By The Epoch Times-November 9, 2021
Amid the Chinese regime’s ramping up of its largest leadership reshuffle before the 20th National Congress, the recent appointments of two Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) cadres aroused great concern in the international community over China’s worsening human rights situation.
The National Congress is theoretically the highest body of the CCP and is held once every five years, at which changes of top-level Party leadership and Party Constitution are discussed and finalized. The 20th National Congress is to be held in the fall of 2022, with the exact date not announced.
On Oct. 19, the CCP’s Organization Department, which oversees senior staffing and is one of the most powerful organs of the CCP, announced the promotion of Wang Junzheng to the post of the Party Secretary in Tibet, the highest post in the region. Wang was the Party Secretary of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), a paramilitary group in Xinjiang, accused of serious human rights violations, before this promotion. Read More