What Was the Real Purpose of Xi Jinping's Trip to Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, Yesterday?

In this episode, host Hu Liren analyzed the real itinerary and security considerations of Xi Jinping's recent low-key inspection of the Ulanqab computing center in Inner Mongolia, pointing out that his activity range has long been restricted to within 300 kilometers around Beijing. The episode also exposed the corrupt nature of power purges among the top leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the carving up of social resources by various party factions, and discussed the potential major political storm at the top level of the CCP that may be triggered by the upcoming 20th Central Committee Fifth Plenary Session.

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Hello, audience friends! Sorry, I didn't do a live broadcast yesterday, and some friends sent me messages asking, "Teacher Hu, why didn't you do a live broadcast yesterday?" I apologize to everyone, because I had some personal matters at home yesterday, so I didn't have time to do the live broadcast. During this period, I have almost been doing it every day, but occasionally I have some personal matters to handle, so I didn't do it. I apologize to everyone again, and thank you for your concern for me.😊

So, yesterday, uh, Xi Jinping went to Inner Mongolia. This matter, actually, if you look at Xi Jinping now, his movements within the country are all highly classified beforehand. Like last time, a few months ago, he went to Dezhou, he went to Dezhou, he went to Dezhou. Then later, he went to this... uh, actually Beidaihe, Beidaihe could be said to be within expectations, it was known beforehand. But this time he went to Inner Mongolia, uh, Ulanqab city, which is a very, uh, covert itinerary. He, Xi Jinping, is actually very afraid, it should be said he is very afraid. Why doesn't he announce it? He doesn't announce beforehand where he is going to inspect, and these matters are all highly classified by the Central Security Bureau before he goes, and they do this at that location. Regarding this trip, I looked into it, he took a special train to this Ulanqab, because it is very convenient to go by special train, it takes about an hour or so. Ah, the special train is very fast now! Do you know where Ulanqab is? It is actually in the northwest direction of Beijing, past Badaling, towards Zhangjiakou, I have driven this road, I have driven it before, it takes about three hours to drive there, just about. It used to be, now going in the direction of Badaling, heading north, there are often traffic jams, so. If there were no traffic jams, it used to be, if there were no traffic jams, driving there, you would arrive there in just three hours, about three hours, it's not far. It is Inner Mongolia, that is, after you go out of Zhangjiakou, uh, heading north, heading northwest. Actually, this place is in the northwest direction, there is a computing power center there, uh, when that computing power center was being built, some of my friends participated in the construction, participated in the construction. I have a friend who used to be in China. That is, specifically, specifically doing this, you have to know that this is actually in Shanghai and Beijing, two places, there are very professional talents. I have two friends who are in the National Data Center, that is, in the national, this informatization office, they are expert-level figures. I used to be in this industry, so, I have relatively many people I am familiar with. Ah, this computing power center is very large, I knew about it very early on. Very large, this should be said, this computing power center, is different from other computing power centers. The so-called computing power center is a database center, which is to say, in that place, there are a great many of these database servers placed there. So these database servers, in their operation, they require massive amounts of this electrical energy. So Inner Mongolia is also relatively convenient, it is, in this area outside the Great Wall, in that place there are some of these wind power projects, that is, uh, one is that the sunshine duration is relatively long, it should be said, uh, it is relatively, relatively vast, the place is relatively vast, that place, uh. So, in that place, they can build powerful, this very large, this super-large, this, uh, uh, this solar photovoltaic system, this is one. Second, in that place, it has wind farms, it has wind farms. Inner Mongolia has very large wind farms, so in the north, the wind is relatively strong. So, it is this, you see, during the day, it is often using this sun to generate electricity, and a portion is wind. Then at night, the wind power is very strong, so building that system in that place is very good. It, it, this power consumption has very, uh. The Ulanqab computing power center should be, in the whole country, in the entire China, it can also be considered, it can also be considered one of the top-tier computing power centers. Uh, how big is it? Let me describe it to everyone roughly. It has, it has, just the servers alone, it has millions, five or six million servers, that's what I know, that's roughly the situation as I know it. And how big is it? It is about, it is about twenty-five football fields to thirty football fields in size. Just think, how big is this database, this computing power center? This computing power center, it doesn't do external business, it doesn't do external business, it almost entirely handles domestic commercial business, that is to say, things like ByteDance, Alibaba, that is, like those Huawei, many of these databases are placed there. This database is not for external use. China has many data centers. They undertake external business, that is to say, for example, the United States or other countries, some of these servers are placed in China, there are some, they pay money every year, they pay money every year, that is how it is. So, but that Ulanqab data center does not, does not.

