Xi Jinping personally orchestrated Tong Liya and Shen Haixiong's marriage termination? Peng Liyuan is stunned: Xi Jinping, Ma Xingrui, Shen Haixiong, who is Tong Liya's ultimate backer? (#Old Beijing Teahouse /Episode 1697/07/26/2026)
The video revolves around Tong Liya's appearance on the main stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2020, and the events at the end of 2021 concerning rumors of her remarriage to Shen Haixiong, followed by deletion, reporting to the police, and administrative detention. It compares the timelines and resumes of Ma Xingrui, Shen Haixiong, and Cai Fuchao, and relays multiple unverified online revelations, discussing related resource changes and information control phenomena.
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Sometimes, one feels that the most formidable post-50s generation on Earth, who can carry 200 jin of wheat on a mountain road without changing shoulders, is truly in command of everything in the Party-state, north, south, east, west, center, Party, government, military, people, and academia. If you don't ponder it carefully, who would believe it?
General Secretary Xi Jinping, 20 years ago in 2006, already charted the course for the big gossip linking the Party-state's political and entertainment circles 20 years later in 2026. What direction? Twelve characters float down from the sky: Inexplicable, Creating Something from Nothing, Turning Stone into Gold.
The General Secretary's baton was procured from the Yiwu Small Commodity Market. Don't believe it? Look here, anyone disagree? Disagreement will be punished with 100 push-ups. No, let's take a poll first.
How do you think Xi Baozi's twelve-character summary evaluating the economic achievements of Yiwu came about? Options: 1. Spoke nonsense carelessly; 2. The secretary prepared a fresh baozi for him, and it went wrong; 3. Misread the little red book, and the Party media went along with it; 4. Anything is possible. Quickly type the number in the comment section.
Alright, let's get to the main topic. In the year of the Red Horse and Red Sheep 2026, former CCTV popular female host Li Sisi, film, dance, and hosting multi-talented star Tong Liya, Xi Jinping's henchman and Xinjiang's powerful regional leader Ma Xingrui, former Deputy Minister of the Central Propaganda Department Cai Fuchao, and current Deputy Minister of the Central Propaganda Department Shen Haixiong, how did these five individuals get stirred up like a pot of stew by Old Xi, leading to such a tangled mess?
And how did the big boss behind Tong Liya suddenly transform from the pseudo-uncle Ma Xingrui to Shen Haixiong, who is still shining brightly in his current position? Today, Li Zheng will meticulously unravel this for you, so you can have a good sniff of this big gossip. Only sniffing, no eating, it's poisonous.
On July 15, 2026, a sentence suddenly appeared on the homepages of major official media outlets in a certain Eastern country, a sentence structure typical of the highest echelons of the Party-state: Cai Fuchao, former Deputy Minister of the Central Propaganda Department and former Party Secretary and Director of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, is under disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission for suspected serious violations of discipline and law.
In plain language, this high-ranking official of the Central Propaganda Department, who lorded over the intelligence of the Chinese people – Old Master Cai – has been invited for tea, detained, and is now facing the full treatment of internal Party discipline.
From Xinhua News Agency, CNR, to Guancha.cn, media outlets at home and abroad reported almost simultaneously. It should be noted that Cai Fuchao, born in 1951, began overseeing radio and television affairs in 2011, served as the director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television from 2013 to 2016, and had already faded from the front lines by 2018, being a standard "retired old cadre." He had been retired for a full eight years, long gone, and suddenly he's reported across the entire internet. The rhythm of this is understood by those who understand; he's been fished out by the ladle of anti-corruption. If there isn't enough to scoop from the surface, they'll stir the bottom of the pot.
When a former ministerial-level official, who had been retired for eight years, falls, readers usually skim past the title and move on. But this time, the news went viral on entertainment forums and Weibo super topics, inexplicably breaking out of its usual circles. How about that? The twelve-character guideline directed by the General Secretary is also inexplicable, isn't it?
What's strange about it? He is the father-in-law of Li Sisi, the former "number one sister" of CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, and a veteran leader in the radio and television system. His daughter-in-law is a star host of the Spring Festival Gala. This connection conveniently lumps "political anti-corruption" and "entertainment gossip" together, making this a mixed-flavor melon.
With this mixture, an old issue that has been buried for six years is brought up again. Who is Li Sisi? She is a national face of the Spring Festival Gala. From 2011 to 2019, for nearly a decade, she was one of the most stable female hosts on the Spring Festival Gala stage. So stable that audiences assumed she would stand there forever, like ancient heroic statues, her smile forever frozen, with only the skin on her face being pulled tighter.
But the audience thought too much. In the 2020 Spring Festival Gala, Li Sisi disappeared directly from the main venue without even a chance to say goodbye. Her position was taken by Nigmaiti, partnered with Tong Liya, a crossover dancer and film actress who had never hosted a major gala before.
