widely reported by the mainland media.
Xu Yongyue, a former minister of state security, was allegedly involved in the case of Li Wei, the “public mistress” of a high-ranking Communist Party official, but was given a lighter sentence because of his “second-generation” background, his long-Time control of the Ministry of State Security, his possession of “too many secrets” of the Communist Party, and his work as Chen Yun’s secretary.
Former Minister of State Security in Public Mistress Case
After businesswoman Li Wei was brought under the control of the CCP police in October 2006, a large number of officials who had an affair with Li Wei, including Chen Tonghai, then Chairman of Sinopec, Du Shicheng, Secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee, Li Jiating, Governor of Yunnan Province, Liu Zhihua, Vice Mayor of Beijing, Wang Yi, Vice President of China Development Bank, Zheng Shaodong, Assistant Minister of Public Security, and Huang Song You, Vice President of the Supreme Court, surfaced.
The mainland media has publicly described Li Wei as a veritable “public lover” of senior officials. In her diary, she recorded more than a dozen high-ranking officials at the provincial and ministerial levels. She first maintained a close personal relationship with Chen Tonghai, then was introduced to Du Shicheng by Chen, and established a close relationship with Du, which led to her infiltration into Qingdao’s real estate sector. This is the much criticized “Public Mistress Gate” incident.
On February 19, Radio Free Asia reported that Li Jiating, Chen Tonghai, Liu Zhihua, Wang Yi and Zheng Shaodong, the five senior officials at the ministerial and vice-ministerial levels who had an affair with Li Wei, were given suspended death sentences; Du Shicheng and Huang Songyou were both sentenced to Life imprisonment; and Jin Renqing, then finance minister, and Xu Yongyue, then minister of state security, were disciplined by the party for their “careless friendships” with Li Wei, thus killing their chances of being promoted to the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.
According to the report, Xu Yongyue, the then minister of state security, not only approved the issuance of relevant documents for Li Wei to go to Hong Kong, but also approved her “special status” to enter and leave Hong Kong in the name of a key official on a “special mission”, and Li Wei then transformed herself into a Hong Kong resident. She was then transformed into a Hong Kong resident.
According to information, Li Wei became acquainted with the then governor of Yunnan Province, Li Jiating, in 1993, and settled in Huilai County, Guangdong Province, in December 1996, and was granted Shenzhen City status on December 25 of the same year, and registered in Hong Kong in 1998 with Oriental United Industries Limited and was granted a Hong Kong residence permit.
Li Wei was controlled by the police in October 2006, and Li Wei was released on Valentine’s Day in 2011.
According to the report, Li Wei was able to regain her freedom soon because of the special political background of one of her main lovers, Chen Tonghai, who is a “second-generation Red” and a “red man under Zhu Rongji”, Jin Renqing, and because of the large number of provincial and ministerial-level lovers she has outside of Chen Tonghai. In addition to her special political background, she also had a large number of lover’s husbands of senior provincial and ministerial officials other than Chen Tonghai, and all the secrets she kept from the public, which were her bargaining power with the CCP authorities during her “residence review”.
The Inside Story of Xu Yongyue’s Lighter Sentencing
According to the report, Xu Yongyue, then Minister of State Security, was seduced by businesswoman Li Wei, and the top decision makers of the Communist Party, led by Hu Jintao, were furious and had instructions to deal with the case seriously. But after the investigation, it was difficult to do anything about it. The difficulty lies in the fact that Xu Yongyue has been in charge of the State Security Minister for nine years and has too many secrets of the Communist Party and the state. If the matter is not handled properly and the conflict intensifies, it may lead to a wider range of trouble and cannot be closed.
“In addition to the important factor of the incomparable sensitivity of the post of State Security Minister, another important reason why Xu Yongyue was actually able to be internalized to retain his full ministerial retirement package is his own Red Generation origin and extraordinary political background backed by the power of the Chen Yun Family within the CCP.” The article said.
Xu Yongyue, born in July 1942, whose father was Xu Mingzhen, had a background in the Hong Kong underground and had studied at Hong Kong’s Tat Tak College. After the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, Xu Mingzhen secretly sneaked back to Beijing and never returned to Hong Kong, and later served as secretary to Chinese Communist general Chen Gung.
In the early 1990s, Xu served as a secret envoy of the Chinese Communist Party to the cross-strait peace talks, and in August 1992, he went to Taiwan in the name of visiting his family and met with then President of the Republic of China Lee Teng-hui to pave the way for the Koo-Wang talks.
In addition to his Red Generation background, Xu Yongyue also had close ties with former Chinese Communist Party leader Chen Yun.
In 1983, Xu Yongyue was Chen Yun’s political secretary, head of Chen Yun’s office and secretary of the party branch; in 1988, he also served as deputy secretary-general of the Central Advisory Committee.
It was not until 1993 that Xu Yongyue went down to the grassroots level and became a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Hebei Provincial Committee and Secretary of the Provincial Political and Legal Committee.
Xu Yongyue was appointed Minister of State Security of the CCP in March 1998 and was removed from his post in August 2007.
In another article, Radio Free Asia quoted a source as saying that for various reasons, the Chinese authorities finally decided to let Xu Yongyue step down and retire, and let his deputy Geng Huichang take over, bringing the matter to a haphazard conclusion.
The report said that Xu Yongyue turned 65 in July 2007, when he stepped down from his post, the official can say that it is “normal retirement at his age” to avoid causing shock. He disappeared from the political scene without a sound.
Xu Yongyue’s two predecessors and predecessors were both placed in jobs
In addition, Xu Yongyue’s two major proofs of the problem are: the official at the ministerial level who was removed from office almost at the same time as him was arranged to serve in the National People’s Congress; the two ministers of State Security before and after him were arranged to serve in the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference when they were almost 65 years old, and could retire at the age of 72, only Xu Yongyue “retired naked”.
Only Xu Yongyue retired “naked”. One person who was removed from his post almost at the same time as Xu Yongyue was Zhang Berlin, Minister of Personnel. But Zhang, who was not even an alternate member of the Central Committee, became a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People’s Congress (NPC) and deputy chairman of the NPC Law Committee in March 2008. And Xu Yongyue, then a member of the Central Committee, “retired naked.
Second, a more telling example is that Xu Yongyue’s predecessor, Jia Chunwang, became China’s top prosecutor in 2003 at the age of 65; Xu Yongyue’s successor, Geng Huichang, became deputy director of the CPPCC’s Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee in November 2016 at the age of nearly 65.
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