Recent personnel changes in the Beijing Municipal Committee. Following the appointment of Zhang Yankun, secretary of the Beijing Municipal Political and Legal Committee, as deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, Sun Meijun, a member of the party group and deputy director of the Communist Party’s State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration, was transferred to the Beijing Municipal Committee. Sun Meijun was the deputy of Bi Jingquan, a high-ranking official who resigned two years ago over the tainted vaccine case.
The Beijing Daily client reported on Dec. 29 that the CPC Central Committee recently approved Sun Meijun’s appointment as a member and standing committee member of the Beijing Municipal Committee. There have also been recent changes to the Beijing Municipal Committee, with Zhang Yankun, secretary of the city’s political and legal committee, appointed as deputy secretary of the municipal party committee late last month, replacing former deputy municipal party secretary Jing Junhai.
Born in 1965 in Kaijiang, Sichuan, Sun Meijun has a postgraduate degree, a doctorate in management and a senior statistician. She has served as Deputy Director and Director of the General Agricultural Survey Team of the National Bureau of Statistics, Director, Deputy Director and Inspector of the rural Economic Research Department of the Research Office of the State Council, Director of the Policy and Regulation Department of the Food Safety Commission Office of the State Council, Director of the Comprehensive Department of the State Food and Drug Administration, and Deputy Director of the State Food and Drug Administration.
In July 2017, Sun Meijun was appointed Deputy Director General of the State Food and Drug Administration. According to the official website of the State Food and Drug Administration at the time, Sun Meijun was responsible for assisting Bi Jingquan in managing the First, Second, and Third Departments of Food Safety Supervision, the Department of Special Food Registration and Management, the National Review Committee for the Protection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Varieties (health Food Review Center), and the National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment.
As the safety of China’s home-made CCP virus vaccines is being questioned, Bi Jingquan, the former party secretary of China’s General Administration of Market Supervision and Administration who resigned over the Changchun Changsheng vaccine case, recently added a new identity and made a public appearance after moving on to become a deputy chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
According to official media reports in Hebei, Bi Jingquan visited Lingshou County in Hebei Province on Dec. 21 in his capacity as deputy director of China’s National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference’s Economic Committee and executive vice chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges. According to the news, Bi Jingquan has been appointed as the executive vice chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges.
According to public information, Bi Jingquan, born in September 1955, a native of Qing’an County, Heilongjiang Province, has worked in China’s National Planning Commission and China’s National Development and Reform Commission for many years since then. in March 2008, Bi Jingquan, then deputy director of China’s National Development and Reform Commission, assumed his new position as deputy secretary general of China’s State Council, and in January 2015, he became director and party secretary of China’s State Food and Drug Administration. In August 2020, two years after taking the blame for his resignation, the 65-year-old Bi Jingquan was added as a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and became the deputy director of the Economic Committee of the CPPCC.
In August 2018, the CCP’s Politburo dealt with the Changchun Changsheng vaccine case, punishing 42 officials, of whom Bi Jingquan was the only official at the full ministerial level and a member of the 19th Central Committee.
An article at the time disclosed that an unnamed administrative law expert said that for Bi Jingquan, “taking the blame and resigning” is not strictly an administrative punishment, but only the withdrawal of his former position and the retention of his administrative rank. Does this mean that such “resignation” is only for show.
Bi Jingquan is said to have an unusual background. He was Wang Qishan’s first secretary, and in April 2008 he served as deputy secretary-general of the State Council, assisting then-Vice Premier Wang Qishan, and in March 2013 he assisted Vice Premier Wang Yang after Li Keqiang took office as premier and formed his cabinet.
The Voice of America quoted Chinese scholar Tian Qizhuang as saying that according to the Chinese Communist Party’s logic, these officials “actually share the worries, take the blame and bear the burden for the Party. Under such circumstances, the Party feels that he has merit and will reapply him when the opportunity arises. They are considered comrades whom the Party can trust.” According to Tian Qizhuang, the reason for the reinstatement of removed officials lies mainly in the fact that the people do not really have the right to vote.
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