I must add some context. In the circles of the "Big Pants" (CCTV headquarters), the position of host for the main venue of the Spring Festival Gala is equivalent in value to being a starter for the national team. Many CCTV-trained hosts have spent half their lives just to stand on that red carpet on New Year's Eve and shout with all their might, "Dear friends across the nation."
This is not just a job; it's a form of identity certification within the system, complete with its own halo. Who gets on and who gets off, who partners with whom, has never just been a "work arrangement." Behind it lies a grand strategy involving seniority, connections, and platforms.
How intense is the internal seniority ranking in this regard? Let me put it this way: those who can appear on the main stage must be the select few who have worked their way up within the station and have impeccable resumes. So you can understand how unconventional and out of the blue this personnel change in 2020 was.
On one hand, Li Sisi, who had hosted the main venue for nearly a decade, quietly exited; on the other hand, an outsider actress, who had to learn the rehearsal process on the fly, stepped directly into the center position. It's like the national team roster is announced, the starting defender is gone, and a replacement who usually plays in amateur leagues is brought in. BUT, it's the newcomer who gets to start directly this time, so it's no wonder the fans are in an uproar.
Everyone in and out of the circle had to ask: Tong Liya's Spring Festival Gala golden microphone, appearing out of nowhere, turning lead into gold, on what basis? Tong Liya was forcefully put on display by a powerful figure behind her, right in the faces of the national television audience who were enjoying the show and laughing.
The ensuing questions echoed in the wind: If Li Sisi was backed by her father-in-law, Cai Fuchao, a former ministerial-level official, then what force pushed Li Sisi out of the main venue in 2020 and promoted a crossover actress? Who was behind Tong Liya?
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Okay, let's continue the story. To investigate "Who is behind Tong Liya?", the first step is not to add people, but to remove them, to take down the male protagonist who has been circulating for many years.
Some time ago, it was widely speculated online that Tong Liya's benefactor, one of the "Four Beauties of Xinjiang," was Ma Xingrui, the top leader and Party Secretary of Xinjiang. This is a classic script of "a local big shot looking out for a fellow provincial female celebrity." A real estate female celebrity from Xinjiang and a powerful official governing Xinjiang – it's almost as if they could be related.
Facts also seemed to provide corroboration: after Ma Xingrui was officially announced to be expelled from the party and dismissed from public office, Tong Liya suddenly became a hot topic on the trending searches. However, the clue that Li Zheng is telling you today shows signs of a break.
Why? Someone thoughtfully took out their calendar and flipped through it. After flipping, they found that some aspects of the information chain didn't quite add up.
According to domestic party media news and overseas media such as Voice of America, Ma Xingrui only took over from Chen Quanguo as the Party Secretary of Xinjiang on December 25, 2021. Before that, he was in Guangdong, having served as Secretary of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and Governor of Guangdong Province, with no connection to Xinjiang whatsoever.
Looking at Tong Liya, the period when her career truly took off and she received that batch of 'super-standard' resources was from 2018 to 2020, a full three years before Ma Xingrui arrived in Xinjiang. Even before 2022, Tong Liya's career was doing well, but the overlapping time was still a bit short.
Someone who only took office in Xinjiang at the end of 2021 cannot possibly travel back in time to 2020 to arrange the Spring Festival Gala for others. The cause has come after the effect, which is logically prone to immediate execution by death sentence.
Of course, Tong Liya, one of the four beauties of Xinjiang, is no longer just Xinjiang's after becoming famous, and this is common knowledge. She is a nationally renowned superstar, and like other actresses, she has the opportunity to be favored and supported by various powerful figures of the party-state.
From this perspective, the possibility of being supported by Old Ma cannot be entirely ruled out. It's just that the connection to Xinjiang is not very strong, so the connection to Ma Xingrui is at least likely to be severely broken. Cut the Gordian knot and remove Ma Xingrui from the list of top supporters.
Then, a dramatic change occurred. On July 16, 2026, the day after Cai Fuchao was apprehended, a self-media account called 'Financial City Beast' quietly published an article, which caused a thunderclap – an explosion.
What did the Beast say? It immediately delivered a verdict: Seeing so many people asking what happened to Tong Liya, but no one can explain clearly, I will tell you all today. Good heavens, the demeanor of a chief examiner for the college entrance examination.
The Beast said that in Tong Liya's list of relationships, there should have been an ex-husband. In 2018, when Tong Liya performed the opening dance at the Spring Festival Gala, she caught the eye of Shen Haixiong, the 'Number One Brother of CCTV'. To pursue her, in 2019, Shen Haixiong specially arranged a program for Tong Liya called 'Walking on the Road Home', which told the story of Tong Liya's life, treated as if she were a deceased old proletarian revolutionary.
