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Before and following the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the party entered the stage of personnel reshuffle. The source pointed out that Chen Miner, the party secretary of Chongqing, who is regarded as Xi Jinping’s favorite general, may be transferred to the party secretary of Shanghai, but there are objections within the party. Cai Qi, Li Qiang, Li Hongzhong and other municipal secretaries are expected to be promoted to the central government.
According to the Central News Agency quoted a Hong Kong media report today, the 20 major personnel reshuffles of the Communist Party of China, and Chen Miner’s plan to transfer to Shanghai, aroused dissent within the party. According to Hong Kong Ming Pao news citing people familiar with the matter in Beijing, Ding Xuexiang, director of the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, who is also a member of the Politburo with the above-mentioned four people, is expected to rise to a higher level; another Politburo member, Vice Premier Liu of the State Council of China Crane, although he is 70 years old this year, has reached the retirement age of the Politburo’s “seven ups and eights”, but because the Sino-US rivalry is still ongoing and “still relied on by the central government”, he may not retire following the 20th National Congress.
Among the members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee in recent years, the party secretaries of the municipalities directly under the Central Government such as Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Chongqing, as well as the six provincial-level administrative regions of Guangdong Province and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, are all members of the Politburo of course.
Among the six local officials who entered the Politburo at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2017, Chen Quanguo has stepped down as Xinjiang secretary, but the new position has not been announced so far. It was previously rumored that he would take over as the deputy head of the Rural Work Leading Group of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, but it has not been confirmed so far.
As for Chen Miner, Beijing Municipal Party Committee Secretary Cai Qi, Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Secretary Li Qiang, Tianjin Municipal Party Committee Secretary Li Hongzhong, and Guangdong Provincial Party Committee Secretary Li Xi, according to reports, as usual, following the upcoming National “Two Sessions”, there will be new Job arrangement.
According to the report, people familiar with the matter pointed out that Li Xi will be the last time to attend as a representative of the National People’s Congress of Guangdong Province, and will be transferred to Beijing following the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China; Li Hongzhong and Li Qiang will also be transferred to Beijing. And Cai Qi, who was already working in Beijing, is expected to “go to the next level”. Li Qiang was Xi Jinping’s right-hand man when he was secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee. The source pointed out that if Li emphasized joining the central government, Chen Miner is expected to take over the vacancy of Shanghai party secretary. However, there is still disagreement within the party over the move.
According to the unwritten rule of “seven ups and eight downs” (re-elected at 67 and retired at 68) by the Politburo members, by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in addition to Xi Jinping, Li Zhanshu and Han Zheng will also have reached their age; Nine members of the Politburo, including Xu Qiliang, Wang Chen, Liu He, Sun Chunlan, Yang Jiechi, Chen Xi, Yang Xiaodu, Zhang Youxia and Guo Shengkun, have also expired. Under Xi Jinping’s re-election, the entire Politburo will have 11 vacancies. The newspaper mentioned that it is expected that following the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, more party and government officials who had connections with Xi Jinping during his local politics would be promoted to the Politburo.
