Li Qiang, Ding Xuexiang and Xi Jinping Form a Trio? Beijing in a Terrifying Mood Before the Fifth Plenum! Zeng Qinghong Flees, Li Zhanshu in Trouble, Witness Comes Forward: Did Huang Qifan Once Traffic Organs Together with Bo and Wang? (Old Beijing Teahouse / Episode 1774 / 2026 / 10/15)

This episode mainly explores various rumors and inside stories in Chinese Communist Party (CCP) politics. It analyzes the deep-seated reasons behind the purge of retired official Huang Qifan and its connection to the forced organ harvesting inside stories during the Bo Xilai era. It points out that Beijing entered an unprecedented wartime security state on the eve of the Fifth Plenary Session, rolling out strict control measures. At the same time, it discusses rumors of high-level power struggles, including the movements of Li Qiang and Ding Xuexiang, the involvement of Li Zhanshu's daughter in corruption cases, and Zeng Qinghong's current situation.

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Speaking of the Red Horse and Red Sheep years, they are hard to guard against and bound to cause a crash. The falling from grace of officialdom's tumbler, Huang Qifan, hasn't that already left countless people jaw-dropped? Who would have thought that the next target to pick up Old Huang's relay baton would actually be Old Hu next door? Old Hu almost made me break my back in surprise—what kind of totally unrelated and shocking situation is this? Forget about being far-fetched; one blow hit right on Hu Xijin's bowl-cut forehead. That hard? In the past two days, an online essay discussing Huang Qifan being investigated went viral. What did it say? The author said that regarding Huang Qifan being investigated, many people were deeply shocked and felt it was unbelievable. In fact, there were warning signs long ago. What warning signs? A 74-year-old retired cadre who doesn't quietly enjoy his twilight years, just like Old Hu. Old Hu makes frequent public appearances, high-profile book releases, attends official events everywhere, and brushes his sense of presence far too frequently. Relying on his label as the mayor who understands the economy best, he was active in all kinds of high-end forums, lecturing and raking in cash everywhere, which at the very least violated the discipline and style he should have followed. What discipline and style? Once retired, one must keep a low profile and lay low; being retired but not pulling back is a danger. Danger! Thinking that because one is retired, anti-corruption investigations won't reach them, and they can go wild. This is a fluke mentality that needs attention! Who wrote this? This is a pretty serious reflection. The last sentence caused a laugh, so netizens winked frantically at each other, understanding tacitly and stating: we came just for that last sentence. Old Hu refused: no. Old Hu is very angry, Old Hu is very angry, because the consequences for him are very serious. His consequence is that if he can't keep his mouth shut, the fence-sitter hero's trouble will come from his own mouth.

A laugh a day keeps the old age away. To pick up where we left off, joking aside, Huang Qifan has a big mouth in the financial sector, talking everywhere, and his spotlight is by no means inferior to the little writer Hu Xijin. The key point is that Huang Qifan doesn't use AI to write his articles and speeches, is that wrong? Huang Qifan being taken down ten years after retirement made the Australian legal scholar Yuan Hongbing deeply emotional. Emotional about what? Yuan Fangming said that, in fact, Huang Qifan's corruption problem is nothing much, not really embezzlement and corruption, but rather the normal lifestyle of all officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The real harm is that Xi Jinping's anti-corruption is merely using corruption charges to deal with political dissidents, lifting the lid off the pot once again. Even for a cadre retired for ten years, as long as you still have some residual influence in certain fields, and Xi Jinping thinks you are not absolutely loyal to him, you will be purged. Moreover, Huang Qifan doesn't just have residual influence; his influence is quite large and his voice quite loud. That's right, the problem is that Xi Jinping has already dragged politics, economics, culture, and society in all aspects back to the planned economy era. Yet Huang Qifan was still promoting Zhu Rongji's set of elitist market economy. Old Xi considers this an intolerable betrayal of the so-called Xi Jinping Economic Thought. This is no longer just a matter of making improper discussions about the central authorities! It is entirely singing a different tune from the steamed bun, an active counter-revolutionary. Singing down the real estate economy of the party-state is a major crime. Didn't someone summarize ten political last words for Huang Qifan about the real estate game over? How so? Including population growth is gone, urbanization has slowed down, aging is severe, inventory and idle housing are causing trouble, per capita housing area is saturated, the scale of saturated built housing has exceeded the limit, massive demolition and construction are out of the game, without joint construction there is only patch-up work left, real estate enterprises' leverage has exploded, and the belief in the continuous rise of housing prices has shattered. Huang Qifan brings up every sore subject, ten silver needles piercing the heart one by one? Didn't current affairs commentator Cai Zhenkun say so? Huang Qifan's biggest problem is that for ten years after retirement, he kept yakking and refused to shut up, which is what infuriates Xi Jinping the most, because in 2022 the CCP Central Committee issued a policy stating that retired leading cadres must not make improper discussions about the central authorities. Although Huang Qifan doesn't talk about politics but only economics, but. In the Xi Jinping era, politics and economics are bundled together. Many economic data items, the CCP is unwilling to let people lay them out and talk about them; once laid out, it's a complete mess. How do you lay them out, you say? Actually, regarding Huang Qifan's downfall, whether it is because of corruption or because talking too much angered Xi Jinping, various discussions are still limited to the surface level. How so? Essentially or in a karmic cause-and-effect sense, no one has discussed it clearly. Wait a minute, karmic cause-and-effect sense, what does that mean?

