In the early hours of April 12, 2021, former Shanghai Mayor Yang Xiong died suddenly at the age of 68. Yang Xiong was a close associate of Jiang Zemin’s eldest son, Jiang Mianheng, and after he left his post as mayor of Shanghai, he took up the important position of director of the university council at the Shanghai University of Science and Technology, which was known as Jiang Mianheng’s “independent kingdom”; as a ministerial-level official, Yang Xiong ranked in the university council of the Shanghai University of Science and Technology in a rare position before two vice-state-level officials. University of Science and Technology official website high-profile tribute to Yang Xiong, public Yang Xiong as mayor of Shanghai during the vigorous support of Shanghai University of Science and Technology details, highlighting Yang Xiong and Jiang Mianheng relationship is very shallow.
On April 12, both the Hong Kong newspaper Sing Tao Daily and its editorial office in Beijing’s Dovetail reported that Yang Xiong died of a heart attack in the early hours of April 12 at Shanghai Huashan Hospital. Xu Shiping, former president of Shanghai Oriental Network, quoted a friend as saying that Yang Xiong was sent to the hospital with a heart attack at around 10 p.m. on the 11th; he was pronounced dead at 0:20 a.m. on the 12th; the hospital concluded that he died suddenly of cardiac origin.
Yang Xiong is Jiang Mianheng’s beloved horse
Yang Xiong, born in November 1953, was a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Previously, overseas media quoted sources as saying that Yang Xiong rose to the position of Shanghai mayor thanks to “Er Jiang”. The “Er Jiang” refers to Jiang Zemin and Jiang Mianheng. Yang Xiong was under Jiang Zemin’s command when he was secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee. Yang Xiong was Jiang Mianheng’s trusted henchman. Yang Xiong had several encounters with Jiang before he started his political career in the Shanghai government in 2001. There are rumors that everyone in Shanghai knows that Yang Xiong is the mayor of Shanghai on the stage and Jiang Mianheng is the mayor of the underground, and that the mayor on the stage obeys the mayor of the underground.
In the early 1990s, after Jiang Mianheng returned to Shanghai, he set up Shanghai Lianhe Investment Co. Yang Xiong also served as chairman of Shanghai Airlines and chairman of the supervisory board of Shanghai Airlines Co. In 2001, Yang Xiong gave up business and joined politics, allegedly because of Jiang Mianheng. Yang Xiong has been the deputy secretary general, deputy mayor, standing committee member and executive vice mayor of Shanghai since February 2001.
At the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, Yang Xiong, then executive vice mayor of Shanghai, was not selected as a member of the Central Committee, neither as a member nor as an alternate member. Yang Xiong was “elected” as mayor on February 1, 2013. Shanghai mayor Yang Xiong is not a member of the Central Committee, breaking the record of Shanghai politics, the outside world outcry. Overseas media later reported the twists and turns, saying that Xi Jinping had intended to choose someone he trusted as Shanghai mayor, but was prevented from doing so by Jiang Mianheng’s stirring.
Yang Xiong’s career blocked from promotion to deputy state level
On Jan. 1, 2017, instead of appearing publicly to deliver a New Year’s message, as he had done in past years, Yang Xiong, as Shanghai’s mayor, only distributed text and audio recordings, and even more curiously, Yang’s message was read aloud by a female broadcaster.
On Jan. 17, 2017, Yang Xiong stepped down as mayor of Shanghai, and on Feb. 24, he became deputy chairman of the Finance and Economy Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), and in March 2018, he became deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the CPPCC.
This is the worst treatment of a retired Shanghai mayor in 26 years, and for the first time he did not receive vice-state treatment. Several previous Shanghai mayors such as Xu Kuangdi were at least at the vice state level.
The Hong Kong media reported in October 2016 that in the personnel change, Yang Xiong knew he was going to “retire” and had no hope of promotion, so he complained at the mayors’ meeting and the meeting of the city’s democratic parties, saying that “the completion of his term of office is already over the target” and that ” The local capable cadres will not be clean”, “it is not easy to manage the big Shanghai”.
According to reports, in mid-June 2016, Yang Xiong was interviewed by the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and made an inspection at a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Committee. His problems involved three issues common to senior Communist Party officials: abuses of power in granting projects, bribery and personal misconduct in life.
Yang Xiong was also photographed in 2018 standing against a wall in the streets of Shanghai with a vest bag in his hand. At that time, the Sina microblogging authentication named “history spring and autumn network editor-in-chief Lu abandoned” posted, “once the mayor of Shanghai, in the revival of the road in the hand carrying vest bag leaning against the wall, without the front and back, looks a little lonely, a passer-by is talking to him … …”
Shanghai University of Science and Technology official website issued an article to mourn Yang Xiong
On the day of April 12, the official website of Shanghai University of Science and Technology issued an article in tribute to Yang Xiong. According to the article, in June 2019, during Yang Xiong’s second term as director of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, the university prepared the 14th Five-Year Plan, established the Institute of Humanities and Sciences, the School of Biomedical Engineering, the Center for Large Science, and launched the construction of the Center for Future Medicine and the Center for Future Science.
The article also cites reports of Yang Xiong’s research at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology in September 2014, September 2016 and October 2016 and his participation in the University Council meetings in June 2019, December 2019 and October 2020 during his tenure as mayor of Shanghai.
Shanghai University of Science and Technology is said to be Jiang Mianheng’s independent kingdom
The Shanghai University of Science and Technology (SUST), of which Yang Xiong is the head of the university council, has been accused of being Jiang Mianheng’s independent kingdom.