So, Xi Jinping's visit to Ulanqab this time, you see, is much like his previous trip to Dezhou. I have been saying all along that Xi Jinping is in a very dangerous position during this period. He keeps arresting people, and he doesn't dare to rashly travel to other cities, to fly to other cities—for example, if he were to fly to Kunming or Yunnan, he could do it, it's not that he can't, but the risk is relatively high. The risk is high because he has offended so many people. When I make these programs and talk about these things, everyone needs to understand. For instance, he could go to Guangdong now, but the security risk would be relatively greater because there are many anti-Xi forces hidden there, and he is quite afraid, quite afraid. Look at this: since November 1st of last year, when he went to Guangdong, he hasn't been to other parts of China since returning. He has only been to three places. Up until now, he has only visited three places in China: Beidaihe is one, Dezhou is another—Dezhou is directly north of Beijing, in Shandong territory, not far from Hebei. The other is this trip to Ulanqab. Ulanqab is the first city you enter in Inner Mongolia after leaving Hebei. This is Xi Jinping's current range of activity; one could say his current range of activity is centered around Beijing, within a radius of about 300 kilometers. Everyone remembers, right? A while ago, he issued a ban that within a 300-kilometer radius of the center of Beijing, no aircraft are allowed, except for civilian flight routes. Other flying objects are absolutely prohibited. For example, if you were to operate a flying device, a drone, it is absolutely illegal; if you are caught, you are breaking the law. So, Xi Jinping is very dangerous and very afraid. Didn't an incident happen a while ago? A light aircraft in Beijing crashed directly into a building. It crashed into a building! Up until now, we are only speculating; we don't know the real situation. Events like this are extremely dangerous. I calculated that for this aircraft, if it were carrying explosives—actually, the plane itself is an explosive, it carries fuel—if it had flown into Zhongnanhai, at the speed it was flying, it would have taken about six minutes, a little over five minutes, maybe six minutes to get there. And it was flying into Beijing from the west, heading exactly in that direction, so this was a very big deal. I suspect that after this incident occurred, some people may have been removed from office. In the last two days, Beijing has been in an uproar. In Beijing, about fifty or sixty high-ranking officials from various ministries have been arrested. Everyone has seen it; there are all kinds of reports online every day about how many 'tigers' have been caught. There have been so many lately, and this wave of arrests is nationwide, covering all parts of the country—the Northeast, the Northwest, everywhere. This time, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has once again dispatched many inspection teams to various places across the country, supposedly for 'investigations,' but in reality, they are there to arrest people.

However, Xi Jinping, if he were to go to these county party committee compounds, county government offices, provincial governments, or provincial party committee compounds to make arrests, there would be absolutely no problem with that, right? These are places—as I already made a video about last year—where currently, the control of provincial governments and provincial party committees across the country is not handled by local armed forces, but by personnel from the Central Security Bureau. It is just like the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. In the past, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government had a government security office. I used to have a friend who worked in that government security office, and his seniority was extremely high, right? I've mentioned before that he used to be responsible for Jiang Zemin's security detail. Later, when Jiang Zemin returned to Shanghai, he was also in charge of security, including the security work for the construction of the Dongjiao Guesthouse—all of that was his responsibility. This was because the construction involved... well, before Jiang Zemin moved back to Shanghai, the Dongjiao Guesthouse... At that time, since Jiang Zemin chose this place, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government arranged a home for him there. Originally, he lived right below the Hengshan Hotel, below the Hengshan Hotel—a place where security work was extremely difficult. This was because even right by Hengshan, there is a place called Hengshan Park. Every Shanghainese knows Hengshan Park; it used to be open, and we often went there to play when we were kids. I grew up living in Xujiahui. Later on, that Hengshan Park in Xujiahui was closed. Why was it closed? It was because Jiang Zemin's home was right next to the Hengshan Hotel, and a small path was blocked off. After it was blocked, they cut a doorway, and the Hengshan Hotel essentially became his home.