After this, at the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China gala, Tong Liya was the only non-CCTV host, and she hosted many small segments.
In 2020, in order to promote her to be a host of the Spring Festival Gala, Shen Haixiong secretly kicked Li Sisi, a long-time host of the Spring Festival Gala, under the table. Li Sisi is the daughter-in-law of Cai Fuchao, who was just arrested.
At this point, the relationship between her husband Chen Sicheng and Tong Liya had already broken down, and they were living separately. Chen Sicheng, as her husband, had no major conflicts with his wife; they had a good relationship. Because a high-ranking leader intervened, he had to reluctantly give her up. So he felt wronged and couldn't afford to offend Shen Haixiong.
Chen Sicheng endured it until the end of 2021. More than half a year after divorcing Tong Liya, he couldn't hold back anymore. Wanting to vent his anger, he found someone to write a 'small essay' to spread rumors and expose the matter. He thought he could contribute to the party-state's anti-corruption efforts and defeat his love rival, but he thought too much.
The price was also extremely heavy. The few people who wrote the 'small essay' were sentenced to real prison terms. The authorities, out of consideration for Tong Liya, let Chen Sicheng off the hook. However, he didn't get off easy. According to the case handler, Chen Sicheng was beaten to the point of losing control of his bowels and urine.
Wait a minute, such a sensational scandal, could it be made up? Why haven't I heard of Li Zheng? I quickly checked Wikipedia, and my jaw dropped.
Wikipedia states that in December 2021, Hong Kong's 'Ming Pao' quoted sources in Beijing as saying that Shen Haixiong had remarried actress Tong Liya. Tong Liya denied this and reported the rumor to the police.
On December 29, 2021, three individuals who fabricated and spread scandalous information about Tong Liya for the purpose of boasting and showing off were administratively detained by the Haidian police in Beijing.
See? What Financial City Beast said is true. They really wrote a 'small essay' and were then beaten by the iron fist. The powerful figures of the state are deeply involved in the sensational drama of the entertainment industry, fighting like mad.
Despite all the commotion, this is about Shen Haixiong and one of the four beauties of Xinjiang. The antenna is about to smoke, let's buffer.
The Beast continued, it is said that later General Secretary Xi Jinping learned of this matter and criticized Shen Haixiong, sternly pointing out that Tong Liya was not worthy of being the official wife of a party and state leader. Therefore, although they had indeed registered their marriage, they divorced hastily due to Xi Jinping's criticism, and all marriage and divorce records were deleted from the system.
Thus, Tong Liya was played with for about three to four years, and the 'Number One Brother of CCTV' got tired of her and was directly replaced. The exposé by Financial City Beast ends here.
So how to judge, real or fake? We still need to check the timeline. Beast reports say that Shen Haixiong's personal pursuit was the reason Tong Liya obtained a large amount of CCTV resources, and the two later registered their marriage, and then urgently divorced.
Although marriage certificates and divorce certificates cannot be produced, this twisty timeline is indeed highly consistent with Tong Liya's continuous acquisition of important CCTV resources starting in 2018, the sudden explosion of rumors at the end of 2021, and the rapid loss of resources.
So what is the truth? Another bombshell revelation enters our sight. "Exposing Shen Haixiong, the Inheritance of Political Science of Lust," the article unfolds as follows.
In 2020, before Shen Haixiong was promoted to the Propaganda Department of the CCP Central Committee after the Two Sessions in March 2025, he was already a deputy minister.
Shen Haixiong's name is familiar, and he borrowed the influence of the suddenly popular Xibe ethnic host of the Spring Festival Gala, movie star "Tong Liya." Rumors were rampant that Tong Liya's success was crucially linked to her relationship with Shen Haixiong.
Some even rumored that Baozi (Xi Jinping) broke up Tong Liya and Shen Haixiong because Tong Liya (misspoke) was actually an imperial concubine, Baozi's favorite, and Shen Haixiong was merely holding her on behalf of the emperor. As a result, the buddy got too deep into the role and treated it as real, getting married. Baozi was almost angered to stroke, so he reprimanded Xiao Shen: Your adrenaline is too high, you have ulterior motives, and you must immediately cut ties with Xiao Tong.
According to the revelations, these rumors are concretely corroborated in cadre personnel files and household registration data. He saw that since 2021, cadre resumes and appointment and removal forms show that Tong Liya was not only Shen Haixiong's recorded spouse but also introduced and certified by organizational leaders.
Before that, Shen Haixiong's wife could not bear his debauchery and jumped to her death. How peaceful.
What's going on? It turns out that Shen Haixiong, as the deputy minister of the Propaganda Department of the CCP Central Committee, is in charge of the film and television entertainment industry, and a large number of women are flocking to him and the organization.
