Thirteen Years of Xi Jinping's Ragtag Cabinet, the Consequences Are Now Emerging in Rapid Succession. True China

In this episode of "Real China," host Hu Liren criticized Xi Jinping for building an incompetent "amateur team" lacking governance capability over the thirteen years since he came to power, leading to frequent disasters across China. Taking the fire accident at a shoe factory in Jinjiang, Quanzhou, Fujian as an example, he pointed out that this was a preventable disaster and deeply analyzed the widespread environmental protection and fire safety issues in Chinese enterprises. The host detailed how enterprises turn off environmental protection equipment to cope with inspections, and how officials accept bribes leading to environmental pollution and water quality deterioration. Citing Jiulong Paper's pollution of the Yangtze River as an example, he revealed the current situation where local governments ignore environmental protection in pursuit of economic growth, and mentioned the grim problems of rising cancer incidence rates and declining average life expectancy in China. The host believes that Xi Jinping's governance methods have rendered government departments nominal, disasters are everywhere in the country, and his governance has planted countless "time bombs" in Chinese society, which are now entering a period of eruption. He criticized the State Council led by Li Qiang for only focusing on studying Xi Jinping Thought while no one truly manages the national economy or solves practical problems, predicting that "if Xi does not fall, this country will perish."

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Hello everyone! Let's talk more. Look at this, just now I was talking about the Jinjiang shoe factory in Quanzhou, Fujian, where twenty-eight people were burned to death. Look, Xi Jinping has started making important instructions again. Everyone look, Xi Jinping made important instructions regarding the Jinjiang shoe factory.

Look, making important instructions, Xi Jinping, he is like this now, hiding in Zhongnanhai all day long, doing no proper business, failing to govern a fine country properly, and ignoring the life and death of the ordinary people. What does he manage? What he manages is his own power, internal struggles—you fight me, I fight you, the Chinese Communist Party has always been like this, the Mao era was like this. Ultimately, this leads to continuous disasters throughout the country. I have always said, ever since Xi Jinping came to power, I said that what he has built now is an amateur team. Look at the people he is using now, they are all village-official level people, completely lacking the ability to govern this country, completely lacking ability.

Look at these people, the people around him, it's like this: Xi Jinping himself has very poor capabilities, but his political awareness is very high—when it comes to playing people, he is first-class. He is exactly the same as the leaders of state-owned enterprises in the past. I used to work in a state-owned enterprise in the 1980s, and those people were like that. If you asked them to talk about the economy or corporate management, they didn't understand anything. But what could they do? Flattery, bootlicking, and managing interpersonal relationships. That kind of person can grasp all sorts of relationships between people. He can go around bootlicking, and maybe you are working hard every day, doing a good job, and achieving results, but your work achievements are useless. He might just go somewhere to give a gift, pull some strings, or file a malicious report, and suddenly he gets promoted to a leadership position in some unit.

Xi Jinping is exactly that kind of person, exactly that kind of person. Look, now all over China, it's not just mine disasters, he is afraid of all kinds of disasters. Oh, this time twenty-eight people died in Jinjiang again. These disasters—I used to work in corporate management—should have been prevented long ago. For example, fire safety, right? This group of people should be constantly visiting enterprises, offering advice, and solving problems as soon as they are discovered. What has China become now? It has become a place where, as long as you pay the officials, anything goes. Think about it, when I was in China, I encountered many enterprises. The leaders of those enterprises would tell me, for example—let me give you an example—ventilation equipment or environmental protection equipment. I encountered many enterprises in China that were like this: when the enterprise was being built, it had environmental protection equipment, and it was all produced. It had to follow these environmental standards to operate. Fine, at the beginning, they had all the environmental equipment, but during the entire operation of the company and the factory, these environmental devices were never used; they were all turned off, not used at all, and everything was discharged directly. So, look at why so many people in China get cancer, why so much air is polluted, and why the water quality is polluted. On the surface, there are all kinds of rules and regulations that can constrain you, but in the entire execution process, the grassroots level is extremely corrupt. They don't turn them on usually, but when the environmental protection bureau is about to come for an inspection, they make a phone call in advance. The director of the environmental protection bureau calls and says to the subordinates, 'Hey, which unit are you going to? We are going to inspect tomorrow.' Just that one sentence, and people know you are coming the next day, right? 'You are coming at 10:00 AM, right?' They start them up at 8:00 AM, and the whole system is turned on. Then you look and say, 'Wow, why is this enterprise so good? The environmental equipment is all turned on, and everything meets the standards, excellent.' After these red envelopes are collected and these people have finished eating—the enterprise treats them to a meal, right?—after they finish eating and leave, all the environmental equipment is turned off again. Why turn off the environmental equipment? Because if you turn on the environmental equipment, you have to pay a large amount of money every year. The operation of the environmental equipment requires electricity and consumables. Every year, the cost for the whole set of environmental equipment might add up to tens of millions. Many enterprises in China operate twenty-four hours a day. If they save those tens of millions, they can just spend a few million to bribe the leaders of the environmental protection bureau, right?

