Xi Jinping arrived at Shanghai's Xijiao State Guest House 48 hours in advance to present his governing achievements to CCP elders, facing strong doubts from the elders regarding his policies.
On August 17, 2026, the CCP Central Committee held a meeting at the Great Hall of the People to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jiang Zemin. Xi Jinping attended and delivered a lengthy speech, in which he twice reiterated the official characterization of the 1989 political turmoil while reviewing history.
Reports indicate that the family and nephew-in-law Wu Zhengping of former Premier Zhu Rongji are facing a comprehensive crackdown by Xi Jinping, with their assets seized and affiliated company personnel missing. Zhu Rongji himself reportedly passed away recently without a funeral committee being established.
During the solicitation period in August, the document drafting group received 58 feedback opinions from veteran party comrades who had retired from party and state leadership positions, sparking a clash within the party's top leadership over the direction of the line.
The former head of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions has been replaced and succeeded by Minister of Civil Affairs Lu Zhiyuan. This move is interpreted as a pre-emptive effort by the Senate elders and reformists to control the trade union system in order to prevent grassroots turmoil.
The program said that Zhang Liansheng, a Xinhua News Agency veteran reporter over 100 years old, wrote a letter to Xi Jinping stating that Xinhua should fully support the CCP Central Committee, after which Xinhua commentators successively published related propaganda articles.
Li Tao, who has long been in charge of Henan's state-owned industrial system, has been promoted to the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial Party Committee, seen as a steel nail planted by the veteran faction in the localities to audit state-owned assets and urban investment accounts.
Elderly officials of the Chinese Communist Party pushed for Guan Zhiou to bypass Xi Jinping and directly assume the post of Hubei Provincial Party Secretary, taking charge of financial funds related to the Three Gorges Project.
Chinese Communist Party elder Song Ping has passed away at the age of 109. Xinhua News Agency reported that Hu Jintao sent a wreath to express his condolences.
Wen Jiabao visited the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences in Beijing. The license plate of the vehicle he was riding in was identified as belonging to the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, sparking speculation about connections between party elders and the military.
In January of this year, Wen Jiabao personally met with Foreign Minister Wang Yi several times, demanding the clearance of internal hazards within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the covert pipelines laundering money for red families.
Wu Bangguo, former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, passed away in Beijing, China, on October 8, 2024, at the age of 84.
On the eve of the 18th National Congress, retired party elders expressed strong opposition to Wang Yang and Li Yuanchao, ultimately blocking both from the Standing Committee, which allowed the Jiang Zemin faction to hold a majority of seats at the Standing Committee level.