With the death of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin on the 30th of last month, President Xi Jinping’s single-member leadership system is expected to be further consolidated.
The general opinion is that the death of former President Zhang will not have a significant impact on President Xi’s leadership system or the retention of power, but with the death of one of the few senior politicians who have made great contributions to the development of China, the forces that usually followed it inevitably shrink.seems to do
Former President Zhang can be said to be the head of the Shanghai Bang among the three major factions in Chinese politics: △Xi Jiajun △Shanghai Party △Communist Youth League (Kongqingdan·共靑團).
The Shanghai Bang is composed of Shanghai’s political and trade connections, and has become a powerful force in China’s power since the mid-1980s.
The Shanghai Bang also exerted influence for some time after Jiang handed over power to former President Hu Jintao in 2004.
Although his power declined due to the imprisonment of former Shanghai secretary Chen Liangyu and the death of former vice premier Huang Ju, Xi Jinping produced former National People’s Congress Standing Committee chairman Zhang Dejiang in the first term and current Vice Premier Han Jeong in the second term of Xi Jinping’s government continued
However, with Xi Jinping entering his third term, it can be said that the upper and lower sides have been completely excluded from the leadership. Even high-ranking officials who worked with former President Jiang are loyal to President Xi.
In the midst of all this, with the death of former President Zhang, an elder in Chinese politics, the existence of the Shanghai Bang, whose presence has already vanished, is a red light.
In particular, as the Shanghai Bang, led by former President Zhang, is pursuing reforms and opening up, there will be virtually no forces yesterday to check President Xi, who is emphasizing the socialist line.
Meanwhile, the consensus is that the Communist Party led by former President Hu Jintao has already collapsed. Not only was former President Hu expelled from the closing ceremony of the party congress last October, but Vice Premier Hu Chun-hwa, who was slated to be the next leader of the nomination group, was also expelled from the central Politburo, for do not talk about a member of the Politburo Standing Committee.
(Seoul = News 1)
