Li Zhanshu Purges Ling Jihua's Old Guard from the CCP Central Committee General Office in Batches in the Name of a "Political Organ" During His Tenure as Director

After Li Zhanshu took over as director of the General Office of the CCP Central Committee in 2012, he defined the office as a "political organ," transferring and demoting in batches the cronies installed by Ling Jihua on the basis of political loyalty, and remade the General Office into an institution answerable only to Xi Jinping.