The Chinese Communist Party‘s officialdom is not expected to be quiet before the 20th anniversary. In the last three days, the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) has hit two tigers in a row: Wang Fuyu, chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Guizhou Province, and Zhang Xinqi, former deputy director of the Shandong Provincial People’s Congress. Both were investigated several years after they left office, leading to speculation that there was another reason behind the incident.
On February 23, the official Chinese Communist Party issued a message saying that Zhang Xinqi is suspected of serious disciplinary violations and is currently under disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the State Supervision Commission of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Zhang Xinqi thus became the second “tiger” of the year of the ox after Wang Fuyu.
The 64-year-old Zhang Xinqi has been serving in Shandong Province, especially between 1994 and 2006, his career rose steadily, serving as deputy secretary of the municipal party committee of Laizhou, mayor, municipal party secretary; Weifang, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, mayor, municipal party secretary and other positions, from the county-level city deputy gradually rose to a prefecture-level city hand. During this period, Wu Guanzheng and Zhang Gaoli, members of Jiang Zemin’s faction, were successively secretary of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee and took control of Shandong.
Before Xi Jinping came to power, Zhang Xinqi had a period of rapid rise, being appointed deputy secretary of the CPC Qingdao Municipal Committee in December 2011, becoming acting mayor of Qingdao a month later, and being promoted to deputy secretary, mayor and party secretary of the CPC Qingdao Municipal Committee in March 2012, making him a deputy provincial-level official.
During his tenure as mayor of Qingdao, Zhang Xinqi was ridiculed as the “mayor of tree planting” for his controversial RMB 4 billion tree planting and received an administrative warning for the Crude Oil pipeline leak explosion, but he still stepped down safely in 2017 and retired to become the deputy director of the Standing Committee of Shandong Provincial People’s Congress, and later stepped down again in January 2018. He stepped down in January 2018.
Zhang Xinqi fell three years after leaving officialdom, the official did not announce the reasons for his investigation, the outside world is focused on whether he will be involved in other giant tigers.
Two days before Zhang Xinqi’s fall, on February 21, Wang Fuyu, who had stepped down as chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in 2018, was investigated for alleged serious disciplinary violations.
What is surprising is that Wang Fuyu had career interactions with Xi Jinping’s beloved Li Zhanshu – Wang Fuyu had worked in Guizhou province for more than 13 years from December 2004, when he was transferred to the post of deputy secretary of the Guizhou provincial party committee, to January 2018, when he stepped down as chairman of the provincial CPPCC, during which Time he served as deputy to Li Zhanshu, who was also the deputy of the current Chinese Communist Party He was also a colleague and subordinate of Zhao Kezhi, the current minister of public security.
Therefore, some observers speculate that Wang Fuyu’s fall may be a backlash against Xi Jinping’s faction by Zhao Leji, secretary of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The recent foreign media release on the wealth of Jiang Zemin’s Family, Xi Jinping’s high-profile commemoration of Hua Guofeng and calls for a rewrite of the party’s history and other actions, Xi Jinping and Jiang Zemin’s faction has been in open warfare, suspected by the Jiang faction arranged for the ascendancy of Zhao Leji or to play a role, before the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party political arena is difficult to stabilize.
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