As the 2021 National People’s Congress gets underway, Communist Party Vice President Wang Qishan, who has helped Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping fight corruption and tigers but has been rumored to be at odds with him in recent years, attended a meeting of the Hunan delegation on March 6 and mentioned Xi Jinping at least eight times in his speech.
According to the Communist Party’s mouthpiece Xinhua News Agency, the Hunan delegation held its third plenary session on the morning of March 6 to review the draft outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the 2035 Vision. Wang Qishan and Vice Premier Hu Chunhua attended the meeting.
Wang Qishan mentioned Xi Jinping eight times in his speech at the meeting, including the need to “take Xi Jinping Thought as the fundamental guideline”, to “take Xi Jinping Thought as the guide”, and to “find the direction of analysis and problem solving from Xi Jinping Thought”. The method” “to Xi Jinping as the core of the Party Central Committee to maintain a high degree of consistency”, and so on.
Wang Qishan, who was born in 1948, is 73 years old and is also listed as a member of the Communist Party’s princeling Family because he married Yao Mingshan, the daughter of Communist Party veteran Yao Yilin. He served as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection during Xi Jinping’s first term, taking charge of the fight against corruption and purging Xi of a large number of political enemies. However, he stepped down by the 19th CPC National Congress and then became vice president of the country at the two sessions in March 2018. Although Wang Qishan is ranked as the eighth most powerful person in the CCP, known as the “eighth standing committee,” the vice president does not have real power.
Last year, the CCP was under international siege, the domestic economy was in trouble, and the struggle within the party was fierce. Wang Qishan did not appear in public for several months for unknown reasons, and it was rumored that Wang Qishan had health problems. The company’s close friend, Ren Zhiqiang, was arrested and sentenced to a heavy prison term for criticizing Xi, and Wang Qishan’s old CDC colleague, Dong Hong, was also arrested, leading to rumors of infighting between Xi and Wang.
On Jan. 29 this year, HNA Group, which has deep ties with Wang Qishan, announced its bankruptcy and was taken over by the government. This is believed to mean that this former sphere of influence of Wang Qishan’s family was taken over by Xi Jinping.
And two days before that, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision website published an article criticizing Zhang Qi, the former secretary of Haikou, who once followed Wang Qishan in Hainan, saying that he was “enriching himself on the land”, “sitting on the land to make money” and “making money from the island The former secretary of Haikou, Zhang Qi, who used to follow Wang Qishan in Hainan, was described as “relying on the land to make money”, “sitting on the land to make money” and “making money from the island”.
A Radio Free Asia article commented, “Zhang Qi’s case was concluded at the end of last year, and the Discipline Inspection Commission suddenly and coincidentally revisited the case at this sensitive moment, which will indeed give the outside world a sense of ‘accusation’ and ‘excessive coincidence! The “Perception of ‘too much coincidence’!”
Observers believe that the two sessions of Wang Qishan out of position to hold Xi, suspected of disinformation, but also some unusual meaning.
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