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Dongxiang Magazine: Zeng Qinghong’s Two Trusted Subordinates in the National Security System Sacked

Wenxuecity.com, a popular Chinese media website, republished a report (originally from Dongxiang, a Hong Kong news magazine) that suggested Zeng Qinghong might be in trouble. 

The report said, “After Xi Jinping came to power, he started to purge the Ministry of State Security, which Jiang Zemin’s faction had long dominated. Following the sack of Zeng Qinghong’s henchmen Ma Jian, Vice Minister of the CPC National Security Ministry, Zeng’s other confidant Le Dake, deputy director of the Tibetan People’s Congress, was then put under investigation.” 
Le’s dismissal was announced on the morning of June 26. He is the first provincial-level official to be investigated in Tibet after the "Eighteenth Congress of the CCP." Zeng Qinghong promoted Le and he has worked in the national security system for nearly 20 years. 
“The Hong Kong newspaper Sun reported that Tibet and Xinjiang have been resisting the anti-corruption campaign, using the excuse of exceptional circumstances. Especially at the local public security level and the national security system, corruption has become a ‘forbidden zone.’ Le Dake’s arrest shows that Xi does not recognize any forbidden zone in anti-corruption.” 

“Le’s dismissal is another major case in the state security system. He represents another important dismissed figure following the Beijing National Security Bureau head Liang Ke, Vice Minister Lu Zhongwei, and Vice Minister Ma Jian of the Ministry of State Security.” 

Source: Wenxuecity.com, June 27, 2015 

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Xinhua: Chinese Communist Party’s Grass-roots Organizations Continue to Expand

Xinhua recently reported that, according to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Organization Department’s latest statistics, as of the end of 2014, the total number of members of the Chinese Communist Party was 87.8 million, a net increase of 1.1 million over the previous year, or a growth of 1.3 percent. The Party’s grass-roots organizations had 4.36 million members, an increase of 56,000 over the previous year, or a growth of 1.3 percent.
The Party’s grass-roots organizations have continued to expand. CCP organizations are in place in 7,565 urban Street Offices (城市街道), 32,753 townships, 92,581 communities or neighborhoods (居委会), and 577,273 administrative villages, with a coverage rate of more than 99 percent. 194,000 state-owned enterprises have Party organizations, accounting for 91.0 percent of the total state-owned enterprises. Party organizations have been installed in 1.6 million non-public (private) enterprises, accounting for 53.1 percent of the total number of non-public enterprises. Party organizations have been installed in 184,000 nongovernment organizations, which is 41.9 percent of the total.
Source: Xinhua, June 29, 2015
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RFA: A Thousand Workers Renounce Their Membership in the CCP

According to Radio Free Asia (RFA), the Human Right Defender’ website quoted a report about the Dyeing and Weaving Factory in Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, which is an old state-owned enterprise in Central China. Just a few days before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was to celebrates its 94th anniversary on July 1, all of the members of the Communist Party at the factory renounced their membership in the CCP. Some of them had been Party members for decades.

There has long been a problem since the government stopped providing retirement benefits to the factory’s retirees. Employees of the factory appealed many times and even confronted the government many times. Each time they were suppressed. When the people became completely desperate, all Party members at the factory decided to renounce their membership in the Party.

Sources:
Radio Free Asia, June 29, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/5-06292015111801.html
Human Rights Defenders, June 29, 2015
http://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2015/06/blog-post_375.html

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