On February 28, members of the Political Bureau and Secretaries of the Secretariat of the CPC, as well as the National People’s Congress, the State Council, the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the Supreme Court and the Supreme Prosecutor “reported to the Party Central Committee and General Secretary Xi Jinping“, the highest system of the Party and State without exception.
The CPC Constitution stipulates that the general secretary is responsible for convening meetings of the Central Political Bureau and the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, and presiding over the Central Secretariat. However, according to the decision of the 19th CPC National Congress, the top officials of the CPC, including members of the Standing Committee, are required to make an annual “written report” to Xi Jinping, and members of the Central Politburo make a written report to Xi Jinping, which is said to be the first since Xi Jinping’s presidency. This is the first Time since Xi Jinping’s presidency, and the time is usually in the sensitive period just before the “two sessions”.
This decision of the 19th Congress is a subversive decision, the so-called collective leadership of the Deng era collective decision-making system, the surface form no longer exists, the Standing Committee, Politburo members, Secretaries of the Secretariat, and all the leaders of the “five major institutions”, all have to write a written report.
The content of the “written report” is kept secret, but it can be seen from the Xinhua News Agency’s press release that these top party and state officials are required to “comprehensively review and summarize their thoughts and work in the past year, and write a report with a serious and sincere attitude and a high degree of responsibility. The report summarizes the experience, analyzes the problems and shortcomings, and puts forward the direction of next efforts around the overall situation.”
That is, to report to the highest leader what you have done this year, how your state of mind, analysis of your shortcomings, that is, to carry out self-criticism, and then listen to the leadership comments, and this leader is the only, the highest, he is the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping, he was originally a member of the Standing Committee, but no longer need to report to the Standing Committee, he only needs to listen to the report.
The Xinhua news agency’s circular does not shy away from saying, “The comrades concerned made written reports to the Party Central Committee and General Secretary Xi Jinping as required. Xi Jinping carefully reviewed the report and put forward important requirements”. And Xi Jinping this year’s “important requirements” in short: “stressed that this year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, is the ’14th Five-Year Plan’ opening year. Standing at the historical intersection of the ‘two hundred years’ goal, we must more closely unite around the Party Central Committee, in-depth study and implementation of the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, enhance the ‘four consciousness’, firm ‘four self-confidence’, to do ‘two maintenance’.”
The most crucial sentence of the above expression is the same old story, but it seems to have to be played: in-depth study and implementation of “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era”, because this sentence is Xi Jinping personally asked others to study, so the word “Xi Jinping” was removed. Then the most important is the “two maintenance”: “resolutely maintain the core of General Secretary Xi Jinping Party Central Committee, the core position of the whole party, resolutely maintain the authority of the Party Central Committee and centralized leadership.”
It looks like a big Parents‘ meeting, ear to ear, Premier Li Keqiang, other Standing Committee members, not to mention the Politburo members, have to report to the head of everyone, one like an elementary school student. Why in the “two sessions” before the report, analysts say that this is to absolutely unify the mind, to prevent the emergence of out-of-control situation.
This “written report” has been four years, year after year, the official media coverage seems to be increasingly simplified. This year, just a few hundred words, Xi Jinping’s important requirements simplified into five “instructions”: “First, resolutely the Party Central Committee’s decisions and deployments and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions into practice …… “; “two is to take the lead in studying and understanding Xi Jinping socialist thought with Chinese characteristics in the new era and the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Party Central Committee ……”; three is under the unified deployment of the Party Central Committee, and do a good job in the areas under its responsibility ……; “Fourth, strictly implement the system of requesting reports, implement democratic centralism, and consciously report major issues, major matters and important work progress to the Party Central Committee and General Secretary Xi Jinping for instructions …… “; “Five is to resolutely implement the requirements of the overall strict governance of the Party, and strictly implement the spirit of the eight provisions of the Central Government ……”
Observers think that such a written statement about reveals several information: Xi Jinping dictatorship has been directly forced Mao Zedong, the Party and State senior officials have all apparently subservient, but Mao Zedong relies on the so-called prestige of fighting rivers and mountains to “unify the world” and rely on “mobilizing the masses” when it is necessary to defeat who However, Xi Jinping relies on centralized power to suppress “forcible control” and mobilizing the masses is no longer the same as before; this is about why Xi Jinping needs to personally tell senior officials time and again to implement “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” and to The “two safeguards”. Xi also needs to declare victory one at a time, moving from victory to victory, declaring victory in the fight against the Epidemic, even though the early concealment of the epidemic caused China’s image to be seriously tarnished internationally; declaring a major victory in poverty eradication, even though the standard line for poverty eradication is very low, with “600 million people earning only 1,000 yuan a month. What’s more, there can’t be any mistakes, or mistakes can’t be admitted; there can’t be any mistakes in the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party, and the smooth transition is even more necessary for the 20th Congress itself to take over its own class next year.
Recent Comments