Top officials in the CCP’s public security and political law system continue to be purged. Recently, Liao Jinrong, director of the International Cooperation Bureau of the CCP Ministry of Public Security, and Chen Xiaojun, director of the Comprehensive Governance Supervision Bureau of the CCP Central Committee for Political and Legal Affairs, have been transferred to idle positions, drawing attention from the outside world.
On April 15, Ma Junsheng, director of the CCP’s State Post Bureau, presided over the sixth general meeting of the director in 2021. Bureau leaders Dai Yingjun, Liu Jun, Zhao Min and Liao Jinrong attended the meeting. This news shows that Liao Jinrong, director of the International Cooperation Bureau of the Communist Party’s Ministry of Public Security, has assumed the leadership of the State Post Bureau.
Liao Jinrong, 55, has a long history of service in the CCP’s Ministry of Public Security. He worked in the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security in his early career, was a cadre in the General Office of the Ministry of Public Security from November 1997 to October 2002, served as deputy director of the Nanjing Public Security Bureau from October 2002 to April 2004, was director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security from April 2004 to April 2006, was deputy director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security in April 2006, and became director of the International Cooperation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security in 2013. In 2013, he became the Director General of the Bureau of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Public Security.
In early April, the official website of the CPC Earthquake Bureau was updated to show that Chen Xiaojun, the director of the Bureau of Comprehensive Governance and Supervision (Special Action Office) of the Central Committee of Political and Legal Affairs, had been reassigned to the CPC Earthquake Bureau as a member of the party group and deputy director in March.
Chen Xiaojun, 58, served in the Communist Party’s military in his early years and joined the Organization Bureau of the Central Party School in 1990. in May 2002, Chen moved to the political and legal system and has served as assistant inspector of the Comprehensive Governance Supervision Office of the Central Political and Legal Committee, vice president and deputy editor-in-chief of China Chang’an Publishing House, president of China Chang’an Publishing House, deputy director of the Political and Legal Team Building Guidance Office of the Central Political and Legal Committee (at the bureau level), and director of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, Director of the Comprehensive Governance Office I, etc.
In August 2018, Chen Xiaojun became the director (director) of the Comprehensive Governance Supervision Bureau (Special Action Office) of the Central Committee of Political and Legal Affairs of the Communist Party of China until he took up his new post this time.
An April 20 opinion piece in Hong Kong’s Ming Pao said that in addition to those who have fallen under accountability, the personnel shuffle in the political and legal system has not stopped. Liao Jinrong and Chen Xiaojun are both senior bureau-level cadres in the political and legal system, although the new positions belong to the central management of the bureau-level positions (the State Post Bureau and the State Earthquake Bureau are both at the deputy ministerial level), among the ranks of the “central cadres”, but only a good name, but the essence of the key departments to the cold office, there are suspicions of being marginalized.
In the past year, a number of senior provincial and ministerial-level political and legal officials have fallen from the Communist Party’s public security system, including former Vice Minister of Public Security Sun Lijun, Chongqing Public Security Bureau Director Deng Guolin, Shanghai Public Security Bureau Director Gong Daogan, Jiangsu Provincial Political and Legal Committee Secretary Wang Like, and former Deputy Director of the Central “610 Office” Peng Bo.
On April 9, Liu Xinyun, Vice Governor of Shanxi Province and Director of the Provincial Public Security Department, was investigated.
On March 31, Liu Xinyun attended the mobilization meeting of the third central supervisory group of the first batch of education and rectification of the political and legal forces in Shanxi. 9 days later, Liu Xinyun fell from the horse.
Liu Xinyun has served in the Communist Party’s public security system for 40 years, including 33 years in Shandong. People close to the official circles in Shanxi revealed that Liu Xinyun’s style is overbearing and has a very bad reputation in Shanxi police circles.
Liu Xinyun’s career was promoted by Jiang faction political and legal bigwigs Meng Jianzhu and Guo Shengkun. Liu Xinyun had been friends with Sun Lijun and Gong Daoan for several years.
Sun Lijun was a member of the Communist Party Committee and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Public Security when he fell. Gong Daogan served in the Ministry of Public Security of the CPC from November 2010 to June 2017. Liu Xinyun served at the Ministry of Public Security from December 2014 to January 2018 as director of the Network Security Protection Bureau and director of the National Information Communication Center for Network and Information Security. The three served in the same Ministry of Public Security for several years, and their work intersected.
Liu Xinyun’s fall came at a sensitive time, just after the Communist Party’s Public Security Minister Zhao Kezhi said he called for “cleaning up the influence of Sun Lijun and other poisonous influences” and the Central Supervisory Group’s arrival in Shanxi.
The fall of Liu Xinyun and the reassignment of Liao Jinrong and Chen Xiaojun to unoccupied positions are a continuous purge of Meng Jianzhu and Sun Lijun’s old team, said Li Linyi, a commentator on current affairs.
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