Less than a year from the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Zhongnanhai launched a campaign to educate and reorganize the political and legal teams in the official circles, opening the door to officials of the political and legal departments, and Chen Xinxin, deputy head of the “National Leading Group for Education and Rectification of Political and Legal Teams” and director of the office, went to Tianjin for research, saying that the education and rectification has entered “deep water”. The “deep water”. The mainland has been investigating officials of the political and legal system for 20 years, directly back to the period of Jiang Zemin’s rule.
CCP opens knife to political and legal system to eliminate political hidden dangers
Official Chinese Communist Party media reported that on April 12, Chen Xinxin went to Tianjin, which is less than 150 kilometers from Beijing. According to reports, Chen Xinxin led a research team to Tianjin in his capacity as deputy head of China’s “National Leading Group for Education and Rectification of Political and Legal Teams and director of the Office. During his public speech, Chen Xinxin said that the Chinese Communist Party’s political and legal system “has entered the education and rectification process, which is a critical part of the process to get to the heart of the matter,” and that “the education and rectification process is gradually entering the ‘deep water’ area.
Chen Xinxin was once a former member of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping’s team in Zhejiang province, and the campaign is said to be a further clean-up of the political and legal system, which is known as the “knife handle.
The Communist Party’s nationwide education and rectification of the political and legal forces began in February this year.
On Feb. 27, the Communist Party’s “National Leading Group for Education and Rectification of Political and Legal Teams” made its first appearance, with Guo Shengkun as its leader and Zhao Kezhi, Zhou Qiang, Zhang Jun, Yu Hongqiu, Fu Xingguo, Chen Xinxin, Chen Wenqing and Tang Yijun as its deputy leaders. Not only does it involve the heads of the major systems of the CCP’s law, inspection and public security departments, it also includes the leading members of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Central Organization Department and the Central Propaganda Department.
In the mobilization meeting on February 27, it was clearly emphasized that “we should learn from the lessons of some leading political and legal cadres’ serious violations of discipline and law, especially serious violations of political discipline and political rules, and thoroughly investigate the “two-faced faction” “two-faced people” who engage in gangs and cliques and form parties for personal gain. The “people”, thoroughly remove the political hidden danger.”
Photo: Chen Xinxin
20 years of backtracking, there is always a score to settle
One thing of particular concern in the CCP’s overhaul of the political and legal forces is that several regions on the mainland have followed the example of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region’s anti-corruption campaign of “20 years of backtracking,” in which all case files and parole materials from the past 20 years are re-examined for accountability. During the period, some officials who have retired for years were also recalled for questioning in many places.
In fact, the 20-year backtracking process dates directly back to the period of Jiang Zemin’s rule, when Jia Chunwang and Zhou Yongkang were ministers of public security, and when Luo Gan was secretary of the CCP’s Political and Legal Committee. The campaign has now spread throughout the mainland’s political and legal systems.
According to public information, the CCP has had a total of five Ministers of Public Security since 2001, namely
Chief Superintendent Jia Chunwang (March 18, 1998-December 28, 2002, also First Political Commissar of the Armed Police Force)
Chief Superintendent Zhou Yongkang (December 28, 2002 – October 28, 2007, Member of the Central Political Bureau, Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, State Councillor, and First Political Commissar of the Armed Police Force)
Chief Superintendent Meng Jianzhu (October 28, 2007 – December 28, 2012, State Councillor and First Political Commissar of the Armed Police Force)
Chief Superintendent Guo Shengkun (December 28, 2012 – November 4, 2017, State Councillor and First Political Commissar of the Armed Police Force)
Chief Superintendent Zhao Kezhi (November 4, 2017 – present, State Councillor and First Political Commissar of the Armed Police Force)
The Communist Party of China’s Political and Legal Committee Secretaries from 2001 to the present are
Luo Gan (March 1998-October 2007, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, State Councillor, Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and)
Zhou Yongkang (October 2007-November 2012, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, Director of the Central Committee for Comprehensive Governance and the Director)
Meng Jianzhu (November 2012-November 2017, Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, Director of the Central Commission for Comprehensive Governance and Director)
Guo Shengkun (November 2017-present, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee, Secretary of the Central Secretariat and)
Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, he took down Zhou Yongkang, the former secretary of the CCP’s Political and Legal Committee, in 2014, after which a steady stream of senior political and legal officials have fallen. Since the 19th National Congress in 2017, at least eight senior officials in the political and legal system and more than 150 officials at the department and bureau levels have fallen. In 2020 alone, senior officials such as Sun Lijun, vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, Gong Daogan, director of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, Deng Zuolin, director of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau, and Wang Like, secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee for Political and Legal Affairs, have been investigated.
Since 2020, China has been piloting 35 political and legal institutions in Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Henan, Sichuan, and Shaanxi, including courts, procuratorates, public security bureaus, judicial bureaus, state security bureaus, and prisons. The CCP official media reported that by the end of November 2020, 2,247 out of 16,000 police officers were dealt with, including 2 officers at the departmental level and 227 at the divisional level; 448 were filed and examined, and 39 were transferred to justice. That is, less than one in eight people were dealt with. Hong Kong media “Ming Pao” said, less than 8 people in 1 to be punished, which shows the seriousness of the problem.
In addition to the accountability of problematic officials, personnel adjustments in the CCP’s political and legal system are also underway. Public reports show that Liao Jinrong, director of the International Cooperation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, was transferred to the State Post Bureau. Liao Jinrong, 55, was deputy director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau during the years when Zhou Yongkang was in charge of the Ministry of Public Security, and was in the International Cooperation Bureau for many years.
In addition, Chen Xiaojun, head of the CCP’s Comprehensive Governance Supervision Bureau, was transferred to the State Earthquake Administration as deputy director. The public opinion is generally that Liao Jinrong and Chen Xiaojun are both senior bureau-level officials in the political and legal system, although they are among the ranks of the “central officials” by taking up new positions in the central bureau-level agencies, but only in good name, but the essence of the key departments to the cold government offices, no doubt it is an explicit promotion.
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