In September 2013, the first batch of graduate students were enrolled in the university while it was still in preparation. In February 2014, Jiang Mianheng appeared in the official media for the first time as the president of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.
In January 2015, Jiang Mianheng stepped down as the president of the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. However, through the identity of the president of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, he still has direct or indirect access to the resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai. A large number of researchers from the Shanghai Academy of Biological Sciences were appointed as special professors by the Shanghai University of Science and Technology, including Geng Meiyu, the academic director of the Shanghai Institute of Drug Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who was reported by Rao Yi, a professor from the Capital Medical University.
Informed sources in the Shanghai Academy of Biological Sciences previously disclosed to Yanming Times that during Jiang Mianheng’s tenure as Vice President of CAS and President of the Shanghai Branch of CAS, he established the Shanghai Academy of Biological Sciences as his own interest and power turf through the merger and adjustment of institutes, allocation of research funds and personnel arrangements; and then used the resources of CAS and the Shanghai gang to establish his own independent kingdom — Shanghai University of Science and Technology. -Shanghai University of Science and Technology.
Sources close to the matter revealed that when Jiang Mianheng was vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a group of researchers from the Shanghai Academy of Biological Sciences were attracted to him and privately called him “Prince Jiang”; the Shanghai Academy of Biological Sciences and the Shanghai University of Science and Technology have thus become a platform for the interests of Jiang Zemin’s family and the Shanghai gang in the field of high-tech scientific research; many researchers have been approved through Jiang Mianheng’s route is often approved for key projects with funding of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of yuan, behind which there are huge interests involved in the shady business.
Yang Xiong seat rare more than two vice state-level senior officials
December 27, 2019, the official website of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology reported that the second meeting of the second session of the University Council of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology was held on December 22. The meeting was chaired by Yang Xiong, director of the university council, and attended by university council members Ding Zhongli, Chen Qun, Zhou Xiaochuan, Fu Chengyu, Zhang Jie, Gong Ke, Jiang Mianheng, and Li Ruxin, with university leaders Yin Jie, Zhu Zhiyuan, Lu Xionggang, Ding Hao, and Wu Qiang in attendance.
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On July 2, 2019, the official website of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology announced the composition of the second session of the University Council of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, respectively: Yang Xiong, Ding Zhongli, Chen Qun, Zhou Xiaochuan, Fu Chengyu, Zhang Jie, Gong Ke, Jiang Mianheng, Li Ruxin. Yang Xiong served as the director of the university council.
The above list of the University Council, Ding Zhongli for the National People’s Congress Standing Committee vice chairman, Zhou Xiaochuan for the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference vice chairman, two people at the deputy state level, Yang Xiong and other people are provincial officials level.
But in the official website of the Shanghai University of Science and Technology presented a group photo of the university council, the provincial ministerial-level official Yang Xiong in the middle of the nine people sitting, vice state-level senior officials Zhou Xiaochuan, Ding Zhongli sitting on either side of him.
Analysis: Shanghai gang and even Jiang Zemin family face deep cleaning before the 20th Congress
The Chinese Communist Party has a strict hierarchy of officials, the row of seats is extremely delicate, the group photo of such a row of seats highlighting Yang Xiong, which is unusual. As Jiang Mianheng’s horse, Yang Xiong, who was the mayor of Shanghai, failed to be elected as a member of the Central Committee; he failed to be promoted to the vice state level as usual after leaving his post as mayor of Shanghai, which shows Xi Jinping’s suppression of him and the Jiang Zemin family behind him. Jiang Mianheng’s high-profile appointment of Yang Xiong, the outgoing mayor of Shanghai, to a key position in his independent kingdom, the Shanghai University of Science and Technology, is even higher than the two vice state-level officials. Jiang Mianheng’s move is tantamount to an open confrontation with Xi Jinping. After Yang Xiong’s sudden death, the official website of the Shanghai University of Science and Technology (SUST) paid tribute to the high-profile details of Yang Xiong’s support for SUST during his term as mayor of Shanghai, once again highlighting Yang Xiong’s close relationship with Jiang Mianheng.
Li Yanming analyzed that in recent years, the dark secrets of senior Communist Party officials to extend their lives through organ transplants and other means have been continuously exposed. There are many CCP leaders who have lived to be over 90 or even 100 years old; there are also many senior officials who are still in office at the age of 68. The sudden death of Yang Xiong at the age of 68, a senior ministerial-level official with health care privileges, has led to speculation.
David Shambaugh, a U.S. “China expert” who has strongly supported Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong, said in a speech in Washington, D.C., in 2018 that someone in a delegation from Shanghai told him in November 2017 that the official circles in Shanghai were now filled with In a speech in Washington, D.C., David Shambaugh said in November 2017, someone from a delegation in Shanghai told him that the official circles in Shanghai were now filled with an atmosphere of “fear” and that people feared being taken away at night.
Li Yanming analyzed that before the 20th Communist Party Congress, the top-level infighting is white-hot, and Jiang Zemin’s Shanghai gang forces are being deeply cleansed by Xi Jinping’s camp. On April 7, Lv Yachen, a Shanghai gang executive and former vice president of Shanghai Electric Group, who was secretly connected to Jiang Zemin’s family, was investigated; five days later, on April 12, Jiang Zemin’s family’s stablemate Yang Xiong died suddenly. Whether the two are related or not is unknown, but there is no doubt that Jiang Zemin’s Shanghai gang and even Jiang Zemin’s family are facing an escalating anti-corruption “tiger” high pressure situation before the 20th CPC Congress.
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