It is useless; even if the people below file complaints, it is useless. These people in the Environmental Protection Bureau, they know where their money comes from. Their money comes from these very places. What is ultimately harmed? What is ultimately harmed is the interests of the common people across the country. For the common people, your air is getting worse and worse, and the water quality is getting worse and worse. I have encountered many enterprises in China. For example, how do they use water? They take water directly from, say, a river, and they have their own purification system. After the river water comes in and is purified and used, it is discharged directly back into the river. The sewage is discharged directly without any treatment, or with only the simplest form of treatment, straight into the river. Therefore, many rivers in China now are full of chemical water. You tell me, what food is still good to eat? Take the Yangtze River, for example; the entire Yangtze River is almost completely polluted. I once surveyed the entire Yangtze River basin. Starting from Changshou in Chongqing, where Sinopec, CNPC, and CNOOC all have projects—large-scale projects are there—they start discharging directly into the Yangtze. All the way down through Hubei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Anhui, the entire Yangtze River bank is full of chemical plants.

You think about Shanghai? I am from Shanghai. In Shanghai, I have always said that this place, Shanghai, is no longer livable. Shanghai built a drinking water base called Qingcaosha, I think, near Changxing Island, or Chongming Island. You think that by building a drinking water base there, they can lie to the people of Shanghai, saying our water is now very, very clean, flowing down from that place. It is all chemical water, dirty water. In Changshu, there is a company called Nine Dragons Paper, the largest paper company, and the boss is a woman who was once the richest person in China. Right there—if you trace back from Shanghai, go against the flow of the Yangtze for about a few dozen kilometers—in Taicang, Changshu, there is Nine Dragons Paper. Everyone can look it up online. That factory, that enterprise, within those hundreds of acres of land, is all involved in paper production. Do you know what the concept of paper production is? It all requires chemical reagents to turn paper into pulp, to turn wood into pulp; it is all chemical. These things are all discharged directly into the Yangtze River, all discharged into the Yangtze. You know, this Nine Dragons Paper was originally in Guangdong. In Guangdong, because the pollution was too severe, they moved to that place, they moved to Suzhou. Look at Suzhou, the economy is so good, but the government in Suzhou is very rotten; a large amount of chemical products are there. They don't care; as long as the economy is good, they don't care about you. Managing the environment, all of this, they don't care at all. Right there, Nine Dragons Paper is endless. Just one Nine Dragons Paper, how many people will it poison to death! Constantly discharging directly. I went there; I personally experienced it. I went to this company, Nine Dragons Paper, and I was dumbfounded when I saw it. I didn't realize the Yangtze was so big, and there was such a huge enterprise right above Shanghai polluting the Yangtze!

You think about how many people? So later I was thinking, I once said, when I left China in 2018, six of my classmates had died, seven classmates had died, and six of them were from cancer. You think about it, from the first one who died, a very good classmate of mine, died at 42, died of kidney cancer; this is not normal. Now the whole country, to what extent has China reached? To the point where, young people, everyone can check online. Now many people, many people are exposing it; the average life expectancy in China is only sixty-something, sixty-seven years old. It is getting lower and lower now. What are these? These are all management problems, all management problems. Now, this amateurish team of Xi Jinping, where do they have any management? The whole country is full of disasters everywhere. Now, these ten-plus years of Xi Jinping have buried, continuously buried all kinds of mines for the entire Chinese society. Now it has entered an explosive period, it has entered an explosive period, and no one is in charge.

After Xi Jinping came to power, this Li Qiang, you know, in the State Council, studied the highest instructions and quotations of Xi Jinping every day. As long as Xi Jinping said a few words or farted, he would take it, and then began in the State Council, the State Council began to mobilize everyone to study together. Is anyone managing the economy? Absolutely no one is managing the economy! No one is managing this country, and government departments are a mere formality. Current government departments only care about collecting money; if you have money, you can buy anyone off. Take environmental protection and fire safety, for example, they are all full of massive loopholes, massive loopholes. Now, this country has just become like this. Look, after a while, they are going to start with the highest instructions again. Xi Jinping has always been like this frequently; as long as there is a major accident outside, there are highest instructions and important directives. Xi Jinping sits at home every day issuing instructions, issuing important directives right there in Zhongnanhai. As for those below, he doesn't care; why would he care? Look at Li Qiang, he manages the entire State Council, and has been managing it for so many years. Yet so many problems have emerged in this country, does Li Qiang bear any responsibility? What responsibility does he have? As long as he praises Xi Jinping well, studies Xi Jinping's thought well, and makes everyone listen to Xi's Thought, this guy can be Premier forever. Oh, what a disaster! Look, everyone go online and check it out! Look, important directives, importantly making important ones. All you see is bragging, just bragging. As for this, Xi won't fall, Xi won't fall, Xi has already brought profound disaster to this country. If Xi doesn't fall, this country is doomed, it's finished, and a vast number of ordinary people are going to suffer. Alright, let's end this topic here, thank you all for watching, we will see you next...