CCP may destroy classified achieves when losing power

By Sheila/Boxun
Aug 6, 2010 – 12:47:33 AM

On July 21, 2010, the “National Work Conference on the History of the Chinese Communist Party” was held in Beijing’s Great Hall.

Participating in the conference were Party and state leaders including Chinese president Hu Jintao, Propaganda Chief Li Changchun, Vice-President Xi Jinping, Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection He Guoqiang, Deputy Secretary of the Central Commision for Discipline Inspection He Yong, Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee Ling Jihua, Director of Policy Research Office Wang Huning, Secretary General of the State Counci Ma
Kai. A meeting of this level has been rarely seen in recent years, and featured an important speech by Vice-President Xi Jinping.

Boxun reporter Liu in Beijing noted the strange atmosphere of the meeting, which focused on two important issues; oddly, these two central issues were not listed in the meeting agenda.

The first issue was how to deal with the autobiographies and memoirs of retired senior cadres. The recently-published “June 4 Diary,” allegedly written by 4th Chinese Premier Li Peng, caused an uproar as well as renewed attention to the Tiananmen Square incident. Speakers at the July 21 meeting discussed the implications of such memoirs and
in particular their feeling that memoirs could reveal “top-secret history” of the Party.

The second issue was considered so sensitive that it was not raised in the official speeches but was the nonetheless the constant subject of conversation among meeting participants: social unrest, and how to control information about it contained in Party historical documents.

Again, the underlying theme was “protecting the Party’s image,” and the concern that information in historical documents could damage the Party’s image as well as potentially incriminate individual Party members. The suggestion was even made to set a self-destruct device of some type which would be capable of eliminating the most sensitive
documents.

The conference also listed the important objective of strengthening the education of personnel assigned to guarding the most “secret” documents, as well as raising their Party status, in hopes of preventing “fatally sensitive” documents from being sold or leaked.

In stark contrast to the reporter’s observations on the meeting’s somber mood, Xinhua reported a “festive atmosphere.”

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