The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has ended, and in theory, stability maintenance measures should be lifted. However, in recent days, there have been reports from multiple petitioners who traveled to Beijing seeking help after being intercepted and kidnapped by local government petition officials.
On the morning of November 4th, petitioner Jiang Jiayu from Nanan District, Chongqing, was detained at the Liulihe Inspection Station on the Jingjin Highway in Tongzhou District, Beijing, after his identity was checked. The police informed the Chongqing office in Beijing to come and pick him up. Upon arrival at the office, local petition officials were also notified to come and take him away.
Jiang Jiayu posted a message in the rights protection group: “If I lose contact, please report to the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau at 010110 and the Beijing Municipal Government at 01012345.”
Another petitioner from Yubei District, Chongqing, Liu Shiyin, who traveled to Beijing by high-speed train, arrived at Beijing West Railway Station around 10 a.m. on November 3rd. He was intercepted by interceptors as soon as he left the station. Fortunately, he managed to escape the situation. However, he was intercepted again at Taoranting Bridge that same evening, and his current situation is unknown.
Zhou Xueqin, a 61-year-old disabled petitioner from Changshou District, Chongqing, disappeared after being asked to show her ID by the police at a post office in Zhongnanhai, Xicheng District, Beijing, on November 3rd at 1:14 p.m.
Four petitioners from Donghu High-tech Zone in Wuhan—Yang Jinjiao, Peng Xiu, Liu Aixiang, and Chen Huaqing—were intercepted on November 2nd around 2 p.m. when they arrived in Beijing at Beimiao South Station. Currently, their phones are unreachable. According to eyewitness petitioners at the scene, they were seen being escorted into black vehicles, urging the public to pay attention to their case.
Recently, a document titled “Stability Maintenance Measures for the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party in 2025” has been circulating online. The document outlines the specific procedures for dealing with petitioners who travel to Beijing.
The core process includes six steps: “Clearance, Targeting, Disconnection, Persuasion Back, Closing Case, and Accountability.” Each step has specific indicators and deadlines. It reveals the strict control and management measures the Chinese Communist Party has in place for handling petitioners.
One petitioner expressed his firsthand experience with stability maintenance measures, stating, “From covert surveillance, intercepting at the station, to maintaining control, this is a complete industry chain, as told by insiders within the stability maintenance personnel. When you report an issue, they find ways to profit from it. In a normal country, grievances, false accusations, and wrongful cases should not rely on petitioning to be resolved.”
Shandong private entrepreneur and petitioner Zhang Fengying, who was recently abducted in Beijing, stated to the Epoch Times reporter, “The country stipulates that police cannot intercept petitioners, but such regulations are deceiving the people. The police not only intercept normal petitioners but also arbitrarily detain them using state authority. Some petitioners are even sentenced to imprisonment. When petitioners file complaints about such incidents, the country turns a blind eye, and this is the actual behavior of the state.”