This has to start from how Huang Qifan and Bo Xilai cooperated like a fish in water. It's a long story, so tell us how long of a story it is? Some tea friends might still have an impression: during the Two Sessions in 2010, Xinhua News Agency published a syndicated copy. Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifan talked about partnering with Bo Xilai, colon: like a fish in water, very energetic. As we said yesterday, pretty sickening. The article said that when reporters asked him about his feelings on partnering with Bo Xilai to govern China's largest municipality, Huang Qifan blurted out the four words "like a fish in water," and stated that getting along was extremely pleasant and very energetic, and the morale of the entire municipal party committee team was smooth! Both Bo Xilai and Qincheng prison would throw up. After I was thrown into prison, what did you say when you criticized me in meetings big and small back then? Hey, cut the crap.

Huang Qifan said that after feeling like a fish in water, in 2016, Chongqing petitioner Deng Guangying climbed the wall to accept an interview with the overseas New Tang Dynasty Television, mentioning that between 2006 and 2011, during those five years, there was a particularly large number of missing persons in Chongqing, and many of those missing persons became victims of forced organ harvesting. How did she know so early on? Because one of her relatives made more than 10 million through organ harvesting. Oh my god, you can see this business. According to him, this commercial black chain of organ harvesting started from the Beibei District Public Security Bureau, went up through district party secretary Lei Zhengfu, and Lei Zhengfu went all the way to the city level where Bo Xilai, Huang Qifan, Wang Lijun, and Gu Kailai were all involved. Oh my god! In 2012, Deng Guangying petitioned. Zhou Hongliang, from the Chongqing petition office, directly laid it out to her, admitting that this matter of organ harvesting and trafficking was something Mayor Bo and his wife Gu Kailai did together. It was equivalent to admitting that Chongqing Municipal Party Committee's Huang Qifan and Standing Committee of the People's Congress Hu Jiankang were both involved. Oh my god! Can we finish off these people? I mean overturning them. It seems that Huang Qifan's participation in the organ harvesting business of Bo Xilai and his wife was an open secret in the Chongqing officialdom, and everyone knew it at the time. Deng Guangying said that Zhou Hongliang of the Chongqing petition office directly told him that Bo Xilai, Gu Kailai, Wang Lijun, and Huang Qifan joined forces to do organ harvesting business; this was in 2012. The following year, in 2013, an audio recording of Bo Xilai personally admitting to overseas entities that he engaged in the organ harvesting business was exposed. Wasn't it his own admission? Were you drunk? No, on September 13, 2006, Bo Xilai, then Minister of Commerce, visited Hamburg, Germany with Premier Wen Jiabao. An organ harvesting investigator made a phone inquiry to Bo Xilai in the name of the first secretary of the Chinese Embassy in Germany. How did they ask? The first secretary said, back when you were the governor of Liaoning, regarding the matter of living organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, was it your order or Jiang Zemin's order? Bo Xilai immediately replied, Chairman Jiang, uh, uh. Right there, Bo Xilai didn't even hesitate and directly threw Toad Jiang under the bus. In fact, it is no wonder he said Jiang Zemin really was the ultimate backstage mastermind of organ harvesting. Later, the investigator wanted to ask more, and Bo Xilai directly shouted, go find Ambassador Ma yourselves. Ambassador Ma deliberately referred to Ma Canrong, the Chinese Ambassador to Germany. Bo Xilai's last sentence was stop asking, and hung up. Right, was he enraged out of shame, or did he realize he had let something slip? You'll have to ponder that yourselves. Come back to your senses, shh.

