Enter the Princelings to Ensure Continued Rule by the CCP

Exclusive Report of Boxun
Jul 29, 2009 – 2:16:22 PM

Though the 18th CCP Party Congress is still three years away, skirmishes on personnel matters have already begun. This time, however, something unprecedented has happened – the princeling clique, who has so far kept a low profile, are playing an unusually active role, as many of them believe the CCP is faced with such serious challenges that its continued rule is at stake and that the CCP rule is able to survive only if they, descendants of the CCP leaders, take over power from people like Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, who came from ordinary family background.
They made their high profile appearance in a most dramatic manner. Not long ago, a chorus made up with a score of adult children of dead military leaders and called itself “Descendants of Generals” gave its primary performance in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou. Their leader is a son of Marshal He Long, who was persecuted to death during the Cultural Revolution. The repertoire is nothing but “revolutionary songs”, in which they openly declare “Our fathers have pioneered the cause and we will carry it forward.” Many CCP top officials in Guangdong Province, led by Wang Yang, the First Secretary of the CCP Provincial Committee, were among the audience. From the beginning to the end of the concert, Wang put on an ostentatious display of total appreciation of the performance, visibly humming the songs.
This performance was the start of an offensive launched by the princeling clique on the cultural and propaganda fronts, after their successful occupation of important positions in the Chinese armed forces. It is well known that over 90% of China’s super rich are family members of CCP leaders and top officials; it is less well known that almost all high-ranking military officers came from families of CCP leaders and top officials, dead or alive. A recent case is the appointment of General Xu Yuanchao, a son of the famous military leader Xu Shiyou, as Commander of Jiangsu Military Command. Commentators believe this appointment marked the completion of princelings takeover of the PLA.
A general’s son is known to have said in Beijing that “Intellectuals may defame Chairman Mao the way they like, but in case they really want to do something, we’ll let them know which is mightier – the pen or the sword.” Such people believe that with them controlling the army, the People’s Republic will celebrate its 60th anniversary in peace, and there will be celebrations of its 100th or 120th anniversary.
(Translated by Franklin Ba)

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