Why did Xi Jinping target Liu Yandong after her retirement?

In this program, Hu Liren combines his personal experience working at Li Ka-shing's company, Tom, over twenty years ago to disclose the inside story of how former CCP United Front Work Department head and Vice Premier Liu Yandong and her family held massive shares in Hong Kong-listed enterprises. The program further explores the current status of Tuanpai (Youth League faction) officials under political purges, the background of Liu Yandong's passing, and the plight of Tuanpai members.

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Hello, audience friends! Let me greet everyone first! Just now, in the previous video, there might have been some friction between my microphone and my collar; I forgot to zip it up, which caused some noise. It had nothing to do with the system; it was just a sound issue caused by physical friction. I apologize to everyone. I will be more careful from now on! Let me talk to you about Liu Yandong. Do you know why I know about Liu Yandong? Do you know? I knew about Liu Yandong over twenty years ago.

Over twenty years ago, Liu Yandong's son-in-law was my colleague. Yes, we were at the same company, and we were both in senior management. Her son-in-law, named Feng Qi, went to Canada very early on. Do you remember the connection? I have mentioned before that I worked at Tom, which is Li Ka-shing's company. Li Ka-shing's company, Tom, went public in Hong Kong in 1999 and 2000. After going public, it invested in a Shanghai project called Meiya Online. I was once the Executive Vice President of Meiya Online; that is the connection. Liu Yandong... Liu Yandong's son-in-law was at Tom, right there at Tom.

Everyone needs to know that at that time, Liu Yandong's son-in-law was actually their shareholder. CCP officials... let me tell you, once I lay out these stories and these things, you will understand. CCP officials—Liu Yandong, who you might see as someone who just worked in United Front work—she was originally in United Front work. She was in the United Front. In 2000, she was the Deputy Head of the CCP United Front Work Department, but she held a ministerial-level rank at the time. This Liu Yandong actually had some intersections with me. I have mentioned before that I had a business partner, a big shot in the CCP United Front Work Department. At the time, externally, he was the president of a cultural exchange association, some World Cultural Exchange Association, which was, of course, on the CCP side. His name was He Xintong, a second-generation red; he grew up in He Long's household. Liu Yandong and He Xintong were very close; their relationship was very, very good. However, I never met Liu Yandong personally. I have met many of these second-generation red officials while with He Xintong back then.

You know how many hundreds of millions of dollars Liu Yandong's family had in Tom back then, right? Their entire assets at the time of Tom's listing were probably over three hundred million, close to four hundred million. I remember Feng Qi had probably over forty million shares in Tom at that time. Just think, more than forty million shares belonged to Liu Yandong's son-in-law, Liu Yandong's son-in-law. At that time, they had just gotten married. In fact, Tom—well, many CCP officials' assets were registered under Li Ka-shing's name. Tom belongs to Li Ka-shing, right? Li Ka-shing's confidante, right? Tom is Solina Chau, right? She used to be my boss, Solina Chau. Look, if you connect all these things together, you will know how rich the CCP is. Back in 2000, how many shares and how many assets had Liu Yandong already acquired through Tom? Over four hundred million Hong Kong dollars, right? Over three hundred million Hong Kong dollars, forty-plus-million, forty-plus-million, forty-plus-million shares. At the time of the listing, I remember it was over seven dollars. Over seven dollars, and—and at that time, probably the closing price on that day seemed to be nine point five, over nine dollars. So, you see, at that time, in fact, these CCP officials were already very wealthy, very wealthy. Liu Yandong's daughter and son-in-law are Canadian citizens, Canadian, her daughter is named Yang Fan, Yang Fan like setting sail. Ah, her daughter, her son-in-law later both lived in Canada, occasionally returning to Beijing, returning to Beijing on business jets, all these people, all these Communist Party people, later made a huge fortune. Her son-in-law seemed to also have shares in NetEase at the time, ah, he had shares when NetEase went public. Her son-in-law originally worked in internet tech, and was—uh, probably a bit younger than me in age. These people all have backgrounds behind them, all have backgrounds of high-ranking CCP officials, all have backgrounds of high-ranking CCP officials.