Is that Minister Bo? Who is this? Ah, I am the, that embassy, I am the first secretary of that embassy. Ah. Well, there's a slight prompt, today the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentioned to us in the afternoon, there is a matter that needs to be clarified. Um. That is, uh, that is to say, ah, back when you were the governor there in Liaoning, because regarding the meeting tomorrow, they want to clarify something, that is, back when you were the governor in Liaoning, uh, is it that Jiang Zemin, uh, Chairman Jiang gave the order, or, uh, did you, or did you participate, meaning regarding this matter of living organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners, is it your order or Jiang Zemin's order? Their German Foreign Ministry wants to verify, meaning, if you participated in this matter, they mean some of the meetings, meaning the level at which they attend might change. Uh, that is to say, because they, Falun Gong submitted a, ah, uh, no, wait, but this matter immediately, they just submitted this this afternoon, meaning giving us a note, meaning.

Good heavens! Bo Xilai really admitted it in his own words; the investigative journalist simply caught him off guard with a time difference. Bo Xilai completely didn't expect to receive a call from an international investigator, so he blurted out the truth without thinking, and that's that.

Now it works out. If Bo Xilai's involvement in live organ harvesting is confirmed, then resuming his old trade in Chongqing, with Huang Qifan joining in, would not be something out of Arabian Nights. Of course, did Huang Qifan participate directly, or did he merely know about it and turn a blind eye? It is still hard to jump to a conclusion. One thing everyone knows is that live organ harvesting was the tactic used by Jiang Zemin, the originator of the persecution of Falun Gong, and the executors, operators, and participants were basically all key members of the Jiang faction. If you really put it that way, does Huang Qifan truly have inextricably intertwined ties with the Jiang faction? Do you have clues? What about Jiang Weiping, the former Wen Wei Po journalist? I remember that in 2016, he disclosed this on Radio Free Asia, saying that Huang Qifan was a member of Jiang Zemin's Shanghai Gang and a big hustler running around Shanghai. That is a rather heavy assessment. But why has someone with Huang Qifan's background never fallen until now? Political commentator Lin Baohua also believes that behind Huang Qifan there are figures even higher than Wu Bangguo firmly backing him. The "Toad" Huang Qifan was implicated in the corruption cases involving Jiang Zemin's son, and his biggest backer was Jiang Zemin himself. The clues are connected. Yin Ke, a former Zhejiang-faction official within the system, said that Xi Jinping is currently targeting the personnel of the Toad faction. Except for Jiang's immediate family and descendants, who are temporarily untouched, everyone else is hanging by a thread. As for this Chongqing petitioner Deng Guangying, years ago he personally heard staff from the letters and calls bureau tell him that Bo Xilai, Gu Kailai, and Wang Lijun were involved in the live harvesting and trafficking of organs, and Huang Qifan was also involved.

