Some analysts say Xi Jinping launched an anti-corruption campaign in Inner Mongolia, pointing the finger at Liu Yunshan, a major member of the Jiang faction.
The opening day of the Chinese Communist Party‘s National People’s Congress. Xi Jinping mentioned the issue of corruption when he attended the deliberations of the Inner Mongolia delegation, stressing that “accounts always have to be settled”. Hong Kong media cited analysis that the 20th CPC National Congress, Xi’s top political rival Jiang faction for a third term, and Xi’s anti-corruption campaign in Inner Mongolia may lead to the involvement of Liu Yunshan, a major member of Jiang’s faction.
According to the Chinese Communist Party media, Xi Jinping went to the NPC meeting on the 5th to participate in the deliberations of the Inner Mongolia delegation said: these two days, he saw the Communist Party of Inner Mongolia, the report on the special rectification of irregularities and violations in the field of coal resources. Inner Mongolia’s most important area is the coal sector.
Xi Jinping 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 counted. Xi Jinping, after the words, the venue was silent.
The following day, the official website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection issued an article saying that the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is the world’s largest open-pit coal mining country, 11 of the region’s 12 leagues and cities have coal mines, is the largest coal production in the country’s provinces and regions.
According to statistics, in 2019 alone, Inner Mongolia’s raw coal production reached 1.035 billion tons, accounting for 27.6% of the country’s output.
However, in the rapid development of the coal economy, a few officials in partnership with unscrupulous businessmen, the coal resources as “monk meat”, “cash machine”, the power of self-enrichment, power for personal gain. Inner Mongolia has formed more than 40 special working groups for this purpose, the coal-related violations and illegal issues “backwards 20 years. More than 1,400 people have been dealt with and disciplined.
Hong Kong’s Apple Daily quoted an analysis that Xi Jinping launched an anti-corruption storm in Inner Mongolia, in fact, the sword is pointed at the number one political enemy Jiang Zemin and his cronies. Inner Mongolia is the birthplace of Liu Yunshan, a top member of Jiang Zemin’s faction, who has been operating there for more than 20 years and has built a vast network of interests, with his Family owning tens of billions of yuan in assets.
When Xi Jinping first came to power, Liu was a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Politburo and a deputy to the National People’s Congress in Inner Mongolia. 2017 saw Liu’s retirement and little exposure. Next year is the 20th Communist Party Congress, and Xi Jinping is seeking a third term in office. This year will be his last chance to purge opposition forces.
Current affairs commentator Wei Jin published an article saying that Xi Jinping’s harsh words in said Inner Mongolia delegation are entirely due to the need for power struggle. In the past two years, Xiao Jianhua’s tomorrow system was taken over, Qinghai Province’s $10 billion illegal coal mining shady secret was exposed, and the trial of Huarong Chairman Lai Xiaomin began, all involving Xi and his political enemies competing for the “money bag”, mainly Jiang Zemin, Zeng Qinghong and other retired Communist Party bigwigs.
The Inner Mongolia mining industry has traditionally been the “money bag” of the Communist Party’s power elite, and Liu Yunshan’s birthplace. Before Liu was transferred to the Central Propaganda Department, he had served in Inner Mongolia for more than 20 years, and after leaving Inner Mongolia, he had been meddling in the local official personnel, laying down a network of connections.
The Hong Kong media has revealed that “Liu’s family has always used Inner Mongolia as a base to steal the country’s wealth and satisfy their unlimited greed” and that his family “controls the ownership of many mineral resources in Inner Mongolia, including coal mines, molybdenum mines, etc.”.
After Xi Jinping came to power, he launched an anti-corruption campaign that saw a large number of high-ranking officials fall from power, but investigated and dealt with mining corruption in Inner Mongolia. Until February 28, 2020, the Chinese Communist Party’s official media suddenly said that the Inner Mongolia authorities proposed to “reverse 20 years of coal-related corruption”, and then a large number of officials were investigated.
And the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said that more than 1,400 people have been dealt with and disciplined in Inner Mongolia so far. It is unlikely that an official collapse of this magnitude would not reach higher up, and Xi Jinping’s target would be higher up.
Among the Inner Mongolia Party secretaries in the past 20 years, including Liu Mingzu, Cuo Bo, Hu Chunhua, Wang Jun, Li Jiheng and Shi Taifeng, there were six Party secretaries. Among them, Liu Mingzu, Cuo Bo and Wang Jun have long retired, while only Hu Chunhua, the party secretary of Inner Mongolia from 2009 to 2012, is still in office and serving as vice premier of the State Council.
Li Jiheng and Shi Taifeng, who took over as party secretaries of Inner Mongolia after the 18th National Congress, were Xi Jinping’s chosen candidates for party secretary.
Therefore, some people believe that after 20 years of backtracking by the CCDI, the real threat to the incumbent who is not close to Xi Jinping may be Hu Chunhua, one of Xi’s successor candidates introduced by the regiment. But Wei Jin believes that, according to the CCP’s anti-corruption practice, those who may be in trouble should also include retired “tigers”.
During the past 20 years, Cui Bo and Wang Jun, who had long been in charge of Inner Mongolia, as well as Pan Yiyang and Yun Guangzhong, who have fallen from power, were all Jiangxi gangsters of former Standing Committee members Zeng Qinghong and Wu Guanzheng, who were exposed to have transferred huge interests, including coal mines, to the Zeng and Wu families. The family of Liu Yunshan, on the other hand, is directly involved in making a fortune in mineral resources in Inner Mongolia.
Therefore, Xi Jinping has been investigating the mining corruption in Inner Mongolia for 20 years, and has personally issued a fierce statement to settle the total account, and it is likely that not only those senior officials who have been in charge of Inner Mongolia, but also the highest ranking “tiger” is Liu Yunshan.
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