So, if you spread these things out, separate them, and peel them back, you will know what kind of trash the CCP is. The ordinary people are their shield, their servants, their slaves, and all these Communist Party officials, their families, their entire families are. Uh, Liu Yandong only has one daughter, only has one daughter. At that time, because these people, maybe at the time, probably were about to climb up, about to climb up. Maybe they usually gave birth to fewer children. Since they are officials themselves, giving birth also takes time, right? You have to be pregnant for ten months, you have to spend time. Then how could these people have so much time? They didn't have that much time. Liu Yandong kept climbing up, kept climbing up, right? She belongs to the Youth League faction, and later after 2000, after 2000, later after Hu Jintao came to power, she soared directly, soared directly. Ah, she has a very good relationship with Hu Jintao, um.

At that time, I seem to remember that Hu Jintao promoted two women, two women, one was Liu Yandong, since Liu Yandong was high up, and the other was Shen Yueyue, right? It was like that. Um, as for Liu Yandong now, Liu Yandong thought she had safely retired, that she could land safely, and she also served Xi Jinping. She also did things for Xi Jinping, ultimately landing safely during Xi Jinping's term. She thought it would be like that, but she didn't expect to get dragged right into it. This is, I think she herself must have known, must have known. That is, after Li Keqiang had an accident back then, I think their understanding and awareness of the Communist Party, due to these internal pieces of information, were much more than ours, much more than ours.

So at that time, she—actually Liu Yandong's final days were not easy, not easy at all. You say she wanted to oppose Xi, opposing this kind of thing was probably almost rare. The later Liu Yandong was actually sacrificed for the CCP; she no longer had any choices of her own. In the CCP, it is always like this. As long as you become a person of the CCP, your whole life in the future, straight until death, your whole life is unsafe. Do you know who is going to have an accident next? Hu Jintao is very likely, look, Hu Jintao is very likely Hu Jintao is about to issue—going to—going to—going to—going to issue this news, going to issue a notice. Ah, Hu Jintao's days are not far off either, ah, these are all people of the Youth League faction. Now Xi Jinping, I'm talking about Xi Jinping, it's impossible. Look at Hu Jintao's current situation, it's also impossible to drag him into prison, to denounce him into prison, that looks too ugly. The CCP, right? So how to handle it? They will find a way to make him leave this world early.

Look at the present, look at these people of the Communist Youth League faction, these people of the Youth League faction, almost all of them, look, have experienced normal retirement, I mean, they have all actually just retired. Now, the people in power under Xi Jinping are all his own people, all his own people, ah. Hu Jintao, well, was taken away from the venue, hauled away, dragged away, right? This happened under the gaze of everyone, under the cameras of the entire world. Ah, Liu Yandong, well, Liu Yandong actually—I calculated—Liu Yandong is only eighty years old, exactly eighty years old, hasn't reached eighty-one yet, hasn't reached eighty-one, ah. In the Communist Party, like inside this Communist Party, for such a high-ranking official, Liu Yandong's health is very good. Look at Liu Yandong, her complexion is very good, it has always been quite a good complexion, ah, how many illnesses could she possibly have? She was suddenly got rid of, ah.

So, ah, as I am trying to understand through various channels what the situation of Liu Yandong's death, Liu Yandong's passing at that time was like, I still don't know now. Isn't the CCP tightening things up extremely right now? We still don't know, ah. I think her son-in-law should know, her daughter and son-in-law should know. Her daughter and son-in-law have long been in Canada, not in China. Later on, when things reached this kind of state, there was really nothing to be done, nobody dared to go back, ah. Liu Yandong's husband and wife had no choice, because they are high-ranking officials of the CCP, and it was impossible for them to just go over there and stay, so they just stayed put, effectively waiting to be executed. As for her daughter, the daughter and son-in-law, well, afterwards they just didn't return. What would be the point of going back? A whole lifetime, ah, the lifetime of high-ranking CCP officials just ends up like this.