Coming back to the petitioner Deng Guangying, Deng Guangying said that because he publicly dragged this hyper-sensitive dark secret into the light while petitioning, Bo Xilai and Wang Lijun may have wanted to silence him. The way this silencing manifested was that he was genuinely targeted by the live organ harvesting ring. Oh my goodness, he really had to watch out. But it was already too late: he was actually abducted by those villains, really pushed onto the operating table, and they were preparing to harvest his organs by force. Fortunately, before the surgery could even begin, it was abruptly halted. Only later did he find out what happened: his younger brother had turned to their grand-uncle who was an official in Chongqing for help, and this grand-uncle was at that time the top chief of the Chongqing Municipal Procuratorate. Oh my god! Scared the hell out of me! The whole thing reads like a blockbuster movie script, a horror blockbuster. It seems that when Bo Xilai went to Chongqing, he really brought over the live harvesting business he had set up in Dalian. That's right. Hey, wait a minute, is this petitioner Deng Guangying one of those Falun Gong practitioners who were harvested the hardest? Oh, no. Deng Guangying himself stated that he is not a Falun Gong practitioner, but just an ordinary peasant from the outer suburbs of Chongqing. However, he had come into contact with Falun Gong practitioners. When he was sent to re-education through labor for petitioning, he was detained at the Shimahe Women's Re-education Through Labor Camp in Jiangbei, Chongqing. At that time, he personally saw and heard a Falun Gong practitioner with a real name, Xu Zhen. Xu Zhen's agonizing screams as her organs were being harvested! Deng Guangying said, I know live organ harvesting is an extremely sensitive topic, yes. But for justice, and so that more people won't be harvested alive, I went for broke. Oh my god, really went for broke! In mainland China, daring to report live organ harvesting under one's real name comes with an enormous price. After the news of Deng Guangying's interview aired, he was arrested by police in Beijing in October 2016, extradited to Chongqing, and directly locked up in the Sanmiao Psychiatric Hospital in Hechuan District. Inside the psychiatric hospital, Chongqing local officials repeatedly coerced his father, Deng Zhangkai, to sign documents confirming him as a psychiatric patient. How evil! The elderly man categorically refused: "My daughter has no mental illness whatsoever! Raising grievances makes one mentally ill?!" What complete bastards! Wait, so when was Deng Guangying released? He has not been released even to this day, and has been confined in a psychiatric hospital for so many years—ten years already. In there, they force-feed poison, administer toxic injections, and commit every kind of wicked deed! Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch reported news about him in the year 2023. At that time, he was still locked up in the psychiatric hospital, completely cut off from the outside world. Just listen to that: several years have passed since then, totaling about ten years of detention, and nobody knows whether he is dead or alive. Ah, how terrifying! Look at this, this is the communist society! These disposable pack mules still care about whether Huang Qifan lives or dies? They had better start caring about their own body parts first. Ah, so commentator Mei Lingshuang said, whether people believe it or not, the net of heaven has large meshes, but it lets nothing through. Indeed. No matter how high-flying an official once was, once stained with blood debts—especially this evil never before seen on this planet—the outcome has already been written. Dear tea friends, we must run a poll. Do you think Huang Qifan's sudden downfall after being retired for so many years makes him a victim of injustice? Option 1: He was somewhat wronged by bumping into the paranoid Xi Jinping. Option 2: Not a single fallen CCP official is wronged. Option 3: Hard to tell, still observing. Hurry up and type your number in the comments section.

As the Fifth Plenary Session is just around the corner, it is coming soon. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee is just ten days away from being convened. Security measures in Beijing and its surrounding areas are visibly entering a wartime state characterized by extreme tension and paranoia, where every bush and tree looks like an enemy soldier. Driven by excessive fear, they end up scaring themselves, stumbling into imaginary threats. The bridge guards with CCP characteristics, born back then when the lone hero Peng Lifa hung banners on the Sitong Bridge, are now fully in place. In addition to this, a so-called