However, there was an issue with the Hengshan Hotel. Directly across the street from the Hengshan Hotel, there was a place called... let's see, opposite Hengshan Park there is a road called Wanying Road—wait, Wanying Road? No, Wanying Road's opposite... wait, across a small alley, a very small road—Wanying Road is a very small road—directly opposite it was the Hengshan Hotel. The upper floors of the Hengshan Hotel were relatively tall, old buildings built by the French back in the day. These were not built during the Communist era; they were very old buildings from before 1949. Looking down from the upper floors of this building, though the height couldn't compare to modern skyscrapers, at the time it was still quite tall, probably around ten to twenty floors or so—definitely under twenty floors, somewhere in the teens. Because back then, the tallest building was the Park Hotel, which was around seventeen floors, so this was also just over ten floors. People upstairs could look down and see the entire situation of Hengshan Park. Therefore, at that time, the security office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government considered this place unsafe.

At that time, Jiang Zemin had accumulated a huge amount of bad karma. He had committed countless sins and had become a public enemy back then. Look at the Falun Gong incident—that's how it was, right? Knowing full well that he had committed too much evil, he later went into hiding at the Dongjiao Guesthouse. And the Dongjiao Guesthouse became yet another place of sin. Later on, as you can see, Premier Li Keqiang ended up dying right in that very place. Li Keqiang died right there. By the time Li Keqiang was sent to the hospital, he was already dead.

Therefore, when we look back and recount this history, when we look back at the history of these Communist officials, you can see that this entire group is constantly accumulating evil for itself. Natural deaths are extremely rare among them. Even those deaths that outwardly appear normal are, in many cases, actually non-natural deaths.

Even when they appear to be natural deaths, much of their assets and various holdings have already been handed over and audited; it's simply that it hasn't been made public to the outside world. Take the Jiang family, for example—the assets of Jiang Zemin's family were audited and liquidated. This is something I know very well, something I had direct, firsthand knowledge of from the past.

Well, Jiang Zemin's son had a company located right next to my company in the Jinshan Industrial Zone, on Jiugong Road. There was a company called Huirui Photoelectric—wait, what was it called? Huhe... Huiguang Electric. It used to be a listed company, a venture funded with 600 million yuan, and it didn't last very long—barely any time at all.

Let's see, when was it built? Around 2010? Just think about it, later on—I went to invest in Jinshan in 2009, and I watched this factory being built, meaning it was around 2009. When they made the investment, it must have been around 2012 or 2013. Xi Jinping... I watched it being built, watched the construction finish, and later people said this was a listed company, right?

Outsiders who are not on the inside do not know about this. Because I have a close friend in Jinshan who is a leader, he told me back then that this was a company belonging to Jiang Zemin's son, so they closed off all the roads and did closed-construction. Ah, Jiang Zemin's son invested in that place, ah, in that place. Later on, he told me that this company no longer belonged to Jiang Zemin's family, as it had become extremely profitable, making mobile phone coatings, and many of the mobile phone coatings are finished in this place. Jinshan, ah, there are many chemical zones in that place, and many of the coatings contain highly toxic substances.

