Analysis: Xi Jinping’s fourth entry into Chongqing brings a curse, Yuan Jiajun’s career is unpredictable | Xi Jinping | Bo Xilai | Sun Zhengcai

[The Epoch Times, April 24, 2024](Reported by Epoch Times reporters Ning Haizhong and Luo Ya) Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping recently visited Chongqing for inspection. The official media specially took stock of Xi’s three visits to Chongqing since he came to power. Observers said that Xi had visited Chongqing under Bo Xilai before he came to power. Since then, Chongqing has been under a curse. Two Chongqing secretaries that Xi personally supported fell (Bo and Sun Zhengcai), and Chen Miner’s official career Not too proud, the current Yuan Jiajun’s official career is also unpredictable.

The Xinhua News Agency of the Communist Party of China reported on April 24 that Xi Jinping was inspecting Chongqing and Cai Qi accompanied him on the inspection. News footage showed that Chongqing Municipal Party Committee Secretary Yuan Jiajun also accompanied the inspection. Official media said that on the morning of the 24th, Xi Jinping “affirmed the achievements of Chongqing in various tasks.”

The official media also published another article reviewing Xi’s three trips to Chongqing after he came to power. The first two visits were in January 2016, when Xi Jinping visited Chongqing for the first time after taking office; in April 2019, Xi Jinping visited Chongqing again. However, the official media did not mention the person in charge at the time.

In fact, Xi Jinping also visited Chongqing when Bo Xilai was in power in 2010 as vice president of the country.

The current commentator Gao Xin once wrote an article “Xi Jinping’s three visits to the mountainous city were all to support the then Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee.” The article stated that in mid-2010, Xi Jinping, accompanied by Bo Xilai and Wang Lijun, visited Chongqing to visit the “Crackdown on Underworld” exhibition and sang ” “Red Song”… At the Chongqing Cadre Conference, Xi Jinping tried his best to praise Chongqing for “singing red”. Official media said that Xi Jinping, then member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the Secretariat and Vice President of the State, had issued nine instructions, “requiring that Chongqing’s “red songs” be “sung red”. Some practices should be carefully summarized and promoted.”

But Bo Xilai’s downfall came just one year and two months after Xi Jinping personally visited Chongqing to publicly support him and publicly promised to promote Chongqing’s experience of “singing celebrities and fighting criminals” nationwide.

Xi Jinping visited Chongqing again as General Secretary in 2016. At that time, external media were strongly optimistic about Sun Zhengcai with titles such as “Xi Jinping’s first visit to Chongqing after the Bo case, Sun Zhengcai is expected to join the permanent membership in the next term” and “Xi Jinping’s inspection of Chongqing confirms Sun Zhengcai”.

The Chinese Communist Party’s official media reported at the time that on the afternoon of January 4, 2016, Xi Jinping went to Chongqing Guoyuan Port for inspection and said that “there is great hope here.”

On March 16, 2016, the National People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China concluded. Hong Kong media quoted sources as saying that when Xi Jinping left the rostrum, Politburo member and Chongqing Secretary Sun Zhengcai left closely behind him, and the two even shook hands.

However, a year and a half after Xi Jinping said in Chongqing that “there is great hope here”, Sun Zhengcai fell.

In April 2019, Xi Jinping went to Chongqing again. At that time, Chongqing was governed by Chen Min’er, Xi’s old minister. However, his political performance was poor after taking office. Several media in mainland China reprinted the article “Chongqing’s economy suddenly fell off a cliff, and people across the country were worried.” Ask “What’s the reason?” article. Gaoxin believes that Xi Jinping’s public appearance in Chongqing is to support Chen Miner.

Before the 19th and 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Chen Min’er was one of the popular candidates to join the permanent membership. He was also accused of being Xi’s successor. However, he only stayed at the level of Politburo member at the two party conferences, and was eventually transferred to Tianjin.

Now during the tenure of Yuan Jiajun, who succeeded Chen Min’er, Xi Jinping went to Chongqing again.

Current affairs commentator Li Linyi told The Epoch Times that since Xi Jinping went to Chongqing to support Bo, Chongqing’s officialdom has been under a curse; after Bo and Sun fell successively, Chen Min’er will continue to clean up their “remaining poison” during his tenure. Now Yuan Jiajun came to Chongqing from Zhejiang. His official career was originally promising, but it is difficult to say whether he can escape the curse of Chongqing officialdom.

Yuan Jiajun, born in 1962, is a native of Tonghua, Jilin, and a space technology expert of the Communist Party of China. He has served as the commander-in-chief of the Shenzhou spacecraft project, the director of the China Academy of Space Technology of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the vice chairman of the Association for Science and Technology of the Communist Party of China, the executive vice chairman of the Ningxia Autonomous Region, and the provincial governor of Zhejiang Province. Secretary of the CPC Changhe Zhejiang Provincial Committee. He became a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China in October 2022 and was transferred to the position of Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China in December of the same year.

Recently, there are two completely opposite rumors overseas. One is that Yuan Jiajun is under investigation, and the other is that Yuan Jiajun is expected to become Xi’s successor.

Su Ziyun, director of the Strategy and Resources Institute of the Taiwan Institute of National Defense and Security, told The Epoch Times on April 24 that Yuan Jiajun should have been sent to Chongqing because he was valued by Xi Jinping. But the three leaders of Chongqing earlier did not end well. The Yuan Jiajun is a military-industrial gang, and now the anti-corruption campaign has involved the dismissal of a number of senior military-industrial officials, which may have an impact on current senior officials with military-industrial backgrounds, including Zhang Guoqing, Ma Xingrui and Yuan Jiajun.

Military-industrial officials who were once described as Xi’s new forces are currently being purged.

Since the end of last year, four military industry executives have been revoked as members of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, including Wu Yansheng, chairman of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Liu Shiquan, chairman of China Ordnance Industry Corporation, and Wang Changqing, deputy general manager of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation. , Wang Xiaojun, President and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the First Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology).

In addition, Yuan Jie, chairman of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, and Chen Guoying, general manager of Ordnance Equipment Group, who have been missing for several months (Yuan Jie is an alternate member of the 20th Central Committee), were announced as replacements on the same day on April 12 this year, but Their whereabouts are unknown, and there is no official mention of their dismissal.

Editor in charge: Li Renhe#

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