Changing Faces of Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping for Sale on Chinese Streets
The official website of the Institute of Party History and Documentation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has recently been updated with information on “leading members,” indicating that Huang Yibing, a researcher at the institute, has been promoted to the position of vice president. In recent years, Huang Yibing has reportedly been engaged in editing the writings of Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and in researching and publicizing Xi’s thoughts. As Xi Jinping enters his second term, he continues to build a cult of personalities, with Xi’s political slogans paving the entire front page, his speeches filling the evening news, and his books occupying the most prominent corners of bookstores; the app Learning Power, which features Xi’s speeches and Xi’s thoughts, has become a tool of allegiance for journalists and civil servants. Under these circumstances, it is not surprising that Huang Yibing, who has been packaging Xi’s propaganda, has risen through the ranks.
According to information, Huang Yibing, 53, is a Han Chinese native of Anhui province and holds a doctorate in law, according to Surf News. He is also a delegate to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Prior to assuming the position of vice president, Huang was a researcher and director of the First Research Department of the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee.
In recent years, he has been mainly engaged in editing Xi Jinping’s works and researching and propagating “Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era,” such as “Study Outline of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era “etc.
He also participated in the preparation of the “Brief History of the Communist Party of China”, which was re-published to coincide with the centennial of the founding of the Party.
According to reports, his major theoretical articles include “Theoretical Features of Xi Jinping’s Socialist Thought with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era,” and his major Party history articles include “Theoretical Work Retreat and the Drafting of the Resolution on Several Historical Issues of the Party Since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China. ‘ etc.
Xi Jinping’s Efforts to Eliminate Dissidents, Create a Cult of the Individual, and Put the Party on Thin Ice
Xi Jinping has been cracking down on dissidents and promoting a cult of the individual since the 19th Communist Party Congress, and his move to abolish the term of office of the president has sparked discontent among many in the party. The Red Generation, once a major force behind Xi’s rise to power, has also drifted away from him. Ren Zhiqiang, a second-generation Red, criticized Xi Jinping as a clown who wanted to become an emperor by taking off his clothes and was heavily sentenced to 18 years, which chilled the hearts of many second-generation Reds; Cai Xia, a retired professor from the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, even expressed his disgust with Xi Jinping, saying that the CPC has become a political zombie and there is no way out of the CPC system, and that if he is not replaced, “we will watch the system fall to the ground freely “The son of Chinese Communist general Luo Ruiqing, Luo Yu, sent more than 10 open letters to Xi Jinping before his death, but no response, Luo Yu’s advice to Xi Jinping in the letter is believed to represent the true thoughts of some red generation.
Although Wang Qishan, a veteran who once “fought alongside” Xi, has become vice president of the Communist Party after the 19th National Congress, he has not played any role in recent years, and has only been able to serve as an announcer for Xi at the Boao Forum with fear and trepidation. Even Wang Qishan, who had cleared the way for Xi, did not feel safe.
This year marks the centennial of the CCP’s founding, and officials have gone to great lengths to promote Xi Jinping. In the course of discussing the CCP’s history, special emphasis has been placed on Xi’s time in power.
For example, a new edition of “A Brief History of the Communist Party of China” has been released as a designated study material for Party history, highlighting the history of the Party since Xi Jinping’s reign, which accounts for about a quarter of the book.
In addition, officials have deliberately downplayed the mistakes of the late Communist Party leader Mao Zedong in launching the Cultural Revolution. The new edition of “A Brief History of the Communist Party of China” no longer contains a separate chapter on the Cultural Revolution.
The CCP’s Central Propaganda Department recently held a study event on Party history for top cadres, and again downplayed criticism of the Cultural Revolution, saying only that from 1949 to the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, “the period was full of difficulties and twists, and even encountered major setbacks,” but still “made great achievements in socialist revolution and construction. “.
Netizen “Chen Tang Guan” posted: “Look! In this new brief history of the devil in the Communist Party, Xi takes up a quarter of the book, becoming a monarch, and singing Mao’s praises. The devil Mao launched the heinous crime of the Cultural Revolution is said to be just because the eyesight is not clear, there is something wrong. This Xi is really hopeless!”
Qualitative Cultural Revolution Xi Jinping is farther from the truth than Deng Xiaoping
Publicly available information shows that the Cultural Revolution began on May 16, 1966, when Mao Zedong, then chairman of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, and the Central Cultural Revolutionary Group mobilized thousands of “Red Guards” from the top down to launch a campaign on all fronts in mainland China. Officials encouraged criticism, house raids, and denunciations, which led to a decline in traditional Chinese culture and morality, a severe impact on the overall economy, and the destruction of tens of millions of victims, as well as a large number of cultural relics during the “destruction of the Four Olds. This movement lasted for ten years and is therefore called the “Ten Years of Unrest” or “Ten Years of Catastrophe”.
In fact, the Cultural Revolution was a catastrophe triggered by the internal struggle between the two sides in Zhongnanhai, and the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1981 characterized the Cultural Revolution as “a civil unrest that was wrongly initiated by the leaders and exploited by counter-revolutionary groups, bringing serious disasters to the Party, the country and the people of all ethnic groups. However, the CCP still does not dare to directly admit that this was a campaign initiated by Mao Zedong to eradicate dissident forces within the Party.
According to the CCP, the campaign was used by counter-revolutionary groups. But observers believe that the so-called counter-revolutionary group refers to Mao’s deputy Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, including Mao’s wife Jiang Qing, who used them to eliminate dissidents rather than Mao.
Deng Xiaoping characterized Mao’s sins as “more merit than demerit,” downplaying the insane campaign that brought about the collapse of Chinese society and the death of millions of innocent people, while Xi Jinping took it a step further when he came to power, saying in 2013 that the last 30 years should not be used to negate the first 30 years, nor should the first 30 years be used to negate the second 30 years, confusing the two periods before and after the reform. The two eras are confused. Until now, it is still forbidden to talk about the Cultural Revolution. The authorities have now launched a new party history, and the new descriptions of the Cultural Revolution and Mao have also sparked controversy.
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