Government/Politics - 173. page

According to Minghui.org, between May 27 and August 6, 2015, the Minghui website editors received copies of criminal complaints that had been filed by 134,386 Falun Gong practitioners in China and other countries against former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin. The complaints urged the procuratorial organs [in China] to conduct criminal investigations into Jiang for his role in launching the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. The report said that, due to the Internet blockade, the actual numbers of complaints are far more than what is being reported.

Guangming Daily published an article reporting that State Owned Enterprises will be required to impose strict party disciplinary policies on their Party members. The article stated that the Central Politburo will soon issue a guideline on the Party’s Inspection Work, which the Central Inspection Group will implement. The plan is to conduct inspections that will cover all State Owned Enterprises. The article said that the guidelines should mainly focus on detecting the existence of formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance. For any identified issues, the guidelines require that they to be elevated to the Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Ministry of Organization, or Party organizations within the State Owned Enterprises. Meanwhile necessary actions should take place immediately. The article said that if the issues are being held up without being addressed, the punishment could be severe.

Source: Guangming Daily, August 10, 2015
http://politics.gmw.cn/2015-08/10/content_16604699.htm

On August 5, 2015, Xinhua News Agency published a news article titled, “Do Not Wait Anymore; No Meetings in Baidaihe.” According to the article, almost every year since Mao Zedong era until 2003, top current and retired Chinese Communist Party leaders met at the Beidaihe summer resort in July or August. The annual Beidaihe retreat meeting is one of the CCP’s most mysterious meetings. Many major decisions or policies have been made there. 

Recently, different sources have speculated on the themes of the coming Baidaihe meeting this August and whether or not one will be held. The Xinhua article recalled briefly the history of the Beidaihe meetings and concluded, “Not long ago, the CCP Central Politburo met twice, on July 20 and on July 30, which was unusual. They have already discussed "the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan," the CCP Fifth Plenary Session, economic strategies, the "anti-tiger campaign," and other important issues. The article questioned, "Is it meaningful, necessary, or possible to talk about these issues again in Baidaihe several days or ten days later?” 

China Gate and several other overseas Chinese websites translated an article from the Diplomat on Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign in the Chinese military. According to the Diplomat‘s article, Xi Jinping’s decision to expel both Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong from the Party for corruption "reflects his determination to put an end to the dominance of Jiang Zemin," who was the former chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Jiang Zemin promoted Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong to the positions of vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission and Politburo members. "Guo and Xu continued to pay allegiance to Jiang Zemin even after he retired as CMC chairman."

Source: The Diplomat, July 31, 2015 & China Gate, August 3, 2015
http://thediplomat.com/2015/07/guo-boxiong-jiang-zemin-and-the-corruption-of-the-chinese-military/
http://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2015/08/03/4459009.html

People’s Daily reported that, from the end of May through mid-June, the State Council conducted its second inspection of 35 departments in 18 provinces on how the local municipal governments carried out the assigned tasks that the State Council gave out and how the funding was applied. The audit results from the State Council showed that certain local municipal governments violated the policy on the application or use of the funding from the State Council. The audit results revealed a number of cases of misappropriation of funds. These cases included using fake documents for deceit in relation to special funding from the State Council; local municipal government collaborating with the local business to commit deception on the subsidized funding from the State Council; violations in allocating low income homes or faking the number of completed low income projects; and illegal bidding.

Source: People’s Daily, August 2, 2015
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2015/0802/c1001-27396844.html

RFA reported that August 1 was the PLA’s anniversary. PLA Daily published an opinion article on August 1 titled, “A Corrupt Military Will not Win a War.” The article expressed a vow of determination to combat corruption in the PLA. In addition to the fall of the top ranking army officials, Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou, the article reported that two more high ranking military officials have recently been taken down from their posts. RFA’s report then provided an analysis that Xia Ming, a political science professor at the City University of New York, gave on why Xi Jinping has spread his anti-corruption efforts in the military. According to Professor Xia, the first reason is that Xi is using anti-corruption as a means to regain control over the military by using his own people. The article said that, just like Hu Jintao, Xi does not have solid control of the military. This has enabled both Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou to build the military as their own kingdom. The second reason is the corruption in the military has been rampant. Xi intends to clean up the mess and improve the military’s fighting power.

Source: Radio Free Asia, August 2, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/junshiwaijiao/hc-08022015125818.html