At the same time, Shen Haixiong used his position to operate Tong Liya's
Later, this young man was transferred to Quzhou. For reasons unknown, he died in the line of duty under mysterious circumstances at the age of 31. Shen Haixiong, however, always put his name on this article, to the extent that the CCP propaganda machine still uses it as Shen Haixiong's achievement, claiming that "a certain Mr. Shen, inadvertently pushed Zhejiang's agricultural tax reform nationwide," which was completely tailor-made to flatter him.
As for the real Shen Haixiong, during his tenure at the Zhejiang branch, it is said that he not only participated in gambling and prostitution but also used his position to sexually assault female reporters, causing one to have an abortion. After the "Project Hope" program was launched, he took the opportunity to visit the poor and support education, but instead sexually assaulted impoverished female students, arranging jobs for them after the incidents became public.
Shen Haixiong has a long history of scandalous and extremely chaotic relationships with women, showing no regard for consequences. It was these scandals that led his first wife to fall into depression and despair, unable to bear the humiliation, and commit suicide by jumping from a building.
Having said so much, I am completely confused. I solemnly declare that Li Zheng is merely sharing online revelations and cannot verify their truthfulness. We must admit that given the inherent sensitivity and secrecy of the CCP political arena, as well as the severity of censorship, revelations involving high-level secrets can only be relayed, and it is impossible to judge their complete accuracy.
When all matters related to officialdom are completely suppressed, and when all parties involved cannot speak freely, the information vacuum will naturally be filled with all sorts of narratives. This may include serious investigations and rational sorting, but it also may include imaginative fabrications or the integration of popular rumors.
Having told the story, which parts are true? Let's summarize.
First, Shen Haixiong's resume. According to official reports from Xinhua, People's Daily, and CNR.com in 2018, Shen Haixiong was born in 1967, graduated from the journalism department of Hangzhou University, and started as a reporter at the Zhejiang branch of Xinhua News Agency. He worked his way up to senior reporter and branch leadership, later moving into propaganda. In 2015, he became a member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Deputy Minister of Propaganda.
In 2018, China underwent a major reform, merging CCTV, CNR, and CRI to form the China Media Group. In March of that year, Shen Haixiong was appointed as the first Director and Party Secretary of the CMG. In other words, from 2018 onwards, the CCP's core official mouthpiece machine was under Shen Haixiong's control.
The second thing that can be confirmed is Tong Liya's "cross-border" trajectory at CCTV. In 2020, she appeared on the Spring Festival Gala main stage for the first time, becoming one of the rare hosts without a CCTV staff编制 to appear on the main stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
And then there is the third, and most dramatic part: the storm in December 2021.
In late December 2021, rumors about Tong Liya's "remarriage" to a high-ranking official in the media system exploded online. As soon as the rumors surfaced, the reaction within the Great Firewall was astonishingly fast. Because the identities of the people involved were sensitive, keywords like "Tong Liya remarries" quickly became sensitive terms on Weibo, and related posts were deleted in batches.
The deletion method was not like handling entertainment gossip, but more like defusing a time bomb. The force involved was not something an ordinary person's influence could achieve. Instead, Tong Liya's response seemed overly strong, denying it and even calling the police.
The topic of "Tong Liya calling the police" was not deleted, and its views continued to climb, reaching hundreds of millions or even billions of clicks. This scale was considered phenomenal even for Weibo's trending topics that year.
Immediately after, the Beijing police acted swiftly, and three individuals suspected of fabricating and disseminating false information were administratively detained. Tong Liya's studio also issued a statement reiterating her status as "divorced and single" and emphasizing that she had not engaged in any improper behavior.
When you look at these actions together, they far exceed the scope of an ordinary celebrity scandal. These abnormal actions were fully documented by overseas media such as the South China Morning Post, Taiwan News, and China Digital Times.
Thus, a truly intriguing reversal emerged. The period from 2018 to 2020, when Tong Liya received a large amount of top CCTV resources, highly overlapped with the period when Shen Haixiong was in charge of the CMG; and at the end of 2021, when rumors of marriage and divorce broke out, an unusually strong information cleanup immediately occurred. Who had this power?
So, let's conduct a poll. Tea friends, how credible do you find the news revealed about this sensational public case involving Tong Liya, Shen Haixiong, and even Xi Jinping? Choose from the following options: A, baseless speculation; B, traceable; C, better to remain ignorant. Please quickly type your letter in the comment section.
A few words of reflection. Truth and rumors are often sealed in the same black box. Under the CCP's totalitarian system, the fate of stars and popular artists is often not entirely in their own hands. Today she can stand on the highest-level stage, tomorrow her resources are withdrawn, *snap*, she's instantly purged. When things are going well, she's the face; when things go south, she becomes a trace to be erased.
This is the unique style of the evil Communist Party, which claims everything for the collective – "common property, common wives." That's all for today.
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