When the provincial party officials publicly welcomed XI Jinping as Supreme leader of the Chinese Communist party, Xinjiang party boss Zhang Tunisian evasively told reporters: “we’ll Talk later.” A few days earlier on the news website of the Xinjiang mysteriously appeared “rebellious” letter calling for si to resign.
Currently, Zhang was “reassigned,” said the state Agency “Xinhua”, not opening a new post the former chief of Xinjiang. Chinese Newspapers Ming Pao Daily in Hong Kong and Lianhe Zaobao in Singapore wrote that Zhang will serve as Deputy chief of the secretive political body in Beijing that oversees the party’s ideology.
Former party Secretary of Xinjiang, Zhang Consani. Photo: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
Over the past two months several other provincial leaders associated with the former General Secretary of the Communist party Jiang Zemin, too, was replaced and transferred to cushy jobs in Beijing. Analysts say the reshuffle is a way to control these officials.
Following the tradition of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin retained for ten years after his resignation a big influence and ran the backstage party and state Affairs. To gain the Supreme power, XI Jinping, it is necessary to eliminate the political network Jiang and ultimately himself.
Si in the framework of the campaign against corruption took many retired elite of party functionaries and their close friends, allies of Jiang. However, the removal of the running of senior officials — is another matter.
In July of this year, the three provincial party Secretary associated with Jiang Zemin and former head of the security apparatus Zhou Yongkang, was suddenly replaced and took formal positions in the legislative body in Beijing.
Of these three officials — the former party head of the province of Jiangsu Luo Zhijun, the former head of the Jiangxi Qiang Wei and former head of Shanxi province Wang Julina — only Lo dismissed in November. Usually party officials at the provincial level has not been removed in the final stage of their career.
Sudden translation of 63-year-old Zhang Tunisiana, head of Xinjiang, do not Bode well for him.
The fate of General people’s liberation army of China Wang SanPiN can tell what awaits Zhang. In 2014, Vana, an ally of Jiang Zemin, suddenly transferred from the paramilitary police, where he built his career in the General staff in Beijing. Recently, van, his wife and his aides were arrested.
Political commentator Li Tensaw noted that Zhang Tunisian and other provincial leaders associated with Jiang Zemin replaced by known allies of XI Jinping. Thus, the si in the future will strengthen the supporters of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist party, the main decision-making body, as some provincial leaders are members. Si wants to be sure that his removal of Jiang Zemin — historical gesture will be approved at the XIX National Congress of the Communist party in 2017, Li said. The party holds a national Congress every five years.
Earlier this year officials in the fight against corruption “cleared” of Shanghai, the political lair of the Jiang. Blue Zilin, a former employee of the Ministry of defense of China, said XI Jinping to increase the number of moderate voices in the top leadership, carries out the methodical dismantling of a network of Jiang, because this will remove Jiang “no coup in the country.” Many Chinese corrupt officials still support Jiang because he helped them to achieve high status and wealth.
