‘Top 7’ has never served as chief secretary
On the 20th, China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that Caiqi (蔡奇, photo), member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (ranking 5) and head of the Central Office of the Communist Party of China, accompanied the state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China to Russia. did. It was confirmed that Tsai was appointed as the head of the Central Office, which had been vacant.
As the central body of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee is in charge of documents, meetings, confidentiality, information, and research-related affairs, as well as the protection of the supreme leader and health. For this reason, he is called the ‘Chief of Staff to the Supreme Leader’. Of course, the closest aide to the supreme leader is appointed, but there has never been a Standing Committee within the seventh rank of the Communist Party. This is because the members of the Standing Committee each held their own powers and formed a collective leadership system in the top leadership of the Communist Party of China.
Analysts say that this symbolizes that President Xi’s ‘one-person concentration of power’ has reached the highest level. A source familiar with the power relations of the Chinese Communist Party analyzed, “The fact that a Standing Committee member took over as Chief of Staff is itself an event that symbolizes that ‘Xi Jinping’s underworld’ has been completed.”
At the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party (party congress) in October last year, Tsai joined the Standing Committee of the Politburo, which consisted of seven members, including President Xi. Along with Prime Minister Li Chang and Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang, he is considered one of the representative runners of “Xi Jiajun,” referring to Xi’s close aides. While working in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, which are considered the political bases of President Xi, he made connections and served as vice mayor of Zhejiang Province and vice director of the Central National Security Commission Office, and in October 2016, he was suddenly selected as the deputy mayor of Beijing. He was formally promoted to mayor in January 2017, and promoted super-fast, including being promoted to Beijing Party Secretary in May of that year.
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Source: Donga
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