A rare criticism of the National Energy Administration by the Communist Party of China’s ecological environmental protection inspectors. Analysis indicates that Xi Jinping may have three main intentions.
The Sixth Ecological Environmental Protection Inspectorate of the Communist Party of China (CPC) recently made a rare criticism of the National Energy Administration. According to senior media sources, Xi’s move has the effect of killing three birds with one stone, such as showing goodwill to Biden, warning Li Keqiang and continuing to fight against Jiang’s faction, but the move may also bring negative effects.
Environmental Inspectors Rarely Criticize National Energy Administration
The Sixth Ecological Environmental Protection Inspectorate of the CPC Central Committee (hereinafter referred to as the inspector group) gave feedback to the National Energy Administration (hereinafter referred to as the Energy Bureau) on January 29 on the ecological environment inspection. Li Jiaxiang, head of the inspection team, briefed the inspector’s report, and Zhang Jianhua, secretary of the party group and director of the Energy Bureau, presided over the meeting.
The inspection team worded unusually sharp criticism of the Energy Bureau’s many problems. For example, the work of the Energy Bureau “falls short” of the requirements of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China, and the deterioration of the political ecology of the Energy Bureau has also had a serious impact on the implementation of the requirements related to ecological protection.
The inspection team also criticized the Energy Bureau for “not building what should be built, but building what should not be built”; for arranging more major energy projects and major project development and construction tasks, but less supporting ecological and environmental protection initiatives; and for not requiring enough ecological and environmental protection.
The inspection team also criticized the Energy Bureau’s internal opinions are varied. Some believe that the most important task in the field of energy is to ensure supply, ecological and environmental requirements are too high will increase the production costs of enterprises; some believe that the implementation of the management of the industry must manage environmental protection does not yet have the conditions; others believe that the energy sector layout is unreasonable, over-exploitation of the problem, mainly caused by other departments and local, the Energy Bureau is not able to cope with, etc.
Analysis: Xi Jinping or three major intentions
Veteran media personality and current affairs commentator Li Linyi said, the Chinese Communist Party‘s environmental protection inspectors publicly accused the National Energy Administration, which is very rare.
The first one is to show the U.S. President Joe Biden that he is a good candidate for the position. The first is a gesture of goodwill to U.S. President Joe Biden; the second is a blow to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang; and the third is a continued blow to the Jiang faction, which has always held the Energy Bureau.
Xi Jinping’s goodwill gesture to Biden
During his presidency, former U.S. President Donald Trump imposed unprecedented multifaceted sanctions on the Chinese Communist regime. These included sanctioning a large number of state-owned and high-tech companies and joining allies in besieging huawei; sanctioning at least 17 senior officials at the vice state level, such as Chen Quanguo, a member of the Politburo and secretary of the Xinjiang Party Committee, You Quan, secretary of the Central Committee Secretariat and head of the Central United Front Work Department, Xia Baolong, vice chairman of the CPPCC and director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, and 14 vice chairmen of the National People’s Congress; tightening visa restrictions on Chinese Communist Party officials; and closing the Chinese Communist Party consulate in Houston.
Before the Trump Administration left office, the U.S. further strengthened sanctions against the CCP, blacklisting 11 Chinese companies, including CNOOC, Xiaomi Group, China National Aviation Group, and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, on January 14; disclosing for the first Time classified documents on January 12 that have included Taiwan in the first island chain and assisted Taiwan from the CCP threat; meanwhile, the U.S. accelerated the provision of advanced weapons to Taiwan for use against the CCP’s military threats, etc.
Under the siege of the Western society led by the U.S., as well as the deteriorating Chinese economy and the vicious fighting at the top of the CCP, the CCP regime is facing a serious ruling crisis.
Li Linyi said that the first purpose of the Chinese Communist authorities to strengthen environmental protection now is to show goodwill to Biden, hoping to start cooperation with the United States on climate change, in an attempt to use this as an excuse to open a breakthrough for renewed U.S.-China cooperation.
In early February, Chinese authorities appointed Xie Zhenhua, a former chief representative in the Paris Agreement negotiations, as their special envoy on climate issues, having worked with former U.S. Secretary of State and current U.S. climate envoy John Kerry on climate issues.
Li Linyi said Xi Jinping’s appointment of Xie Zhenhua as climate envoy is clearly a move specifically based on the U.S. situation, and is intended to dovetail with U.S. climate envoy Kerry.
But Li Linyi pointed out that China is the top carbon emitter, and Xi pledged at the UN General Assembly last September that China would achieve carbon neutrality (i.e., net zero carbon dioxide emissions) by 2060, but the Chinese Communist Party’s promises have never been credible, and the pledge has raised questions from outside.
Xi Jinping Warns Li Keqiang
Although the CCP authorities claim that the central ecological environmental protection inspectors are approved by the CCP Central Committee and the State Council, Li Lin pointed out that no matter what, the board hit Li Keqiang’s subordinate National Energy Administration, and Li Keqiang always looks bad in terms of face. At the same time, this move by the Xi Jinping administration also carries the flavor of deterrence.
