Chinese Communist Party Sends Inspection Teams to Localities to Demand Absolute Party Leadership

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Political and Legal Affairs Commission (CPLAC) recently announced that the CPC has sent several central inspection teams to six provinces to monitor the implementation of the “Regulations on the Work of the Communist Party of China on Political and Legal Affairs” and to strengthen the CPC’s absolute leadership of the political and legal system.

The groups were led by ministerial-level cadres and were sent to Shanxi, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Hunan, Guizhou, and Gansu to carry out inspections, the announcement said.

Chen Xin, secretary-general of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, presided over the mobilization meeting for the inspection teams late last month. The meeting pointed out that the inspection team should pay attention to check whether the local departments have made specific institutional arrangements to achieve the “two safeguards” to ensure that the political and legal work is always under the absolute leadership of the Party Central Committee with Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, as the core.

In July of this year, Chen Xin said that the central government would carry out a “Yan’an Rectification” of the country’s political and legal systems, and dozens of political and legal officials have been investigated since then. It is believed that the Chinese Communist Party is currently facing an internal and external dilemma. In order to protect his power and the Communist regime, Xi Jinping must carry out a political purge.

Chen Xin also previously pointed out that in the pilot project to clean up the political and legal system, the relevant departments should adhere to the “no-holds-barred, zero-tolerance” principle and implement the requirement of “leniency in self-investigation and strictness in being investigated.