Shi Kehui, a former member of the Zhejiang province of Xi Jinping, the Communist Party’s general secretary, and Xia Baolong, the director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, has been appointed as the head of the disciplinary inspection team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office. Shi, who is said to be a member of Xi’s “Family army,” has become the focus of attention as to whether his transfer to the head of the discipline inspection and supervision team at the Hong Kong and Macau Office is aimed at strengthening the anti-corruption system in Hong Kong and Macau.
A former member of Xi Jinping’s staff is appointed to head the disciplinary inspection team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office. (Web screenshot)
On January 26, the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China Guangdong Provincial People’s Congress passed Shi Kehui’s resignation as director of the Guangdong Provincial Supervisory Commission. On the same day, the latest list of “Office Leaders” on the official website of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) showed that Shi Kehui had been transferred to the head of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office (HKMAO) and a member of the party group of the HKMAO, while Pan Shengzhou, who has reached the age of 63, no longer holds the post.
Shi Kehui, 59, a native of Pujiang, Zhejiang province, is a former member of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and a former member of Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office.
Shi Kehui had a long tenure in Zhejiang. During Xi Jinping’s tenure as secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee from 2002 to 2007, Shi was deputy director of the General Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, deputy director of the General Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, and director of the General Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee. At that Time, Xia Baolong was the deputy secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Xi Jinping’s “deputy”.
Xia Baolong was promoted to the governorship of Zhejiang Province in January 2012 and to the provincial party secretary in December of the same year, when Shi Kehui was the deputy director of the General Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and deputy secretary-general of the provincial party committee (at the department level), Shi was said to be Xia’s “big butler”.
In 2014, Shi was transferred to the position of deputy secretary general and director of the General Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), and became the “chief butler” of Wang Qishan, the then secretary of the CCDI, who was Xi Jinping’s “chief general in fighting tigers and corruption”. Before Wang Qishan left the CCDI, Shi Kehui was transferred to the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection in 2017.
During his tenure as secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, Shi met with Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption Commissioner Susanna Pak and Macau’s Independent Commission Against Corruption Commissioner Zhang Yongchun, and said he should further “strengthen anti-corruption cooperation among Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau.
There are whispers in the CCP official circles that Shi Kehui’s relegation to the head of the discipline inspection team at the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office could be a harbinger of the CCP authorities’ intention to purge foreign agencies.
But senior media personality and current affairs commentator Li Linyi said that it is not yet clear that Xi Jinping wants to purge the overseas system, but the “War Wolf” policy is what Xi Jinping wants. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers. “I feel that it is more meaningful to send close friends to firmly control key positions, so that the people below will be more obedient.”
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