After the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping accelerated the pace of power, and Li Keqiang was constantly marginalized. At the same time, the outside world also spread the sound of Xi-Li discord, of which the most representative incidents are at least four examples.
First, after the outbreak of the CCP virus (Wuhan pneumonia), the CCP authorities initially concealed the Epidemic. But as the epidemic spread throughout the country and even across the board, Xi Jinping appointed Li Keqiang as head of the Communist Party’s epidemic prevention and control team, but as the epidemic slowly subsided, Xi kept claiming that he was “personally in charge and deployed”.
On May 28, 2020, the day the two sessions of the National People’s Congress ended, Li Keqiang publicly disclosed that 600 million people in China earn only RMB 1,000 per month, which contradicts Xi’s proposal that China should build a moderately prosperous society by 2020.
Third, at the above press conference, Li Keqiang also expressed his support for the “stall economy”, which once triggered a wave of “stalls” on the mainland. But then, the “stall economy” was boycotted by the Communist Party’s official media, as well as by Beijing and other cities led by Cai Qi, who is Xi Jinping’s confidant, and the “stall economy” ended.
Fourth, on July 31, 2020, Liu He, Vice Premier of the Communist Party of China and Xi Jinping’s confidant, also publicly “humiliated” Li Keqiang. On that day, Liu He hosted the opening ceremony of the Beidou-3 global satellite navigation system, and when Xi Jinping was introduced, Liu gave enough time for the participants to applaud. But when Liu He introduced Li Keqiang, there was no time for applause at all, which made Li Keqiang, who stood up to greet the delegates, very embarrassed.
Xi Jinping continues to crack down on Jiang’s faction
According to Li Linyi, the third major purpose of the CCP’s environmental protection inspectors’ public accusations against the NEA is to once again hammer the Energy Bureau and continue to crack down on Jiang’s faction.
The National Energy Administration has previously been dominated by the Jiang faction. The first two fallen directors of the Energy Bureau, Liu Tienan and Nur Bailey, were both alleged to be members of the Jiang faction.
Liu Tienan was alleged to be the former party leader Jiang Zemin’s horse, Jiang Zemin’s “financial housekeeper” (energy housekeeper), and has long been funneling benefits from the energy system to the Jiang faction, grabbing huge amounts of black money.
Liu Tienan was investigated in May 2013, the Development and Reform Commission on August 12, 2013, internal notification, Liu Tienan bribes amounted to more than 150 million yuan, but Liu Tienan in December 2014 to accept bribes of more than 355.88 million yuan was sentenced to Life imprisonment.
Nur Bailey, an ethnic Uighur from Xinjiang, was promoted and reappointed by Wang Lequan, a former “King of Xinjiang” and a confidant of Zhou Yongkang, the former secretary of the Communist Party of China’s Political and Legal Committee, and was promoted step by step to secretary of the regional political and legal committee, deputy secretary of the party committee and chairman of the regional government.
Wang Lequan was transferred to the position of deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Committee in April 2010 due to the “July 5” incident, and became Zhou Yongkang’s assistant before Zhou recommended Zhang Chunxian to replace Wang.
After working with Zhang Chunxian for many years, Nur Bailey was transferred to the corruption-hit National Energy Administration in late 2014 as director of the Energy Bureau and deputy director of the Development and Reform Commission. He was investigated in September 2018 and sentenced to life imprisonment in December 2019 for corruption of more than $79.1 million.
In addition to Liu Tienan and Nur Bailey, several other senior officials of the Energy Bureau have fallen. Including three deputy directors Xu Yongsheng, Wang Xiaolin, Liu Baohua, and a number of directors, such as Hao Weiping, director of the Department of Nuclear Power, Wang Jun, director of the Department of New and Renewable Energy, Wei Pengyuan, deputy director of the Department of Coal, and Liang Bo, deputy director of the Department of Electricity, have all fallen.
Among them, Liu Baohua, deputy director of the Energy Bureau was last October fell. In November last year, according to the “coal province” of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a total of 534 officials in Inner Mongolia were investigated for corruption involving the “coal sector”.
The mainland may reproduce the phenomenon of large-scale power outages
Li Linyi said Xi Jinping’s continued purge and crackdown on the Energy Bureau could have negative effects while cracking down on bureaucrats.
“Some time ago, because of the shortage of electricity, the Development and Reform Commission was still riveted, all over the world desperately trying to generate electricity to provide power to the people. After a few days, Xi began to change his face, which may also cause the de facto power to go wrong again.” Li Linyi said.
At the end of last year, there were widespread power outages in several mainland provinces and cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the most developed cities on the mainland.
It is widely believed that this massive power outage on the mainland is mainly due to the shortage of coal and electricity caused by the Chinese Communist authorities retaliating against Australia by banning the import of Australian coal.
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