Jiang Feng Moment: When Wen Jiabao Meets Peng Liyuan: Rare Earth Smuggling Japan Explodes, Who Is Investigating Xi’s Last Escape Route? [Jiang Feng Vision 20260624 Episode 418]

Two Japanese employees working at the China branches of major Japanese heavy electrical machinery giants were caught red-handed at Dalian Customs, suspected of concealing dysprosium and terbium—heavy rare earths used in high-end military applications—inside large machinery to smuggle them out of the country.

Zhu Zisong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and former party chief of the Pudong New Area, was tried in another jurisdiction in Nanchang. He was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in the first instance, convicted of accepting bribes totaling 139 million yuan, with his criminal origins traced back to his tenure at the Eighth Academy of Aerospace in 2003.

The NPC Standing Committee is conducting an urgent first review of three draft laws: the Financial Law, the Government Procurement Law, and the Bidding and Tendering Law, with the core promotion of retroactive checks on major capital flows and a lifelong accountability mechanism.

Bian Zhigang, member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, is suspected of serious disciplinary violations and violations of the law, and has been officially announced to be under investigation.