Chairman Wei Xiaodong of the Beijing Municipal CPPCC was removed from his position on June 6, 2026 and his national CPPCC membership was revoked half a month later. Wei Xiaodong, a native of Zhangzhou, Fujian, has close ties with the Fujian faction of the Chinese Communist Party led by Xi Jinping, including Cai Qi and Chen Xi.
According to a report by Xinhua News Agency, on June 22, 2026, Wang Huning, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party and Chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC, presided over the 52nd Chairman’s Meeting of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC.
The meeting reviewed and approved the decision to revoke the CPPCC membership of Wei Xiaodong and Hou Guisong, members of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC, and requested the 17th meeting of the Standing Committee of the National CPPCC to confirm.
On April 24, 2026, the 50th Chairman’s Meeting of the National CPPCC decided to hold the 17th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National CPPCC in late June. The specific date of the meeting has not been announced on the official website of the National CPPCC.
Wei Xiaodong, Chairman of the Beijing Municipal CPPCC, was removed from his position on June 6, 2026. Hou Guisong, Director of the Hebei Provincial Bureau of Data and Administration, voluntarily surrendered himself for investigation on June 12, 2026.
On June 22, 2026, independent media personality Sato Kosuke posted on X Platform stating that Wei Xiaodong, the Chairman of the Beijing Municipal CPPCC, was officially removed from his position by the Communist Party’s discipline inspection commission in early June. It is uncommon for his membership in the CPPCC to be revoked so quickly, as typically a few months are needed for the investigation to conclude before such actions are taken. This shows that due to the high number of Communist officials who have fallen from grace this year, the discipline inspection commission is now emphasizing swift and decisive actions.
After Wei Xiaodong’s downfall on June 6, 2026, commentator Jiang Wang, who has been exposing the movements of high-ranking Communist officials, posted on the same day stating that Wei Xiaodong was a political broker for the “Five Tigers of Minjiang” (Cai Qi, Huang Kunming, He Lifeng, Wang Xiaohong, Chen Xi). It is expected that there will be a large number of provincial and ministerial-level officials investigated in the near future, mainly due to Wei Xiaodong facilitating the buying of official positions from Huang Kunming, Cai Qi, He Lifeng, Chen Xi, and Wang Xiaohong.
According to publicly available information, Wei Xiaodong was born in May 1961 in Zhangzhou, Fujian, and graduated from Xiamen University with a major in planning statistics in the Department of Planning Economy. He is a former schoolmate of He Lifeng at Xiamen University.
Wei Xiaodong had long served in the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the Communist Party of China and the Office of the Central Organization Committee. During Chen Xi’s tenure as Executive Vice Minister of the Organization Department, Wei Xiaodong was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Organization Committee in August 2016, and in April 2017, he was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee and Minister of the Organization Department. At that time, Cai Qi was serving as the Deputy Secretary and Mayor of the Beijing Municipal Committee, while Wang Xiaohong was the Deputy Minister of Public Security and concurrently the Deputy Mayor and Director of the Public Security Bureau of Beijing.
After the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party, Cai Qi became a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party and Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee, and Chen Xi was promoted to a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party and Minister of the Organization Department. Subsequently, in January 2021, Wei Xiaodong was appointed as the Vice Chairman and Deputy Secretary of the Party Group of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People’s Congress and Chairman of the Beijing Federation of Trade Unions. In August 2021, he became the Secretary of the Party Group of the Beijing Municipal CPPCC, and in January 2022, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Beijing Municipal CPPCC, rising to the level of a departmental-level official.
Following Chen Xi’s resignation as the President of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China, he was also removed from his position as the President of the National School of Administration on June 18, 2026, with Cai Qi taking on the role. As Chen Xi stepped down recently, several independent media commentators have speculated that his dramatic demotion from the vice-ministerial level to the deputy bureau-level may be related to the case of Wei Xiaodong.