The 4th Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is scheduled to take place next week, as the internal cleansing within the CCP continues. Xu Chuanzhi, the former deputy-level inspector of the Central Inspection Commission, has been taken down today (October 14th). Following Dong Hong, another former deputy-level disciplinary officer under the former Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the CCP, Wang Qishan, has been implicated.
According to Xinhua News Agency on October 14th, Xu Chuanzhi, the former deputy-level inspector of the Central Inspection Commission, is under investigation for alleged “serious violations of discipline and law.”
Public records show that Xu Chuanzhi, born in February 1957 in Zhucheng, Shandong Province, worked as a educated youth, private teacher, and substitute teacher in the Chalson Commune of Keerqin Banner, Inner Mongolia in his early years. After graduating from the Chinese Department of Northeast Normal University in February 1982, he joined the Discipline Inspection Commission and worked there for 33 years. From 2009 to 2011, he successively held the positions of chief disciplinary inspector at the General Office of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission, supervisor, and director of the Supervision Office of the Liaison Office of the Central Government in Macau.
Under Wang Qishan’s leadership of the Discipline Inspection Commission, Xu Chuanzhi served as the director of the Party Discipline and Political Discipline Supervision Office of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission, the head of the Discipline Inspection Group of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, and a member of the Party Group of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission. From April 2016 to January 2018, he was a member of the Standing Committee of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Party Committee and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission. Additionally, he was a member of the 19th Central Discipline Inspection Commission and the chief of the First Inspection Group of the 19th Central Inspection Team.
Xu Chuanzhi’s resume indicates that he was highly valued during Wang Qishan’s tenure.
Wang Qishan, who later became a member of the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee and the Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission, then assumed the position of Vice President of China after stepping down as Vice President. However, in recent years, his close subordinates have frequently encountered troubles.
Another former deputy-level inspector, Dong Hong, who had followed Wang Qishan for many years, was sentenced to death with a reprieve in 2022 for bribery.