Former Shanghai Mayor Yang Xiong died in the early hours of April 12 at the age of 68 due to ineffective medical treatment.
Former Shanghai mayor Yang Xiong died suddenly of a heart attack recently, and Meng Jianzhu, former secretary of the political and legal committee, showed up again to attend Yang Xiong’s funeral. Meng Jianzhu also served as Shanghai’s mayor, and in recent years Meng has been plagued by scandals, with a number of old ministries falling one after another, and rumors abound that Meng is in bad shape.
Yang Xiong was a close friend of Jiang Mianheng
According to official media reports, Yang Xiong died in the early hours of April 12 at the age of 68 due to medical treatment, and his funeral was held at Longhua Funeral Hall in Shanghai on the morning of April 16. Current Shanghai Party Secretary Li Qiang, former Shanghai Mayor Meng Jianzhu and other officials who served in Shanghai attended the funeral.
Yang Xiong worked in Shanghai for many years, and the city was the lair of Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin, who served under him when he was secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee. in December 2012, Yang Xiong succeeded Han Zheng as acting mayor of Shanghai, and was soon transferred to a full position. Yang Xiong, who is not a member of the Central Committee, became the mayor of Shanghai, breaking the record of Shanghai politics and causing an uproar in the outside world.
It was later revealed by foreign media that Xi Jinping originally wanted to send a close friend to take over Shanghai, but was obstructed by Jiang Zemin’s eldest son Jiang Mianheng. Yang Xiong is said to be a close associate of Jiang Mianheng. After he left his post as mayor of Shanghai, he took up a key position as head of the university council at the Shanghai University of Science and Technology, known as Jiang Mianheng’s “independent kingdom.
According to official reports, in mid-June 2016, then-Shanghai Mayor Yang Xiong was interviewed by the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and gave an inspection at a meeting of the Shanghai Municipal Standing Committee. His problems involved three issues common to senior Communist Party officials: involvement in abusive granting of projects, bribery and personal life style indiscretions.
In February 2017, Yang Xiong retired to the financial and economic committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) National People’s Congress as deputy chairman. in March 2018, he moved to the CPPCC system.
In 2018, photos of Yang Xiong standing against a wall on a Shanghai street with a vest bag in his hand, talking to a passerby, were circulated online. At that time, Sina microblogging authentication named “history spring network editor-in-chief Lu abandoned” posted, “once the mayor of Shanghai, leaning against a wall with a vest bag in his hand on Fuxingzhong Road, without the front and back, looks a little lonely …… “
During his tenure in Shanghai, Yang Xiong followed Jiang Zemin’s rogue group and actively participated in the persecution of Falun Gong. According to a report by Minghui.com, as of 2020, the number of Falun Gong practitioners who have been persecuted to death in Shanghai over the years has been verified to be 30 by name. The number of those illegally imprisoned and sentenced is even more numerous.
Meng Jianzhu’s Scandal-Ridden 4 Old Ministries Fall
It is worth mentioning that Meng Jianzhu, who attended Yang Xiong’s funeral, was also the mayor of Shanghai and later became the secretary of the Political and Legal Committee. Meng Jianzhu was also one of the main fighters of Jiang Zemin’s group to break Falun Gong.
Meng Jianzhu has been plagued by scandals and four of his former ministers have fallen from grace.
In recent years, Meng Jianzhu, who has retired, has been the subject of frequent adverse news. Four of his former ministers have fallen in succession, including Sun Lijun, vice minister of the Communist Party’s Ministry of Public Security; Deng Zuolin, former vice mayor and public security chief of Chongqing; Gong Daogan, vice mayor and city public security chief of Shanghai; and Wang Like, secretary of Jiangsu’s Political and Legal Committee.
At one point, there were rumors that Meng Jianzhu was “seriously ill and hospitalized” and was taken away for investigation. It is rumored that Meng Jianzhu has been closely monitored by the authorities, restricting his freedom and nailing the doors and windows to prevent him from committing suicide, just like the “replica” of when Xu Caihou, vice chairman of the military commission, was locked up in the military’s 301 hospital until his death.
The State Council held its usual “November” reception in Beijing on the evening of September 30 last year, and Meng Jianzhu, who has not been seen for a long time and has been repeatedly rumored to have negative news, showed up, the official seems to have the intention of dispelling rumors. The funeral of Yang Xiong is the second time that Meng Jianzhu has appeared in public.
The government is currently conducting a major purge of the political and legal system, ordering the purge of Zhou Yongkang, Sun Lijun and other remnants of the poison. Gao Guangjun, a U.S. lawyer and former teacher at the Communist Party’s Public Security University, analyzed Xi’s purge of “dissidents” in the political and legal system, pointing to Meng Jianzhu.
Gao Guangjun told VOA that Xi has not been able to fully grasp the “knife handle” of the political and legal system since he came to power, and that this is a major problem for Xi. After Xi took down former Politics and Law Committee Secretary Zhou Yongkang, he relied on Meng Jianzhu, a Jiangxi native who also belongs to the Jiang faction.
According to Gao Guangjun, when Xi authorities criticized Sun Lijun, they said he was a “two-faced person”, but in fact they were talking to Meng Jianzhu, who is the real “two-faced person”. The fall of Shanghai Public Security Bureau chief Gong Daogan, who is a direct descendant of Meng Jianzhu, is also extraordinary, signaling that Meng’s situation is not good.
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