Hong Kong's "Ming Pao" reported that Jiang Jinquan, the former chief think tank of the Chinese Communist Party and former director of the Central Policy Research Office, has been absent from important meetings in recent months, causing outsiders to pay attention to the possibility that something may happen to him.
Jiang Jinquan has served as Wang Huning's subordinate and deputy in the Central Policy Research Office for more than ten years, and is considered the number one "penmaster" under Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China. Previously, social media reported that Jiang Jinquan's family was taken away and their home was ransacked. Since Jiang Jinquan is a subordinate of Wang Huning, Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Jiang Jinquan's investigation was actually aimed at Wang Huning.
The Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress of the Communist Party of China held its first plenary meeting in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of the 2nd. 154 members of the Standing Committee attended the meeting. However, "Ming Pao" reported on the 3rd that China's "CCTV" news broadcast footage showed that Jiang Jinquan, who resigned as director of the Central Policy Office at the end of last year and was transferred to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and deputy chairman of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Commission, did not attend the meeting. At the National People's Congress Standing Committee meeting held at the end of August, Jiang Jinquan was also absent.
In fact, as early as July this year, there were rumors on the Internet that Jiang Jinquan's family was taken away. There are different opinions as to the cause of his accident. On July 19, multiple self-media accounts on the
Independent current affairs commentator Cai Shenkun posted on X on July 22 that Jiang Jinquan is considered an important theoretical writer appreciated by Xi Jinping, but there has been a long-term conflict between him and Wang Huning. Due to the conflict with Wang Huning, Jiang Jinquan was not elected as a member of the Central Committee at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. As the director of the Central Policy Research Office did not join the Central Committee, this arrangement sent an unusual political signal to the outside world.
Cai Shenkun revealed that Jiang Jinquan's wife used Jiang Jinquan's influence to amass money everywhere and offended many people. He believed that the reasons behind the measures taken against Jiang Jinquan such as confiscation of his home were very complicated. They were not simply related to personal issues, but were related to the power game among the top leaders of the CCP.
"New Heights", a Chinese current affairs media based in New York, USA, published an article on X on July 23, pointing out that Jiang Jinquan is a typical opportunistic scholar and Wang Huning's hand-picked successor. Xi Jinping's "two establishments" and "two safeguards" were concocted. The author was also the actual final reviewer of Xi Jinping's various books and important speeches; the article also stated that Jiang Jinquan's downfall this time was due to the revelation of another identity: he was a hidden chess piece placed by Wang Qishan next to Xi Jinping before his retirement.
However, the authenticity of the above information cannot be confirmed. Public information shows that Jiang Jinquan is 67 years old, and Wang Huning served as director of the Policy Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for 18 years from October 2002 to October 2020. During this period, Jiang Jinquan has been serving as Wang Huning's subordinate; in April 2013, he was promoted to deputy director of the Central Policy Research Office, leader of the secretarial team of the Central Party Building Leading Group, and served as Wang Huning's deputy; in October 2020, he succeeded Wang Huning as director of the Central Policy Research Office and became the "chief think tank." However, he was unexpectedly not appointed as a member of the Central Committee at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
