The Chinese Communist Party will hold its 20th Central Committee Third Plenum in July. The General Office of the Communist Party of China recently released a “Party and Government Leadership Team Building Plan,” emphasizing political loyalty and improving the mechanism to implement important directives and instructions of the Party Leader Xi Jinping. Observers believe that this reflects a general lack of loyalty to Xi Jinping in the officialdom, with many disregarding his leadership.
According to a report by Xinhua News Agency on June 14th, the General Office of the Communist Party of China issued the “National Party and Government Leadership Team Building Plan Outline (2024-2028).” The Central Organization Department stated that the document highlights the political attributes and functions of leadership teams, emphasizing the importance of “forging political loyalty” and improving the mechanism for leadership teams to “implement the major decisions of the Party Central Committee” and Xi Jinping’s “important directives and instructions.”
Political commentator Li Linyi told Epoch Times on June 15th that with the upcoming Third Plenum next month, the leaked document unexpectedly confirms a major issue, which is the widespread lack of loyalty to Xi Jinping in the officialdom. Many officials either passively resist or pay lip service to his directives, prompting the emphasis on loyalty and the “improvement” of the command-following mechanism through the issuance of this document. The authorities’ desire to gain officials’ loyalty is likely unattainable, leading to increased pressure through intensified rectifications. This is an ominous signal for the upcoming Communist Party’s Third Plenum.
In recent years, official information from the Communist Party of China has also revealed widespread resistance to Xi Jinping within the officialdom.
Xi Jinping, who proclaimed himself as the “core” after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, has faced public disregard from local officials in recent years. An example is the delayed demolition of illegal villas in Qinling, which Xi criticized six times but only took action after a deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection led the demolition in August 2018, leading to subsequent purges in the Shaanxi officialdom.
In a year-end special feature published on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in December 2021, it was revealed that from January to October 2021, there were 247,000 cases of poor implementation of Xi Jinping’s “important directives and instructions” and “major decisions of the Central Committee.”
Commentator Tang Jingyuan, currently in the United States, told Epoch Times that the sheer number of cases of ineffective implementation of Xi Jinping’s directives across the country in the span of 10 months indicates widespread passive resistance within the Communist Party’s officialdom.
In October 2019, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection reported that Liu Shiyu, the former chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission who had fallen from grace, exhibited poor implementation of the Central Committee’s major decisions among other failures.
Jiao Xiaoping, former Deputy Commander and Party Committee Standing Committee Member of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, was expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office on July 27, 2023, accused of deviating from the Central Committee’s decisions, exacerbating hidden government debt risks, and creating financial security risks.
In November 2023, the Ministry of Finance reported eight typical cases of local government hidden debt accountability, involving nearly 46 billion RMB of additional hidden debt. The Ministry criticized local officials for failing to implement central directives effectively, altering them, and seriously affecting the effectiveness of risk prevention and resolution of hidden debt.
In November 2023, an article published by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection pointed out varying degrees of risks and hazards within various units of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including failure to resolutely implement Xi Jinping’s diplomatic ideologies, important directives and instructions, and decision deployments.
In May 2024, the official website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission reported that Yang Kening, former Vice Chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, was expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office, accusing him of cutting corners in implementing major decisions of the central government, being negligent and passive.
Legal expert Yuan Hongbing, based in Australia, previously told Epoch Times that he understood that three types of conditions now exist among Chinese Communist Party officials: widespread dissatisfaction, universal passivity or inaction, and outward displays of extreme loyalty to Xi Jinping while privately expressing discontent. “The vast majority of Communist Party officials are now what Xi Jinping himself would call two-faced,” he said.