Hu Chunhua, a current member of the Communist Party’s Politburo and Vice Premier
When Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), visited the Inner Mongolia delegation during the 2021 CPC National Congress and said, “There is always a score to settle,” the room was reportedly “silent.
Xi’s words have a message. Some reports have disclosed the high-level factors behind the so-called “20-year backward investigation” of anti-corruption in Inner Mongolia, suggesting that similar to the “Qinling illegal construction” case in 2018, which Xi Jinping has given six instructions to fix, there are high-level instructions from Zhongnanhai behind the anti-corruption storm of coal in Inner Mongolia. The article says that in April 2020, Xi Jinping was the first person to give instructions to the government.
According to the article, when Xi Jinping was researching Shaanxi in April 2020, he said in Qinling that “the illegal construction of Qinling is a big lesson” and “don’t repeat the same mistake”. The article mentions that in April 2020, an article on the official website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection revealed the same “important instructions and instructions” on the coal-related corruption in Inner Mongolia.
The article does not specify the content of Xi’s instructions, but it is said to be “a shock and warning” to the official circles in Inner Mongolia.
The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has coal mines in 11 of its 12 leagues and cities, with about 523 coal mines. As of 2019, Inner Mongolia’s raw coal production of 1.035 billion tons, but the country’s top. Inner Mongolia has also traditionally been hardest hit by official corruption. The “four tigers” in Inner Mongolia’s political arena (former Inner Mongolia regional vice chairmen Yun Guangzhong and Bai Xiangqun, former Inner Mongolia People’s Congress deputy director Xing Yun, and former China Huadian Group general manager Yun Citizen), who were previously taken down by the authorities, were all involved in coal industry corruption. Official reports on the big corruption cases in Inner Mongolia are now mostly referring to these levels of fallen senior officials.
But since the Qinling case is of the same level as the Shaanxi case, which brought down a large number of senior officials led by Zhao Zhengyong, the former secretary of the Shaanxi provincial party committee, who were not doing Xi Jinping’s job, the “20-year backward investigation” of Inner Mongolia’s officialdom should be able to go up to at least the provincial ministerial level. And because some of these former provincial and ministerial-level officials have now risen high into the Politburo, that is, the vice state level, who will still be touched will attract attention.
The core issue of anti-corruption since Xi Jinping came to power is power struggle, the local purge corresponds to the internal struggle at the top of the Communist Party, and his close friend Chen Xinxin announced in 2020 to the political and legal system before 2022, the same, Xi handed over Shi Taifeng in Inner Mongolia to investigate 20 years backwards, in fact, is also for Xi’s own re-election in the 20th Congress to clear the hurdles, the most important is to combat the different factions in the top of the Communist Party, or at least knock, warning.
The Inner Mongolia mining industry has traditionally been the “money bag” of the Chinese Communist Party’s powerful elites. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
The case of the illegal construction of villas in Qinling, Shaanxi, Xi Jinping directly took down Zhao Zhengyong, as well as Wei Minzhou, deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial People’s Congress and former secretary of the Xi’an Municipal Committee, Chen Guoqiang and Feng Xinzhu, vice governors, Wu Xincheng, deputy secretary of the provincial political and legal committee and director of the provincial 610 office, and Qian Yinan, secretary general of the provincial party committee, and a large number of others. All of these people are former members of Zhao Leji, the secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and so Zhao is taking down his own people. A pro-Beijing Hong Kong media has disclosed that Zhao Leji was revealed to be involved in the Qinling villa case and the $100 billion mining rights case in Shaanxi, for which Xi Jinping has warned Zhao Leji. The company’s main goal is to provide a better solution to the problem.
So, this time Xi Jinping said he wants to settle the total account, who is he trying to hit in the top of the Communist Party?
Many people have thought that the authorities have been investigating 20 years of corruption in Inner Mongolia, and Hu Chunhua, the current vice premier who served as secretary in Inner Mongolia between 2009 and 2012, will not be able to get away with it. Hu Chunhua, a representative of the regiment, is also considered by the official circles to be Hu Jintao’s successor by generation, and is likely to be Li Keqiang’s successor. Recently, a U.S. media listed the first predicted list of the next Politburo Standing Committee, and Hu Chunhua is also seen as a candidate to enter the Politburo Standing Committee in the next term.
As I said in a previous article, Xi needs to find a partner who is not one of his own if he is to win the support of the party’s patriarchs and eliminate murmurs for a smooth re-election. Hu Chunhua has a cautious and low-key personality that is easy to manage, and he is willing to take on hard jobs for Xi, such as helping the poor, and taking the blame for the “South-North Water Transfer” and the Three Gorges Project, among other things left behind by the former Communist Party top brass. (See: Xi Jinping prepares weakest premier for his own re-election)
Therefore, Xi Jinping should not take down Hu Chunhua, who is not a real threat, because too much action would affect his re-election. Xi needs Hu Chunhua as a companion premier, and this mess in Inner Mongolia can be used as a pigtail for Hu Chunhua to hold in Xi’s hand. This is a good example of how to get the most out of your life.
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