Delegates applaud as Xi Jinping arrives at the opening session of the National People’s Congress on March 5.
The two sessions of the Chinese Communist Party are being held in Beijing, and Xi Jinping personally went to the NPC’s Inner Mongolia delegation on March 5, asking for the promotion of universal Chinese language teaching. The Chinese Communist Party media said Xi also mentioned the problem of coal-related corruption in Inner Mongolia and stacked heavy words on the Inner Mongolia delegation, “accounts always have to be settled”, after the words were silent.
The National People’s Congress opened its session on May 5. The Communist Party’s People’s Daily overseas network reported that Xi Jinping personally went to the NPC meeting that day to participate in the deliberations of the Inner Mongolia delegation. He said in his speech that in the past two days, he saw the Inner Mongolia Committee, a report to the central government on the special rectification of irregularities and violations in the field of coal resources.
Xi Jinping said that Inner Mongolia has a very important area in the fight against corruption, is the coal sector. Xi also stressed: when the Communist Party officials, taking national resources to engage in bribery, bribery, to engage in power and money transactions, “this account always has to be settled.”
The report described Xi Jinping’s words as “silent.”
Inner Mongolia dealt with more than 1,400 people
On March 6, the official website of the State Supervisory Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection issued an article saying that the irregularities and violations in the field of coal resources in Inner Mongolia also continue to breed and spread, coal-related corruption has become the biggest “tumor” in the local political ecology. A few party members and cadres, together with unscrupulous businessmen, use coal resources as an “ATM” and engage in power self-enrichment and power for personal gain.
According to the article, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is determined to scrape the bones and purge the “coal-eating coal” age-old malpractice. The autonomous region has formed more than 40 special task forces, coal-related violations of the law “backwards 20 years”. Up to now Inner Mongolia has dealt with the punishment of more than 1400 people.
Xi Jinping emphasizes “cultural identity”
According to the official media release, Xi Jinping attended the deliberations of the Inner Mongolia delegation of the National People’s Congress on the 5th, and also emphasized “cultural identity”, calling for the promotion and popularization of the “national common language and script (Chinese)” work, and the full implementation of the use of the national textbooks.
Xi also called for Education on the so-called “Chinese national community consciousness”, “especially starting with the education of young people”, and claimed to “oppose various erroneous ideological views”.
According to external analysis, Xi’s speech at the Inner Mongolia delegation is actually a strong effort to promote Chinese language education through the knife of anti-corruption. If any official does not listen to him, he will be pulled down in the name of anti-corruption.
In late August and early September of last year, the Communist Party asked ethnic minority schools in Inner Mongolia to teach their core curriculum in Chinese rather than Mongolian, stressing that the introduction of education in the common national language and script is necessary for the so-called “Chinese national community” proposed by Xi Jinping.
The move was seen as an attempt to “exterminate” the Mongolian minority, and tens of thousands of people took to the streets in mass protests and strikes. In the midst of a forceful crackdown, it was previously reported that some 5,000 people were arrested, nine Mongolians committed suicide, and those arrested were sent to so-called rule of law education centers, similar to the conversion camps in Xinjiang.
Officials resist Mongolian ‘extermination’ campaign
Local sources told foreign media that the Communist government forced local officials to go on television to show their support for the government’s universal language policy, but that some officials were forced to resign after refusing, including the secretaries, soum leaders and school principals of three soums in Kashiketeng Banner.
Seven people who were on the Mongolian language team at Inner Mongolia Television were also taken to the police station in handcuffs and shackles for opposing the universal language policy. Sources said that Inner Mongolia is now completely silent and that authorities are listening to or following every journalist who tries to go there.
As local protests continued, authorities continued to arrest people for participating in the protests late last year and planned to recruit 300 Chinese language teachers nationwide to teach in Inner Mongolia’s ethnic schools. This shows that the Communist Party’s high-level plan to forcefully promote the Chinese language, which has been criticized as exterminating the Mongolian Culture, remains unchanged.
Officials in Inner Mongolia announced in February that starting in the fall, three subjects will be taught in Chinese in some classes at schools teaching ethnic languages across the region, and recently passed a so-called “regulation on promoting ethnic unity and progress” that is expected to take effect on May 1.
At the same Time, Hou Yuan, director of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Education Department, and Bao Zhenyu, secretary general of the regional government, were dismissed from their posts. The State Ethnic Affairs Commission is also suspected to have been replaced as a result. Chen Xiaojiang, formerly deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, was replaced as the first Han Chinese head.
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