China’s “Two Sessions” are currently underway. Premier Li Keqiang’s last “Government Work Report” on the 5th was described by foreign media as “sweaty and quickly completed in an hour. After Xi Jinping shook hands with him in a second, he turned his head and left.” Obviously Li Keqiang wanted to correct Let history explain, and then retire with “grievances”. What happened to Li Keqiang is reminiscent of ten years ago, Wen Jiabao also emphasized that the reform and opening up cannot be stopped, and the Cultural Revolution will never be allowed to repeat. The two have the same attitude, different levels of tragic, but the same sense of powerlessness. Why did the two prime ministers feel unfulfilled when they left office?
This is the defect of the CCP system. The incumbent is incompetent or unable to achieve the goal, and is bound by invisible shackles. He can only beat the drums and pass on the lofty economic or political reform goals to his successors. Li Keqiang was even more wronged than Wen Jiabao. Wen was still able to visit foreign countries before leaving office. He held a press conference to express “I hope the Chinese people forget me”, reminding everyone not to forget the respect for the human heart, humanity and human nature, and the respect for fairness and justice, youth and freedom. , The pursuit of struggle, although it is ridiculed by the outside world as “the actor’s show”, at least there is still room for expression.
On the other hand, Li Keqiang, it can be said that his term of office hastily ended. Not only was he excluded from the Standing Committee of the Politburo, but even the final handshake with the top leader Xi Jinping seemed to be ignored. The State Council released a video of the officials’ outdoor farewell ceremony. The title is “Heaven has eyes! People are watching.” Li Keqiang’s speech did not contain sensitive content, but was balanced and stable.
These scenes all reveal that Xi Jinping is determined to be one, Li Keqiang, Wang Yang and others from the Tuanpai are removed from the core circle of power, and Xi’s family members are all formed into a ruling team. The economic power has always been held by the Prime Minister. Even though the economy is nominally dominated by Premier Li Qiang, Li Qiang Xi’s confidant, Xi has seized political and economic power. When Li Keqiang resigned, he was described as “the premier with the highest education, the least power, and the weakest since the reform and opening up”.
The media also noticed that Li Keqiang sweated and spoke at a faster pace during his work report, which took only one hour to complete. References to Xi Jinping’s achievements can be seen everywhere in the report, and some people said that it “violated Li’s personal conscience and cognition.” Li kept bowing his head to read the manuscript, with several pauses in the middle. He basically finished reading it according to the manuscript. He was not as calm as Wen Jiabao, who was able to hold a press conference to remind him earnestly, and wanted to leave a name for history.
After the opening meeting of the National People’s Congress, Xi Jinping took the initiative to walk up to Li Keqiang and shake hands with him. However, Xi Jinping did not look at Li Keqiang when he shook hands. Overseas Chinese scholars believe that although Li Keqiang emphasized the importance of reform and opening up, he did not have the courage and courage to challenge Xi Jinping, repeating the old path of retreating with all his strength and landing safely, which is the degeneration of the CCP ruling group.
When Wen Jiabao was in charge of the State Council, under Hu Jintao’s “no fuss”, he was able to let go of the economy and launched a 4 trillion yuan stimulus plan. Even though it was criticized as “advancement of the state and retreat of the people”, when he was with Li Keqiang, policies such as anti-epidemic Compared with Xi Jinping’s “personal command and personal deployment”, Wen has more room to play. When he left office, he warned that the Cultural Revolution might resume and secretly criticized Bo Xilai. , It shows that when a person is in power, he has power, and after leaving office, he can only hide his strength and bide his time, and seek more blessings for himself.
Both Wen Jiabao and Li Keqiang emphasized that the reform and opening up should continue. They seem to want to highlight that the Tuanpai is more down-to-earth than the second generation of reds and more in line with the expectations of the outside world. It also sets off the suppression of Alibaba, Baidu, Private companies such as Tencent and Douyin, the expansion of state advancement and private retreat, the trial restoration of supply and marketing cooperatives and canteens in some townships last year, and the trial of students going to the countryside in a small number of schools, etc., are considered to be the first signs of a leftward shift in policy.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP) has always been set in one position. Although there are factional power sharing checks and balances within the party, there has never been a real second sun. On the surface, it is advertised as collective decision-making. The prime minister is in charge of the economy. Major decisions must be passed by the Central Standing Committee. He Wen and Li When the Prime Minister left office, people felt that he was full of grief and indignation, worried that the reform and opening up would not be sustainable, or that the Cultural Revolution would repeat itself? Why didn’t they try to guard against it when they came to power?
The accelerated flight of mainland capital and foreign companies in recent years reflects the doubts brought about by the uncertainty of the economic development path after Xi Yan took office. Xi Jinping made little mention of reform and opening up in his speech at the 20th National Congress, and China’s exports have shrunk in the past few months this year, which is not optimistic. Over the past 20 years, the two prime ministers have hardly had the reform spirit shown by Zhao Ziyang during their term of office. When they left office, they both emphasized that reform and opening up cannot be stopped. Wen Geng bluntly said that political system reform is necessary. However, the reform of the political system requires the CCP to open up and hand over power, allowing enterprises to play freely and the power of the middle class to grow stronger.
After Xi Jinping centralized power, the so-called not forgetting the original intention and remembering the mission means that the reform and opening up will not make big progress, and may even go backwards. Li Keqiang’s tragic resignation is a symbol of the system’s intolerance of freedom and openness. Hu Chunhua’s expulsion from the Politburo and Hu Jintao’s removal from the meeting are all elegiac songs of the Youth League faction’s views and power decline.
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