Why do I know about this company? Because there is more, I also know why they make this stuff. Because when my company was recruiting employees, some employees from their side worked there for a while and then jumped ship to mine. I asked them, 'Where did you used to work?' They said, 'I used to work at Hehui Optoelectronics.' I said, 'Why did you quit Hehui Optoelectronics? Right? Such a big company, coming to work at my small company, why not stay? Why did you quit?' They said, 'That place is highly toxic.'

They said many people were poisoned, right there at Hehui Optoelectronics. So these things done by the Chinese Communist Party, you look at manufacturing, you look at the world making this world factory manufacturing, all kinds of manufacturing being like this, actually it's because many countries are unwilling to do it, or environmental protection cannot pass the standards at all, or even if environmental protection is to pass, you have to spend a tremendous amount.

Investment, but it's different in China. The factory opened by your leader has many, there are many Chinese people, the Chinese Communist Party is just like this. Otherwise, you go to invest in other places, and people's enterprises won't let you invest at all. In China, it's like this: you come to me to invest, ah, you could never make it in the United States. You come to me to invest, you bring all these toxic things—that's why that place used to be called the Eastern Den of Poisons, the Eastern Den of Poisons.

Right? This is, this is China, so behind the great Made in China that we see, it is actually a bloody truth. The real thing behind it is actually bloody. Ordinary Chinese people have paid too much, ordinary people have paid too much! At present, the entire country is actually, if you look at the Chinese Communist Party, now internal politics, this intra-party earthquake is very fierce. Look at the Fifth Plenary Session, ah, the 20th Central Committee's Fifth Plenary Session, I am telling you, it has actually become a pig-slaughtering meeting.

There are still ten days, it opens on the 26th, there are still ten days, ah, it has turned into, turned into a pig-slaughtering meeting. Xi Jinping went quietly this time, came back quietly. Look at who sent who to take him this time? Uh, who followed him? He Lifeng went with him. Now, now the central officials, they try their best not to let you leave Beijing. Xi Jinping now suspects everyone, everyone, including the people around him, including the people around him, look, including Li Qiang, including Cai Qi, actually he holds a skeptical attitude toward all of them.

ah, he absolutely, absolutely will not. Just in case, ah, there is someone now—there are too many people against Xi Jinping, ah. He also knows that he himself has offended so many people, ah. The Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese Communist Party, look, you are saying this is anti-corruption and anti-corruption, but actually within the Chinese Communist Party, it itself is a big corruption group. You say who, who is not corrupt? Those who are not corrupt basically do not exist. That is, if you say inside the Chinese Communist Party, wanting to be uncorrupt is impossible.

Because for any project, they actually all have decision-making power, and who does this decision-making power involve? The person involved might be your boss, and your boss will lead you into corruption. If you are not corrupt, he feels it is dangerous. Let me give you an example: there is a project with an investment of one billion, and two hundred million in kickbacks can be taken from this project.

Right? Then where is this specific project located, in a certain city? Then the mayor and the municipal party secretary have to make the final decision, but what is it that truly makes the final decision? It is the leaders at the provincial level, the leaders at the central level. So when these people want to make the final decision on this project, it is impossible for them to take all the money away by themselves, right? So in this process, then these people, the ones who handle the networking.

The real beneficiaries, they will scatter the money. You say he gave it to the central enterprise officials above, gave it to the provincial officials, gave it to the mayor, and you don't take it—suppose you don't take it, then to him it is a kind of risk, this kind of risk. And not only is it a risk to him, it is a risk to the superiors above as well. Therefore, the Chinese Communist Party is definitely a greed-nest, absolutely like a bandit lair. You say I alone want to be completely clean and do no bad things, then you would have been wiped out long ago, wiped out long ago, the internal system would have dealt with you. You are not on the same path as us, who knows when something happens, you might even betray me.

So, everyone inside the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is corrupt. Ah, so if Xi Jinping uses corruption as a pretext to arrest officials, he is actually just gilding his own lily and gilding the lily for the CCP. He has always been telling the outside world and the common people that we must arrest all corrupt officials, but the reality is completely different. In reality, look at Li Qiang, look at the future, look at these people like Li Qiang, Cai Qi, and He Lifeng—this group of his—they will definitely be liquidated by his successors in the future.

