[Must see over the wall]What does Ying Yong’s transfer to an idle position mean to Xi? | Xi Jinping | The Epoch Times

[The Epoch Times, April 21, 2022]The Epoch Times combs the must-read articles for readers every day:

1.Xi Jinping encounters a counterattack within the party?Ying Yong sits on the idle post of the National People’s Congress
The three provincial Party secretaries who resigned at the end of March, Ying Yong, Chen Runer, and Wang Jianjun, were announced on April 20 to join the National People’s Congress as second-line positions. Among them, Ying Yong, who was regarded as a pro-Xi Jinping, was appointed as the deputy of the Constitution and Law Committee of the National People’s Congress. Chairman. Previous analysis said that if Ying Yong officially relegated to the second line, one possibility is that Xi Jinping encountered a counterattack within the party.

2.The tide of loyalty before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China?Analysis: The crisis is deep
The Guangxi Party Committee of the Communist Party of China recently held a meeting to determine the candidates for the 20th National Congress, and the statement of “always support and follow the leader” appeared in the draft of the meeting. Analysts believe that this may trigger a wave of praise for Xi before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

3.Zhou Xiaohui: Jingdong Express is blocked, Sun Chunlan and Li Qiang are not equal to Shanghai Beach
With Shanghai residents still facing lack of food and supplies, the launch of JD Express made people think they saw a glimmer of hope. Not long ago, JD.com recruited more than 3,000 couriers from all over the country to send more than 60 railway containers and 248 large trucks full of civilian materials to help Shanghai in the form of “suicide one-way logistics”. According to data released by JD.com, on April 15, the number of orders completed by JD.com in Shanghai increased by 67% compared with the previous day. With the continuous assistance of JD.com, the transportation capacity will be greatly increased, and the distribution volume will be gradually completed.

4.Chinese students’ remarks threaten to shatter the dream of studying in the United States?Hot discussion among Twitter friends
On April 19, the decision of Columbia University to revoke the admission qualification of a Chinese student for graduate school was widely circulated on Twitter, because the student repeatedly posted threatening remarks on WeChat, saying that he would buy a gun to kill Americans. Some commented that Zhang Xiaoning, the murderer who recently killed Li Jinjin, a well-known New York lawyer, entered the United States with a student visa (F1).

5.JD.com’s “suicide logistics” goes to Shanghai and people who are blocked sleep on the road
Recently, the “JD.com suicide logistics” screen has been swiped, and the mainland shopping website JD.com has mobilized at least 2,000 couriers to go to Shanghai to provide supplies to Shanghai citizens, but this time the assistance was coldly received. According to reports, the JD.com Shanghai Huashi sales department was closed by the city management, and some logistics personnel were refused to stay by the hotel, and they could only sleep on the road at night.

6.Submitting Uncle Xiaohuamei’s video to the authorities, the former media person was investigated
Earlier this month, former media person Zhao Lanjian sent the video “Uncle Xiaohuamei denies that the girl in the chain is Xiaohuamei” and sent it to the Supreme People’s Procuratorate as evidence for reporting. Since he went to Nujiang, he has received calls from the police in five provinces and cities, which put him under great pressure; on the 15th, he was investigated by the police in Feng County, Xuzhou for a whole day.

7.“Every family has a painful story” Shanghai people unite unprecedentedly due to anger
“Millions of people in Shanghai — young and old, rich and poor, liberals and conservatives — seem to be united by rising anger,” wrote Steven Jiang, CNN’s Beijing bureau chief.

8.[China Watch]The Spear of Extreme Epidemic Prevention and the Shield of the Three-Child Policy
Unlike most countries in the world, which adopt a mild epidemic prevention method of “coexisting with the virus”, the CCP insists on clearing the epidemic prevention, and rampantly and comprehensively shuts down the city, causing serious secondary disasters. Among them, the harm to children and pregnant women is of concern. But the three-child policy, which is also promoted by the CCP authorities, seems to contradict the current epidemic prevention. Observers believe that this conflict is an inevitable part of the CCP’s autocratic rule.

9.Unprecedented employment pressure for Chinese college graduates to break 10 million for the first time
According to figures released by the Ministry of Education of the Communist Party of China, the number of college graduates in 2022 will be about 10.76 million, 1.67 million more than the previous year, an increase of 18.37%, and a record high in both scale and increment. In order to relieve the pressure of employment, a large number of graduates choose to apply for civil service examinations, take part in the examinations prepared by institutions, or apply for postgraduate examinations.

10.China Post’s female reporter in China’s Weibo account was blocked for half an hour
Recently, American media reporters were dispatched to China as correspondents in China. She registered for a Weibo account, but was blocked in less than half an hour, and even her Taobao account was blocked for “serious improper registration”.

11.Experts on the difficulty of resuming work under the zero-clearing policy: Shanghai’s economy has been hit hard
The Shanghai government has recently issued guidelines for resuming work and production. Although key enterprises can produce in a closed loop, they still encounter many difficulties such as insufficient personnel, blocked logistics, and lack of raw materials.

12.China Eastern Airlines MU5735 air crash 30-day preliminary investigation report released
China Eastern Airlines MU5735 crashed in Guangxi a month ago, killing all 132 people on board. On April 20, the Civil Aviation Administration of China released a preliminary investigation report on the plane crash.

13.Analysis of Epidemic Reversal After Shanghai’s Default Clearing Period: Political Farce
After it was announced that Shanghai had set a date for social clearance, the epidemic situation turned around: the number of infected people in 8 districts continued to decline, while 6 districts were stable, and the number of people leaving the cabin exceeded the number of newly positive infected people. The analysis pointed out that the time for the CCP to achieve zero depends on its needs; epidemic prevention has become a political farce.

14.Wang Youqun: My Memories and Reflections on Sending a Letter to Wei Jianxing
On April 25, 1999, tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners visited Zhongnanhai in Beijing. This is the most peaceful and rational petition event in the 73 years since the founding of the Communist Party of China.

15.Analysis: Real estate slump in China’s small cities hits consumer confidence
China’s small cities are facing a widespread property recession that has eroded the wealth of tens of millions of households and dealt a blow to the fragile confidence of Chinese consumers, which in turn has dampened general consumer spending, according to Reuters.

Responsible editor: Fang Xiao