Chen Gang, deputy secretary of the CPC Hebei Provincial Committee and director of the Xiongan New Area Management Committee, has recently moved to Beijing as secretary of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) party group, sparking speculation that he has been moved into an idle position at a young age. Officials have announced that Zhang Guohua, a member of the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee, has moved across the province to Hebei to take over from Chen Gang as a member of the Standing Committee of the provincial party committee, and may become the new head of the Xiongan New Area. The Xiong’an New Area in Hebei, which Xi Jinping has personally promoted as a “thousand-year plan,” has become China’s biggest “bad project.
On December 28, the CPC Central Committee issued a new personnel order that Zhang Guohua, a member of the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee, will take up a new post in Hebei, replacing Chen Gang as a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee. As Chen Gang was also the secretary of the party working committee and director of the management committee of Xiong’an New Area, it is believed that Zhang Guohua is expected to replace him as the secretary of Xiong’an New Area.
According to public information, Zhang Guohua, born in November 1964, is a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, and has served as deputy general manager of Suzhou Materials Holding (Group) Co. Party Working Committee Secretary, Deputy Secretary and Acting Mayor of Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, Deputy Secretary and Mayor of Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, Secretary of Xuzhou Municipal Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress, Jiangsu Province; Vice Governor of Yunnan Province in January 2018; Standing Committee of Yunnan Provincial Committee, Minister of United Front Work Department, Vice Governor in April 2020; Standing Committee of Yunnan Provincial Committee, Minister of United Front Work Department, Deputy Secretary of the Party Group of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference in June 2020; Deputy Secretary of the Party Group in In December, he became a member of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee.
Just before Zhang Guohua went north, the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee was adjusted, with Chen Gang, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, secretary of the party working committee and director of the management committee of Xiongan New Area, going to Beijing as secretary of the CPC National Federation of Trade Unions (NFTU) party group, becoming a full ministerial official.
The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is chaired by Wang Dongming, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, and Li Yufu, former party secretary, is 66 years old and retiring at that age.
But in the eyes of the outside world, Chen Gang suddenly transferred to the National Federation of Trade Unions, such as the body is considered idle, is obviously a clear promotion.
Some analyses say that Wang Dongming, now 64, was transferred from secretary of the Sichuan provincial party committee to vice chairman of the NPC in 2018 at the age of 62, and is also chairman of the National Federation of Trade Unions. Li Yufu, who moved from deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to party secretary of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions six years ago, is also 60 years old. Now Chen Gang at the age of 55 transferred to an idle position in the National Federation of Trade Unions, is considered to have a bleak career prospects.
The 55-year-old Chen Gang, who has a PhD in chemistry from Peking University, served as secretary of Beijing’s Chaoyang District Committee, a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee, and after the 18th National Congress as a member of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial Committee and secretary of the Guiyang Municipal Committee. in May 2017, he was transferred to Hebei Province as a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Committee, deputy secretary of the Party Group of the provincial government, and secretary of the Party Working Committee and director of the Management Committee of Xiongan New Area. In July of the same year, Chen Gang was appointed vice governor of Hebei Province. in October 2020, he became deputy secretary of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee. In November of the same year, he no longer served as vice governor of Hebei Province.
Chen Gang’s sudden departure is also seen as a sign that the construction of Xiongan New Area has displeased the central government.
Since April 1, 2017, when the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the Chinese State Council decided to establish the Xiongan New Area, the “No. 1 project”, which was given the title of “Millennium Plan” by the CPC No. 1 figure, has been questioned for a long time for not starting large-scale construction.
On January 16, 2019, Xi Jinping expressed his dissatisfaction during a research trip to Xiong’an New Area in Hebei, saying that Xiong’an “has barely moved a single brick or tile in the past two years”.
On April 1, 2020, a number of pictures released by the Chinese official media CNA reported that the main structure of the Xiong’an New Area site is still not completed and there is a large area of wasteland around it.
Reuters reported on Aug. 31 that in the eyes of Mr. Zhang, a native of Xiong County, Hebei, three years have passed since the State Council decided to establish the Xiong’an New Area on April 1, 2017, and as far as the eye can see, Xiong County does not seem to have changed much, except for the propaganda slogans hanging everywhere on the streets.
The report said that on Sunday, the famous Baiyangdian, although the scenic spot is not open under the epidemic, there is no shortage of villagers running tourism in the many villages around the precipitation, you can still rent small boats and row through the reeds of Baiyangdian, while the disorderly and chaotic houses that can be seen on the shore from time to time highlight the lack of planning here.
In an interview with the foreign media, Dr. Wang Weiluo, a renowned expert in environmental ecology living in Germany, said that the location of Xiongan New Area was a wrong decision, a decision without common sense. This is why the Xiongan New Area cannot be developed.
Wang Weiluo said that Baiyangdian is in the most low-lying area of the North China Plain, which is geologically called the North China Depression, a collapsed area with many fractures. It is covered with the impact layer of the Yellow River, because for a while, the Yellow River did not follow the current course, but entered the sea from Tianjin, so it is covered with a layer of silt from the Yellow River, which is the lowest place in the whole North China Plain. Once “flooded, the money invested will be lost”.
Wang Weiluo said that the Communist Party leaders make decisions that violate common sense. As long as a system it is not open, not a transparent, not everyone can criticize, he will easily make such a simple mistake.
In addition to Chen Gang’s departure, the Xiongnu New Area has previously seen frequent personnel moves in the second half of 2019. on September 2, Liu Chuncheng, who was 51 years old and served as general manager of the Xiongnu Group in August 2017, was transferred to the position of secretary of the party group of the Hebei Academy of Sciences. on September 3, Niu Jingfeng, who had served as deputy director of the party group work department of the Xiongnu New Area since Hebei was preparing for the establishment of the Xiongnu New Area, was also transferred to the Hebei Engineering University Party Committee Standing Committee.
The transfer of these key players in the construction of Xiongan New Area seems to have released a bad signal that the project is rotten.
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