Xinhua News Agency released a State Council appointment and removal announcement, stating that Cai Qi concurrently serves as the President of the Chinese Academy of Governance, and Chen Xi no longer holds the position.
Overseas political commentators Cai Shengkun and President Lu disclosed that Chen Xi has been drastically demoted to the vice-ministerial level.
The website of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision reported that Wei Xiaodong, Chairman of the Beijing Municipal Political Consultative Conference, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation.
The CCP Central Committee Party School held the graduation ceremony for the second batch of classes of the spring semester. Official releases showed that Cai Qi has taken over the position of President of the Party School.
Gong Qihuang has been relieved of his duties as president of Peking University. The official announcement made no mention of any new appointment, and he will be succeeded by Gao Song.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has issued a dual expulsion order against Zhang Yaoxue, who served at Tsinghua University for a long time. The Chinese Academy of Engineering subsequently revoked his academician title.
The Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee made a rare decision to swap the ministerial positions of Li Ganjie, then head of the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee, and Shi Taifeng, head of the United Front Work Department of the CCP Central Committee.
Peng Jinhui, Deputy Head of the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee, has been transferred away from the department to serve as Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Cao Xingxin, former Vice General Manager of China Unicom who long served in the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee, was subjected to disciplinary review and investigation, and later sentenced to 12 years in prison.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) announced that Zhang Jianchun, former Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the CCP Central Committee, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation, making him the earliest official to fall in this round of organizational system purging.