As Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang enter their second terms in office, it has become increasingly clear that their economic lines are diverging. Recently, some foreign media learned that internal documents of the Communist Party of China show that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection intervenes in the affairs of the State Council and makes direct requests to local governments to “resume work”. The analysis suggests that Xi Jinping has been weakening Li Keqiang’s power, and that the Xi-Li dispute is actually another manifestation of Xi Jinping’s accelerated centralization of power.
On February 21, the Shijiazhuang City Discipline Inspection Commission on May 25, 2020, issued a letter on conveying the relevant views of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection research team, the document buttressed the requirements of the party committees at all levels: “Party committees at all levels to pay more attention to small and micro enterprises while grasping the scale of enterprises”, “to take stronger greater, more targeted measures to help”.
The document also requires the departments at all levels: “departments at all levels should increase the publicity of the policies related to the resumption of work and production”, “to promote the policies to really take effect”; “all places in the resumption of work and production at the same Time, especially to The document is a good example of how to make a good job of production safety and product quality.
Observers believe that the requirements involved in this document, which is not under the jurisdiction of the Commission, should be the responsibility of the State Council and local governments. This is Xi Jinping’s arrangement for the CCDI to intervene in government affairs.
The only thing he’s worried about now is the possibility of economic problems, and he needs to have a plan for future economic problems. “
Li Linyi analysis, the party-controlled economy means that Xi Jinping can let the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to manage the economy. “The main executive of the economy is still Li Keqiang, but the Commission can be called to supervise, for example, the anti-Epidemic, he issued a notice inside said very clearly, the local to improve safety production, but also quality should be grasped, he is speaking this, has become a double leadership.”
The expansion of the CDC’s power to meddle in the affairs of the State Council has been previously indicated. In the past few years, at least five deputy secretaries of the CCDI have served as “heads” of State Council departments.
In addition, Xi Jinping has on several occasions reduced Li Keqiang’s power. According to the practice of the two sessions of the Communist Party of China, the first day of the Premier’s participation in the CPPCC sub-group, must be the economic sector. Last year, however, Xi broke with his usual practice and spoke to the economic sector; on Feb. 9 this year, Beijing hosted the “17+1” video summit of the leaders of the Communist Party of China-Central and Eastern European countries, and on that day Xi Jinping replaced Li Keqiang, who had been attending the summit on behalf of the Communist Party.
Li Keqiang also lost face when the Sixth Ecological Environmental Protection Inspectorate of the CPC Central Committee made a rare and sharp criticism of the Energy Bureau. In this regard, Li Linyi commented that the board hit Li Keqiang’s subordinate National Energy Administration, Li had lost face, indicating a clear rift between Xi and Li.
In May last year, Li Keqiang pushed for a “stall economy” at the Communist Party’s two sessions, and the “stall and night market” economy became a hot topic of discussion among citizens and the media, with the trend of “all people practicing stalls. The “ground stall and night market” economy became a hot topic among the people and the media, with the trend of “all people practicing stall”. But one after another, Beijing and the official media sang the opposite tune, saying that “ground stalls can not be placed indiscriminately”. It is rumored that the Ministry of Propaganda also issued a letter asking the media to delete past reports.
CCTV commented that for mega-cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, refined management is the right way to go, and that major first-tier cities are not “blindly following the trend”, and if the stall economy takes off, the cities’ years of accumulated refined management will be “lost. “.
On June 1 last year, when Li Keqiang visited Shandong province, he again promoted the stall economy, saying it was “an important source of employment” and “part of the vitality of the mainland, just like big business”. The new policy represented by Li Keqiang was a hit on the mainland’s social networks, with the message being read more than 1.6 billion times on the Internet within 10 days.
But it was quickly blasted by the party media. The Legal Daily wrote on June 5 that the new floor economy in 2020 is more than a simple regression. The People’s Daily said on June 6 that the ground-floor economy was “letting the body temperature rise without a fever”. This is exactly what Xi Jinping meant when he visited Hangzhou on March 31.
Xi and Li have more than one contradictory economic line. At the conclusion of the two sessions last year, Li said that 600 million people on the mainland still earn only 1,000 yuan a month, which is clearly at odds with Xi’s emphasis on completing the fight against poverty; it also overshadows Xi’s frequent boasts of “unprecedented achievements” in the mainland’s fight against poverty.
On July 6 of the same year, Li Keqiang saw many unused factories during his visit to Tongren, Guizhou, and called for more migrant workers. Some media interpreted Li Keqiang as telling the truth again, confirming that China’s economic recovery under the epidemic was not satisfactory, which in turn contradicted Xi Jinping’s goal of achieving a moderately prosperous society.
At a State Council executive meeting on July 15, Li emphasized that the mainland is still a developing country and that it should do its best in whatever it does. This is believed to be Li’s intention, as Xi Jinping has been spreading money around the world on almost every trip he has made since taking power, despite the fact that China still has a huge number of poor people.
On August 16, the party media published a speech by Xi Jinping, stressing that “the main status of public ownership cannot be shaken”. While Li Keqiang presided over a State Council meeting on the 17th, he said that he would ensure policy support for small and micro enterprises.
Xi and Li once again said their own words, again sparking public attention. The pro-Beijing Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao published an opinion piece on Aug. 19 titled “Who in the Party is against Xi? The article said, “With his (Li Keqiang’s) current influence, if he is really determined to raise his arms and try to oppose Xi’s ascendancy, he is afraid that he will become either Lin Biao’s second or Zhao Ziyang’s second in the Party. The second of Lin Biao or Zhao Ziyang.”
He told China Watch that Li Keqiang could not possibly fight with Xi, but Xi does need someone to take the blame for him, and that person is Li Keqiang.
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