Li Zhanshu · Full chronicle and history

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Jiang Hongwei, Deputy Secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission and Deputy Director of the Provincial Supervisory Commission, has fallen from power. This is seen as a key breakthrough by the anti-Xi alliance attempting to pry open old accounts from the period when Li Zhanshu governed Heilongjiang.

The New York Times published a report confirming, based on internal Deutsche Bank documents, that Li Qianxin is the daughter of Li Zhanshu, and mentioned her role in pushing the bank to hire her younger sister.

Li Zhanshu was elected Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress.

Li Zhanshu entered the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), ranking third.

According to online rumors, in March 2015 Cao Qing, director of the CCP Central Guard Bureau, was transferred to deputy commander of the Beijing Military Region, while deputy director Wang Qing was transferred out in the same batch, and Li Zhanshu concurrently served as first political commissar of the Guard Bureau; the stated reason for his transfer was that Guard Bureau personnel had smuggled ivory during an overseas trip and the matter was leaked to foreign media, and the authorities never determined that Cao Qing himself was involved in the case.

Apple Daily reported that Li Zhanshu's daughter, Li Qianxin, was already serving as Vice President of CITIC Capital in her twenties, and cited Li Zhanshu's poetry as evidence.

Following Ling Plan's departure, Li Zhanshu officially assumed office as the Director of the CCP Central Committee Office on September 1, 2012, stepping into the core power circle of the General Office in advance.

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.

Then-Guizhou Provincial Party Secretary Li Zhanshu left Guizhou, subsequently took up a post in Beijing, and that same September took over the CCP Central Committee General Office.

During Li Zhanshu's tenure as director of the CCP Central Committee General Office, the General Office successively issued rules targeting retired cadres, requiring that they not hold private gatherings, not make reckless comments about the Central Committee, not interfere in personnel arrangements, and that retired cadres obtain approval from the General Office before leaving Beijing.

The Sun reported that Li Qianxin, daughter of Guizhou Provincial Party Secretary Li Zhanshu, attended the Guizhou investment promotion conference held in Hong Kong.