Old Yin is getting carried away, constantly posting updates and additional leaks, claiming that Xi Jinping's handover of power to Li Qiang is already a done deal, and that Ding Xuexiang already looks the part of State Council Premier. Li Xi looks quite dejected, keeping quite a distance from Ding Xuexiang. That is some meticulous observation, and there is more behind these details. What is it? Yin's earlier disclosure claimed that on the afternoon of October 14, 2026, CCP Politburo Standing Committee member and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Li Xi was suspended again over a case involving Huang Qifan and his son, with Secretariat Secretary Liu Jinguo taking charge and Sun Xinyang assisting. Relying solely on a photograph was hardly enough to convince the public. Yet the whistleblower remained remarkably composed, dropping seven words: take it or leave it, no explanation, can't be bothered to explain. Beneath it was an image: the CCP Ministry of Commerce reposting a Xinhua News Agency report on Li Qiang attending a symposium marking the 70th anniversary of the Canton Fair. What does this imply? Li Qiang is about to assert himself, enthusiastically taking up heavy daily duties. After all, prior to this, on October 12, Yin had just predicted that Li Qiang was about to visit Guangzhou, Guangdong Province for an inspection tour, and swing by Chaoshan to see his in-laws. It was remarkably accurate—right on cue. With this accuracy, the crackdown on corrupt party officials suddenly broadened in scope. Who are they going after this time? Yin released expanded leaks: Huang Qifan is implicated in the case of former Beijing Municipal CPPCC Chairman Wei Xiaodong. Huang had supposedly cleared the hurdles, but this time it involves Li Zhanshu's daughter. According to the leak, Huang Qifan's son, Huang Ranfei, operates in financial businesses in Shenzhen, and Li Zhanshu's daughter, Li Qianxin, is directly connected to Huang Ranfei. Li Qianxin's white gloves collaborated with her subordinates and Huang Ranfei on enterprise listings on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and maintained high-frequency cooperation in Hong Kong, spawning rat trading, locked-in asset pools, kickback accounts, and official proxy shareholdings. The origin was the Chinese Fujian faction trying to take down Chen Min'er of the Zhejiang faction, but it ended up snaring Li Zhanshu instead.

When the hour strikes, guests must depart. Li Zhanshu's luck and fate are also nearly exhausted. The political commentator noted that from what the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection task force currently has, the Huang Qifan case has little to do with Ding Xuexiang or Chen Min'er; rather, it connects to former NPC Standing Committee Chairman Li Zhanshu and his daughter Li Qianxin, to Han Zheng and his daughter Han Xue, to the Xi Yuanping case, and has indirect ties to fallen former CSRC Chairman Yi Huiman, links to Wei Xiaodong, strong correlations with former CSRC Vice Chairman Fang Xinghai, ties to Chongqing's international system, and rather weak links to former Chongqing Mayor Hu Henghua and Chongqing Party Secretary Yuan Jiajun. It seems this "supportive wingman" Li Zhanshu, who looked so honest and plain day in and day out, couldn't get away either. People tuned out everything else, only hearing Li Zhanshu's name. It's pulling up a radish only to bring up the daughter—bad luck has found Li Zhanshu. According to Fanning's information, Li Qianxin, Li Zhanshu's daughter and the current chairman of CCB International Holdings, is currently having one "tea session" after another at the Hong Kong ICAC. The supportive wingman played wingman for so long that he dragged both himself and his relatives into the mess. The supportive wingman Li Zhanshu demurred, saying he was flattered—not the best, but better than the worst; no matter how hard it gets, we haven't been forced into actual exile yet. That doesn't feel good. What is this guy talking about? It's just more bad news about an "Iron-Cap King." And what about Zeng Qinghong? That was also noted: nobody pays attention to that Iron-Cap King Zeng Qinghong. What's the situation now? Zeng Qinghong does not reside permanently in Beijing, but mostly lives in Hong Kong. Without an invitation from Cai Qi, Director of the CCP Central Committee General Office, neither he nor his son Zeng Wei dares to return to mainland China. Why? Because Wu Guanzheng and Zeng Qinghong had a clash of interests in Jiangxi, which led to Wu Guanzheng's eldest son Wu Zuhua jumping to his death from a building, and his younger son Wu Shaohua being placed under house arrest by the Discipline Inspection Commission. Over this blood feud of a murdered son, without the approval of the Central Secretariat and security protection provided by the Central Guard Bureau, should they return to mainland China, Zeng Qinghong and Zeng Wei could face assassination at any time by the white gloves or political proxies of Wu Guanzheng's successors. Currently, aside from being invited, Zeng Qinghong is only permitted to stay in his ancestral home in Jiangxi for 72 hours a year during the Qingming Festival. Listening to all of this, this gang really is as dark as it gets—darker than a crow.