Well, perhaps they will be liquidated by himself, liquidated by his own team. Once the liquidation process begins, you will see, Cai Qi might be worth billions, Li Qiang might be worth billions, someone else might be worth billions; it is all like this. This is the essence of the CCP. So, when we look at these things and try to understand Chinese politics, you must understand the essence of Chinese politics, the essence of the CCP, and what they are like. Look at me, I used to be with...

I used to be with these 'red princelings' in China, often hanging out together, just because of work relationships. These people—today I go to eat, and I don't even know who I might run into. Some people might just show up. I have told everyone many stories before; these people show up, and you don't even realize it. Just a meal, a single meal, costing tens of thousands of yuan—that is real. Look, one time, I once told everyone a story. One time, we had already finished dinner, it was late at night, and there was nothing to do. Everyone said, 'Boss Hu, where shall we go for a late-night snack?' I said, 'I'm going home, let's go together.' Ah, we arrived at Lujiazui, had a late-night snack, and spent 20,000 yuan.

There were about six or seven of us, yes, six or seven people. Many of the attendants hadn't arrived yet, it was just the six or seven of us. Look, 20,000 yuan is like this. For the average Chinese person—I actually had a very high income in China, but I lived a relatively ordinary life—I couldn't even imagine it. That was over twenty years ago. Think about it, what was the concept of 20,000 yuan back then? It was a year's salary for an ordinary person, a whole year's salary.

These are the people of the CCP. I remember who was there that day? It was Gong Xueping. Everyone knows the Deputy Party Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee, Gong Xueping, right? It was Gong Xueping's younger brother who paid the bill that day, it seems. His brother was in the advertising business. That day, he was sitting next to me chatting. I will tell everyone about the Gong Xueping family later. What does his brother do? He runs an advertising company, and he monopolized all the lightbox advertisements on Nanjing Road, completely monopolized them. You think about it, I asked him, 'What do you do?' He said, 'I do those lightbox advertisements.'

I said, 'Which lightbox advertisements?' He said, 'On the road, you know, these bus stops, every bus stop has a large lightbox advertisement, including the poles above, the poles at the stations, he monopolized them all, completely monopolized them.' He said, 'I took them all down.' He said, 'The CCP...' So, for the common people, you say, can you make money? You absolutely cannot make money. People like him, look, look at his brother doing lightbox advertisements. You think, if a big company wants to bribe Gong Xueping, you don't need to send money to Gong Xueping at all.

Do you know who to send money to? You send it to his brother. It's very simple. Your lightbox advertisement, right? Okay, name your price, how much? I am a big company, for example, I am Samsung, I am Nokia, I am whatever, I will just let you do the advertising, right? Every year I do a lightbox advertisement with you, I give you a design draft, you put it up, and I pay you a certain amount every year. They are all just sitting there collecting money. Later, I asked him, I said, 'What about that...'

I said, 'On the banks of the Huangpu River, there are many, for example, you go to the Bund, to Lujiazui, you see many large billboards on these big buildings. I said, can you get those billboards?' He said, 'I can't even get those, even my brother can't get those.' Who decides that? Do you know? The one who really makes the final decision is the Shanghai Municipal Party Secretary; even the Mayor of Shanghai can't make that decision, the Mayor can't.

If you want to be on a certain building, let's say, for example, on the Shanghai Mansion, I'm just giving an example, there is a billboard on it. As long as it's on the Bund or across from the Grand Gateway 66 in Shanghai, logically, these advertisements on the Grand Gateway 66 should be decided by the property management. But this billboard is one I made; it's not decided by the property management at all. The real decision-maker is the number one person in the Shanghai government. One billboard up there for a year—what is it? A year could be millions or tens of millions in advertising.

