Swapping mistresses has actually become a fad among Communist Party officials

Du Shicheng, former deputy secretary of Shandong Province and secretary of Qingdao Municipal Committee, with his mistress Li Wei and Chen Tonghai.

A mysterious woman, Li Wei, the “public mistress”, has attracted attention after the case of Sinopec’s former general manager Chen Tonghai was solved for taking 195.73 million yuan in bribes. The American media said that the officialdom under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party, the subordinate to the superior contribution of mistress is the officialdom unspoken rule, the same level between the exchange of mistresses, share the same mistress has become a fashion.

Li Wei, a public lover, has been exposed to a number of senior officials at the provincial and ministerial levels. What kind of woman is Li Wei, what kind of capital and energy she has to swim between the powerful and the rich?

Li Wei is 1.65 meters tall, a French-Vietnamese woman born in Vietnam, who entered China’s Yunnan Province as a refugee with her Parents when she was young. With her good looks and social skills, Li Wei has successfully seduced numerous high-ranking Communist Party officials from Yunnan to Guangzhou and from Shenzhen to Beijing. Li Wei became a veritable “public lover” of senior officials.

Li Wei actually has the habit of keeping a diary. In her diary, she recorded more than a dozen high-ranking officials at the provincial and ministerial levels. These people have not been exposed, some have retired, some have been transferred, and many are still in high positions. There are four people at the provincial ministerial level and five people at the deputy provincial ministerial level who have been documented. And Li Wei’s diary will always be the Damocles sword hanging over their heads.

Four of the senior officials who would later be sentenced to a suspended death sentence were: Li Jiating, then governor of Yunnan Province; Chen Tonghai, then chairman of Sinopec; Wang Yi, then vice president of the China Development Bank (vice minister); and Liu Zhihua, then vice mayor of Beijing. Three others who were successively sentenced to Life imprisonment were Du Shicheng, then deputy secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee; Huang Songyou, then vice president of the Supreme Court and second-ranking justice; and Zheng Shaodong, then assistant minister of the Ministry of Public Security (vice ministerial level).

Li Wei (Photo credit: Internet)

Radio Free Asia commentator Gao Xin wrote on Feb. 12 that in contemporary China under the Chinese Communist Party, if it has long been an unspoken rule in official circles for subordinates to contribute mistresses to their superiors, it has become a fashionable trend for peers to introduce, exchange, or even share the same mistress with each other.

The article says that when the author was following the case of Chen Tonghai, he heard from a person who worked in the Beijing Municipal Party Committee that Liu Zhihua’s crime was exposed because his mistress surnamed Wang was in trouble first. The author also said that after Li Wei hooked up with Liu Zhihua, Liu Zhihua had not had Time to cash in on the project he gave her Li Wei, but he was first confessed by his mistress Wang. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.

The Beijing-based source also revealed that although Liu Zhihua was confirmed that not a single penny of the crime amount was flowing to Li Wei, but Li Wei’s confession should also be one of the evidence that led to Liu Zhihua being resentenced to death. It proves that Liu Zhihua did not confess all the facts of his crimes, including the attempted crimes, to the “organization” and the judicial authorities, both during the process of being double-regulated by the CCDI and after being “transferred to justice”.

And about half of Du Shicheng’s major crimes are directly and indirectly related to Li Wei. Since they were once blessed together, they should naturally share the difficulties. Later, Du Shicheng was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the official media reports at the time highlighted that he was “treated leniently” because of his “meritorious work in exposing Chen Tonghai”.

What is so shocking is that this lover, who was so favored by Chen Tonghai, was “generously” given to Du Shicheng, former deputy secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee.

The article quotes a Literary City netizen as saying, “Although everyone is familiar with Tang Can’s “mistress story,” the most legendary public mistress in the CCP officialdom is another name, Li Wei. It is believed that she is the big sister of public mistress.