On January 1, 2021, Shen Haixiong, the “head” of the Communist Party’s Central Radio and Television Station, delivered a New Year’s message that echoed Xi Jinping‘s New Year’s message by talking about the Communist Party’s “achievements” in fighting the epidemic and the “miracle” of poverty eradication. Xi Jinping’s New Year’s message. According to reports, Shen Haixiong has had two encounters with Xi Jinping. He has also posted an article praising Xi Jinping’s father, Xi Zhongxun.
According to mainland media, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), delivered a New Year’s greeting via CCTV and the Internet on Dec. 31, the last day of 2020, and also spoke at a CPPCC New Year’s tea party the same morning. Xi talked about “eradicating poverty” and touted the “epic of the fight against epidemics” written by the Communist Party under his leadership.
On the first day of 2021, Shen Haixiong said in his New Year’s address that the year 2020 has brought many hardships and difficulties to the world, with epidemics hitting human society, but China has “achieved important milestones” in epidemic prevention and control, and that China has “created a miracle in the history of human poverty reduction” by achieving overall poverty eradication this past year.
Shen Haixiong, who is the vice minister of the Central Propaganda Department and director of CCTV, was appointed editor-in-chief of CCTV on May 19, 2020, on the eve of the Communist Party’s two sessions last year.
In 2015, Shen Haixiong became a member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department, and in 2018 he took up a new post in Beijing as Deputy Director General and Deputy Secretary of the Party Group of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of China, Director of CCTV, and Branch Secretary of CCTV. In 2018, he moved to Beijing to become Deputy Director and Deputy Secretary of the Party Group of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio and Television of China, Director and Party Secretary of CCTV, and later Vice Minister of the Central Propaganda Department, Director and Party Secretary of CCTV.
Shen Haixiong and Xi Jinping have crossed paths. In his early years, Shen worked in the local branches of Xinhua News Agency in Zhejiang and Shanghai, after which he was transferred to Xinhua News Agency as vice president and other positions; at that time, Xi Jinping was in charge of the two places.
According to the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign propaganda website Dovetail, Shen Haixiong is considered Xi’s “imperial correspondent. According to the report, Shen Haixiong is active in the CCP’s propaganda system. He has published a book on Xi Zhongxun and the Mass Line, praising Xi Jinping’s father Xi Zhongxun with words such as “positive asset” and “incarnation of conscience.
In 2015, on the 94th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Quyi, an organ of the CPC Central Committee, published a lengthy article by Shen Haixiong on the theme of “The Crosscurrents of the Ocean Show the True Colors of Heroes – Talking about Why the CPC Can Assume the Role of a Strong Leadership Core”. He said that the implementation of a multi-party system in China is not in line with the actual situation in China and is against the fundamental interests of the Chinese people.
In response, Radio Free Asia quoted U.S.-based scholar Xie Xuanjun as saying, “This argument of the Chinese Communist Party is a robber baron argument. It always uses the multi-party system in the past to justify its dictatorial rule. In fact, if the CCP is really not selfish, the best thing it can do to serve the common people is actually to announce its dissolution.”
It is reported that in 2018, the CCP overhauled its propaganda apparatus, and the CCP Central Television, China Central Radio, and China Radio International were integrated into the “Central Radio and Television General Administration,” which became one of the three major propaganda apparatuses of the CCP today, along with the People’s Daily and Xinhua News Agency.
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