This is an image advertisement. What are these things? They are all monopolized by the Shanghai government, monopolized by the boss, the government boss. Look, Gong Xueping's younger brother told me personally at the time, he said, 'I can't even get this billboard, I can't get it, I don't have the final say, the boss, the Municipal Party Secretary, decides.' You think about the Communist Party, how corrupt do you think it is? Right? It basically holds all the resources—national resources, government resources, social resources—all these major resources are entirely in their own hands. It is not competitive at all, not competitive in the slightest.

Everything is non-competitive, it's all backroom deals. These billboards you see hanging in those places, they are actually just a transfer of benefits, a transfer of benefits! These things, so, when you have been in the business world like we have and know many people, you will know.

You will know to what extent the Communist Party is corrupt. Ordinary people don't know, they can't even comprehend it. How could you understand? Ordinary people are busy trying to make a living every day, earning a few thousand yuan in salary a month, oh, working themselves to death, right? These people, every year, as long as you have these resources, you just casually sign a few papers and the money comes in. One signature might bring in millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions.

So, I used to be in this circle, I was quite familiar with these people, many, many of them I knew quite well. For example, they... all the resources in the whole society, some of the resources of the Shanghai Municipal Government, are all monopolized by them; ordinary people have none. So these, you see these people in the Communist Party, in the end.

They themselves are actually left with nothing, unless you run away, you run overseas, you escape. If you don't escape, you look at the people above in the future, now that Xi Jinping is investigating and cracking down, everyone is just being robbed. Now it has all become the assets of the Xi family. It's not like before, where hundreds of Communist Party families divided up the entire social resources and the entire national resources; now it is the Xi family's monopoly, a total monopoly, a total monopoly.

A total monopoly. What is Xi Jinping gambling on now? He is gambling, he is gambling against everyone in China, he is gambling with his life, he is gambling with his life. Hey, if he wins, then fine, the emperor will be passed down through the Xi family generation after generation. You think, can you imagine? If you can imagine, if Xi Jinping were to pass his position to an outsider.

Just like Hu Jintao passed it to him, just like Jiang Zemin passed it to Hu Jintao, just like the Deng family passed it to the Jiang family, what is the final result? The final result is, even if your successor doesn't take all your assets, can you guarantee the next one will? Just like Xi Jinping has now seized all the assets of the Deng family, can you guarantee it? Ah, you absolutely cannot guarantee it. Under these circumstances, the only path for Xi Jinping, which is why I have always...

judged that the only path for Xi Jinping is hereditary succession within his family; this is his only path. Apart from this path, every other path is a dead end for him; he has no chance of survival. His family, and Xi Jinping, look, everything Xi Jinping has done, he has offended almost every family within the Communist Party, so he has no way out; it is a life-or-death struggle. That's why I said in my program before that Xi Jinping is currently gambling with his life.

Alright, this time, look, this has been verified again. Look at Xi Jinping, he doesn't dare, the places he goes, look, one is running to the northwest, one is running, it's within a radius of 300 kilometers, that is, the west, that is, within a 300-kilometer radius of Beijing. It is very dangerous for him to go anywhere else now, especially to the northeast or northwest; these two places might be a dead end for him, might be a dead end.

Ah, alright, we will wait patiently these few days, wait for the, uh, uh, uh, this Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, to see what kind of shocking things happen. At that time, he won't be able to hide the truth, it won't be hidden, he won't be able to cover it up anymore, that is, many, many people will suddenly disappear. The people who disappear at that time, these Central Committee members, the Central Committee members participating in the meeting this time are the alternate members of the Central Committee, these two groups of people, plus some others in the gallery, the whole meeting only has a few hundred people, probably around 400 people.

At, that is, at, that is, around 400 people, right? These people, they all have names, they have names themselves. Some people might just disappear. I estimate that Xi Jinping will have huge moves this time, many people might disappear at the meeting, disappear at the meeting. Then after a while, it might be released continuously. This is a big storm, this is a big storm, ah, the big storm of the CCP, ah, it has arrived, the era of this big storm has arrived. Alright, thank you all for watching, see you in the next program.