Ah, right now the one having the hardest time is Hu Chunhua. Hu Chunhua's whereabouts are completely unknown now, people don't even know where he is. Ah, some people say he took the Presidium seat at this plenary session, while others say he hasn't vanished or something. The plenary session, I am telling everyone, the plenary session, ah, right now the mobile phones of everyone who went in are completely confiscated, and not a shred of information will be leaked. It won't be leaked. Some people tell you, you say the plenary session, and right now some people are leaking information, risking their lives to boast. I am telling you, I am telling everyone, that's just bragging, absolutely nothing, absolutely no information will ever come out. No, they are equivalent to being completely isolated, completely isolated. Ah, your communication equipment, the communication equipment of these people, I am letting everyone know, during the meetings of the plenary session, each of them gets a suite. You live in the suite, you as a member, a member of the Central Committee, live inside, and outside there are a few people accompanying you. The outer perimeter accompanies you twenty-four hours a day, so how could you possibly make a move, right? These officials of the plenary session don't even have the opportunity to jump from a building; the rooms are all sealed, the windows are all sealed, no way. These people now, these high-ranking officials of the CCP, these high-ranking officials of the CCP right now.

Their lives in this world are harder than death, harder to bear than death. Their pressure is extremely immense, extremely immense, and everyone is drawing a life-or-death lot. Now, looking at this meeting, a Hong Kong media outlet leaked that the total number should have been around 350 people originally, and now with 70 people removed, the entire meeting participants are probably around 280 people. 280 people is the total added together for Central Committee members plus alternate members, around 280 people attending the meeting. During the meeting, it is possible, it is even possible that during the meeting, some people might be taken down, some people might be taken down.

So, this is the current situation right now. Now that Liu Yandong has suddenly passed away, has been gotten rid of, I think that all the people of the Youth League faction are trembling with fear right now. Ah, actually they knew long ago, they knew long ago, knowing that their doom was coming, knowing that their doom was coming. Ah, it's very regrettable, very regrettable. These officials of the Communist Party, today I am telling everyone, can you understand? Look at a Minister of the United Front Work Department, she was originally Liu Yandong's Minister of the United Front Work Department, she was specifically in charge of Hong Kong and Macao affairs, these kinds of matters, overseas affairs, doing United Front work, right? That is, making contacts, back around the year 2000 when the CCP wanted the economy to be good, then she would find ways to frequently meet with someone like Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing today, and who to meet tomorrow? Then Li Ka-shing, people like that underneath would know, oh. You Yandong, how about this, let's set up a company and give you some shares, how do you see that? Look, the shares of Tom were directly given to her, given to her son-in-law. Her son-in-law, I have met him, met him several times, right? Although one was working in Shanghai and he was working in Hong Kong, ah, later on her son-in-law, after a few years, entered the board of directors, ah, I remember. After Zhou Kaixuan left the board, he entered the board, ah, entering the board along with another woman, ah.

You say that the common people of China were in deep water and scorching heat at that time, struggling and working hard to make money. The process from the 1990s to the 2000s was extremely painful; the lives of Chinese people were very bitter, right? Look at these high-ranking officials, just think about it, you could never imagine Liu Yandong's family—the Liu Yandong family had shares in Tom, with hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars in shares. And that was just one project, just one project. So, for a CCP official, you think, look, more than twenty years ago, they already had, just in one project alone, over 300 million, nearly 400 million, nearly 400 million Hong Kong dollars, if I remember correctly. They had nearly 400 million, just think, how many shares did they have in other companies? So, inside the CCP, look at the year 2000, and now, how many times has it multiplied? How many times has it increased, right? And back in 2000, people's wages, everyone's wages were very low, and then later it was completely different.

So, these people, actually, you see them fighting internally, one is gone, this one is taken down, that one is killed off, but in the end, it all has a causal relationship. These people all have a causal relationship. The best explanation is that for the CCP, these people are born for the CCP and die for the CCP, right? Because the CCP needs internal fighting, and these people are just the victims of that internal fighting, that's all. Liu Shaoqi was the same, exactly the same. Alright, I'll stop here for this topic. Thank you all for watching, and see you in the next episode.