The Chinese Communist Party’s National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held its annual New Year tea party, which Xi Jinping has attended and addressed every year since he became general secretary of the CPC Central Committee. The other six Standing Committee members including Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Han Zheng and Vice President Wang Qishan also attended the tea party. The color of the ties of different CPC Standing Committee members also changed at the New Year tea party.
“Wang Qishan, the eighth member of the Standing Committee, is attracting attention
The official Chinese Communist Party (CCP) news agency Xinhua reported on December 31, 2020 that the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held a New Year’s tea party in the auditorium of the CPPCC National Committee on the morning of December 31.
On October 2, 2020, the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China announced that Dong Hong, former deputy ministerial-level inspector of the Central Inspection Group, was suspected of serious violations of the law and fell from power.
Looking at this person’s career history, he followed Wang Qishan after 2000 and served in many places, including as deputy secretary-general of the Guangdong Provincial Government, director of the Industry Department of the State Council’s Economic System Reform Office, deputy secretary-general of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee, and deputy secretary-general of the Beijing Municipal Government. As such, he has been described by Hong Kong’s pro-Communist media as Wang Qishan’s “first secretary” and “first butler”.
Radio France, Deutsche Welle, and Taiwan‘s United Daily News reported that the political implications of Dong Hong’s position have attracted public attention and speculation because he is a former member of Wang Qishan’s staff, and because Ren Zhiqiang, a real estate entrepreneur with close ties to Wang Qishan, was previously sentenced to 18 years in prison by Beijing authorities.
Radio France quoted Hong Kong current affairs commentator Liu Ruishao as saying that Wang Qishan is capable of challenging Xi Jinping’s authority within the Communist Party, so Xi Jinping has begun to purge his party in order to maintain his position.
Radio France reports that since the outbreak of the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic, Chinese mainland media close to Wang Qishan have revealed some truths that the CCP has concealed, causing a rift between Xi and Wang.
On October 19, 2020, Xi Jinping and seven other members of the Standing Committee visited the Revolutionary Military Museum in Beijing with Wang Qishan to see a special exhibition on the 70th anniversary of the “Anti-US Aid to North Korea”. Wang Qishan’s appearance attracted attention because the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, held at the Beijing West Hotel from Oct. 26 to 29, 2020, was a closed-door meeting.
Color of tie changes at CPC Standing Committee tea party
The official media reported pictures showing that, unlike previous New Year’s tea parties, this year Xi Jinping and other seven members of the Standing Committee and Wang Qishan were not lined up for a photo, but watched the program with others around a round table. From the pictures provided by the official media Xinhua News Agency over the years, the color of the tie of the seven Standing Committee members, including Xi Jinping, was unified in red at the CPPCC tea party from Dec. 31, 2014 to Dec. 30, 2016.
From the December 29, 2017 CPPCC New Year tea party, the old and new Standing Committee tie color has changed, basically divided into red and blue color, of which Li Zhanshu, Wang Huning, Han Zheng and Zhang Gaoli are blue tie, but Wang Qishan and Liu Yunshan did not show up.
On December 29, 2018, only Wang Huning was a blue tie.
From Dec. 31, 2019 to Dec. 31, 2020, both Wang Huning and Han Zheng insist on blue ties.
From Dec. 31, 2019 to Dec. 31, 2020, Wang Huning and Han Zheng have a tacit agreement
Comprehensive analysis of overseas media reports and commentary said that the old and new Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, usually Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Zhao Leji, Wang Qishan and Yu Zhengsheng are allies, while Wang Huning, Han Zheng, Zhang Dejiang, Liu Yunshan and Zhang Gaoli are considered to be the faction of Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong is very colorful.
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