The Ministry of Emergency Management (MEMA) is the State Council’s department in charge of production safety, disaster management, and emergency relief, but as minister, Wang Yupu has been ill for the past two years.
Wang Yupu, who has been the Communist Party’s minister of emergency management since March 2018, has been out of commission for a long time, rarely seen, and was rumored to be ill, until yesterday (9), when he was confirmed dead. The death of Wang Yupu, a ministerial-level member of the Chinese Communist Party, has raised concerns about the medical privileges enjoyed by powerful Communist Party officials.
According to the official website of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Wang Yupu, the current Minister of Emergency Management of the Chinese Communist Party, died on August 8 at the age of 64. Wang Yupu died of an illness, according to a report in the land-based media Breaking News. He was absent from the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee in October, and some Hong Kong media said he was in poor health.
He was born in 1956, Wang Yupu is a native of Liaoning, and served in the Daqing oilfield for many years, then served as vice governor of Heilongjiang province, chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and then returned to the petroleum system as chairman and party secretary of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, belonging to the two-term “petroleum gang” leader Zeng Qinghong and Zhou Yongkang.
Wang Yupu was appointed Party Secretary and Director of the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in September 2017, and Minister of the newly-formed Ministry of Emergency Management in March 2018.
Following the conclusion of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee in Beijing on October 29, it was discovered that six Central Committee members and two alternates were absent from the Fifth Plenary Session. Wang Yupu was said to be one of the six absent, citing “poor health” as the reason.
In fact, since the establishment of the CCP’s Ministry of Emergency Management (MEMA) in March 2018, Wang Yupu, as minister and deputy party secretary, has rarely been seen.
Aside from an appearance at a ceremony to mark the opening of the Ministry of Emergency Management on April 16, 2018, and attendance at several departmental meetings later that year without speaking, Wang Yupu has made few other public appearances. Wang Yupu was also absent from the “ministerial channel” during the two sessions of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in March 2019, and from the January 6-7, 2020, conference on China’s emergency management efforts.
During this period, negative rumors abounded, including allegations that Wang Yupu may be under investigation for corruption and may have been involved in a less serious matter that was not referred to the judiciary, or that he was recovering from pancreatic cancer. It was also said that Wang Yupu was recovering from pancreatic cancer and was unable to work due to the disease.
Commentator Zheng Zhongyuan noted earlier that it was not known whether Wang Yupu was seriously ill or indeed on remand, but it turns out that he was “disappeared”. Can an official in such a state assume the responsibility of safety supervision? It is a sin for the Chinese authorities to take money from the people to support such incompetent officials.
The Chinese elite dominate 80% of China’s medical resources.
In China, civilians have the world’s most difficult and unaffordable access to medical care, while the Chinese elite have the world’s most medical privileges. The Chinese elite have seized 80% of China’s medical resources.
In 2006, China’s total health spending was about 700 billion yuan, or 5.6% of GDP. Of this, government investment accounted for 17% of the total health costs, or about 119 billion yuan, of which 80% – or 95.2 billion yuan – was spent on 8.5 million party and government officials, while the other 1.3 billion people got only 20% – a paltry 23.8 billion!
According to the Ministry of Supervision and the Ministry of Personnel of the Communist Party of China, 2 million cadres at all levels of the Party and government departments have taken long-term sick leave, and 400,000 of them have occupied cadres’ wards, cadres’ hostels, and resorts, spending about 50 billion yuan a year.
The vice president of a top-three hospital in Shanxi once cited the example of a leader who had a common cold and required several medications and hospital infusions. A few years ago, a single hospital stay for a retired provincial cadre cost 3 million yuan.
Once on life support, the cost per day is more than 200,000 RMB, for as many days as it takes.
The medical treatment is also different for provincial and vice-provincial ministers, with the vice-provincial minister’s medical card having a blue cover and the provincial minister’s having a green cover. If you go to see a doctor with your medical card, you don’t have to wait in line to register, and you can also be hospitalized in a private room. The reimbursement procedures are also different, with the provincial minister’s expenses being settled directly between the health department and the hospital, while the vice-provincial minister’s expenses are reimbursed to the original unit.
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