The important institutions of the State Council are placed under the top leadership of the CCP.
The Second Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing. The highlight of this meeting was to determine the "Party and State Institutional Reform Plan", which included the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Security and other departments related to national politics, social finance, etc., under the jurisdiction of the top leaders of the Communist Party of China. According to the analysis of scholars, this move is not the unity of the party and the government, but to strengthen the control of power by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. China is about to enter an era of strong party and weak government.
The opening of the Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sets the tone, and the reform plan of the party and government institutions at the Second Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is about to come out
The three-day Second Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held at Jingxi Hotel in Beijing this Sunday (26th). In addition to "recommending" the list of Chinese leaders such as the Premier of the State Council, the Chairman of the National People's Congress, and the Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to the National Two Sessions, the agenda of the meeting also deliberated and approved the "Party and State Institutional Reform Plan." Earlier, Hong Kong media reported that the Chinese Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of State Security will separate from the State Council system and be subordinate to the newly established "Central Internal Affairs Commission" (tentative name) directly under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Another source said that the agencies and institutions directly under the ministries and commissions of the State Council, such as financial institutions, will also separate from the State Council. Save money.
Hong Xiangnan, a scholar on China who is currently living in Japan, said in an interview with this station on Monday (27th) that the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Security are important departments to ensure China’s political, economic and social security. China has entered an era of strong party and weak government, rather than real reform. He said: "The future can only be a strong party and a weak government. The government department can only be a working group, running errands, handling errands, and handling some basic government affairs. The core affairs are not under the government's control. It is to strengthen the party's leadership. It is not the unity of the party and the government. And the local government does not necessarily have an internal affairs committee, it is enough to have a corresponding interface, and it does not need to be established at different levels.”
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China requires the whole party to "prepare to withstand storms and storms." The report mentioned "struggle" 17 times and "security" 73 times. Analysis pointed out that China's "institutional reform" reflects that the authorities are redistricting the control system and strengthening the CCP's control over the government. Hong Xiangnan said that the authority of the State Council has been greatly reduced, which seems to follow the management model of the former Soviet Union: "The Internal Affairs Committee coordinates the judiciary, which is more powerful than the original Political and Legal Committee. The Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee can enter the Standing Committee, and now the Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee has withdrawn from the Standing Committee. Zhou Yongkang After that, the secretary of the Political and Legal Committee couldn’t join the Standing Committee, and the Second Plenary Session was very strange.”
Institutional reforms were not considered at the Second Plenum five years ago
The main agenda of the Second Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee five years ago was to discuss and study proposals to amend parts of the constitution. The meeting listened to the work report of the Central Commission for Disciplinary Inspection, and studied and deployed the construction of party style and clean government and anti-corruption work in 2018. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting. However, the review of the State Council's institutional reform plan and the election and appointment of members of the state agency were not included in the deliberations of the plenary session.
In this regard, Hong Xiangnan, a scholar who is familiar with the party affairs of the CCP, said that the institutional reform should only be decided at the Central Plenary Session if it cannot be resolved at the Politburo meeting: After the general opening, after the first plenary session of the Central Committee determined the basic issues, such matters were no longer violent. Until the two sessions, they were carried out directly according to the established procedures. But this time, the second plenary session of the central committee suddenly announced the need for institutional reforms before the two sessions. It proves that the implementation of the established line of the First Plenary Session is difficult or impossible. These are all possible.”
CCP Resolutely Cleans Up Households to Consolidate Power
Last Thursday, Li Xi, member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, said at the National Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Cadre Team Education, Reorganization and Mobilization Deployment Conference that we must "resolutely clean up the door", "clean up and clean up the organization", "strengthen the ability to fight" and "truly let the The Party Central Committee and General Secretary Xi Jinping are at ease."
Ma Ju, a senior media person, believes that the outside rumors about the establishment of the internal committee of the CPC Central Committee are in line with Xi Jinping's logic of governing the country. He told this station that in recent years, the authorities have expanded supply and marketing cooperatives and increased reserves of strategic materials:
"Now we see that we need to sharpen our knives externally, and we also need to sharpen our knives internally. More importantly, we need to control our own fundamentals. He returned to the 1950s by establishing the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other methods, or returned to the state of wartime, It is to control everything, plan everything, and arrange everything. In fact, the Ministry of Public Security has always listened to the party's words, but now it is more important that this method cooperates with what was just passed two days ago. When the military is in control, it is necessary to carry out the so-called great struggle of."
Ma Ju also said that the relevant authorities have always used the so-called great struggle to finally achieve the purpose of consolidating their status and rule.