HK Experts: Jiang Faction Promoting Power of Party “Princes”
New Tang Dynasty Television 08/03/2008
Liang Zhen in HK reporting

According to overseas shortwave news reports, Deng Xiaoping’s son, Deng Pufang and HuYaobang’s son, Hu Deping, may have been made vice-chairmen of the CCPPC (Chinese People’s Consultative Conference) in recent days. There is a long history of the offspring of CCP leaders being promoted to leadership positions at national assemblies. Though analysis suggests Hu Jintao feels indebted to party princes, Hong Kong specialists in Chinese affairs suggest that in fact the power of these princes is being promoted by the Jiang faction.

Following the central political role played by seventeen great party princes last year, many heavyweight princely figures reappeared at the two assemblies of the Political Consultative Conference held this year, including Mao Zedong’s two daughters, Li Min and Li Ne, Mao’s grandson, Mao Xinyu, Zhou Enlai’s niece, Zhou Bingjian, Li Peng’s daughter, Li Xiaolin and others, among whom Deng Xiaoping’s eldest son, Deng Pufang, and HuYaobang’s son, Hu Deping, were recently made assembly vice-chairs.

Though analysis by Reuters suggests the reason for this is Hu Jintao’s wish to repay the patronage of Deng Xiaoping and Hu Yaobang, Hong Kong Open Magazine’s executive editor Cai Yongmei who has made a deep study of the party prince problem suggests that this kind of Communist bloodline, of “old revolutionaries and their children”, has in fact been realized by assiduous maneuvering by the Jiang faction.

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Cai Yongmei: “After Jiang Zemin’s tenure in Zhongnanhai (the seat of government), factional lines were maintained with the support of Zeng Qinghong. I once heard Beijingers saying that Zeng Qinghong(’s elevation was a classic case of) cronyism, as his father Zeng Shan was an old Communist spy and his mother a red army veteran, who were both known to be party stalwarts. His ideological and blood pedigrees are extremely strong”.

Aside from the illustrious position they occupy in politics, party princes have their fingers in economic and military pies too. Recently an investigative report into Communist party officials revealed that over 90% of China’s multi-millionaires are sons and daughters of high officials, including over 2900 that possess over 2 trillion RMB in assets altogether.

Cai Yongmei believes that the power of party princes and collusion of officials and business have become principle causes of popular resentment and social inequality (in China) today.

But Open Magazine’s editor in chief Jin Zhong believes that the CCP can no longer manage such contradictions, which can only be truly resolved by the dissolution of the CCP itself.

Jin Zhong: “These days symptoms are treated as they occur; take for example the recent snow storms- everyone pitched in, but fundamental change in this kind of bureaucracy will only occur if the CCP changes its flesh and bones or steps down altogether”.

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香港開放雜誌執行編輯蔡詠梅:江澤民入主中南海以後,組織路線是由曾慶紅來主持的,我曾經聽過北京人講,曾慶紅本身就是一個權貴主義,他父親曾山是中共的老特務,母親是老紅軍,被認為是忠誠度最高,他的意識論是血統論非常強。除了在政壇上佔據顯赫地位外,太子黨還插手經濟與軍隊等領域,近日,一份中共官方研究調查報告披露,中國的億萬富豪九成以上都來自高幹子女,其中2900多名中共的高幹子女共擁有資產達2萬多億元。