Li Keqiang presided over the meeting of 10,000 people during a sensitive period. Ministers of national defense and public security attended the meeting (photo)

On the 25th, Li Keqiang urgently held the “National Video and Telephone Conference on Stabilizing the Economic Market” and addressed all about 100,000 cadres at the provincial, municipal and county levels. (Image credit: Getty Images)

[See China May 26, 2022 News](See a comprehensive report by Chinese reporter Yang Tianlong) The Premier of the State Council of the Communist Party of ChinaLi KeqiangOn Wednesday (25th), the “National Stabilization” was urgently held.economyThe “Big Market Video and Telephone Conference” was attended by about 100,000 cadres at the provincial, municipal, and county levels. The most notable among them were the generals of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army,Ministry of DefenselongWei FengheAttended the meeting as a state councilor, currently deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the CPC Central Committee, state councilor and concurrentlyMinistry of Public SecurityministerZhao KezhiHe also attended the meeting, the scale of which and the presence of the ministers of national defense and public security made the meeting extremely unusual.

The theme of the ASAP meeting did not go beyond the content of economic development, but it was reminiscent of the “Seven Thousand People’s Conference” held by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Beijing from January 11 to February 7, 1962, with the consent of Mao Zedong. At that time, there were 7,113 people in charge of the central government and various central departments, central bureaus, provinces, cities, prefectures, and counties, as well as responsible cadres from some important factories, mines, and troops. The meeting mainly discussed the “Great Leap Forward” and the Great Famine. issues, advocating “criticism and self-criticism”, and “democratic centralism”. During the meeting, Liu Shaoqi, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the State, attributed the cause of the famine during the three-year difficult period to “one-third of natural disasters and seven of man-made disasters”. After the 7,000-person meeting, the problem of the famine in mainland China eased, Mao Zedong took a back seat, and Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping presided over the daily affairs of the central government.

The economic situation is grim similar to the situation before the “Seven Thousand People’s Congress” in the history of the CCP

According to various media reports, Li Keqiang emphasized economic difficulties during the meeting. In March this year, especially since April, indicators such as employment, industrial production, electricity consumption and freight transportation have dropped significantly. The difficulties are in some aspects and to a certain extent more serious than the epidemic in 2020. The impact is still big; it is required to seize the time window, and strive to bring the economy back to the normal track, so as to ensure market entities, employment and people’s livelihood; to complete the task of economic and social development while doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control, fully grasp, prevent One-on-one, one-size-fits-all.

Li Keqiang demanded that all market entities such as state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and foreign enterprises should be treated equally, and further open up the connection between upstream and downstream of the logistics and industrial chain, and promote the resumption of work and production. The content of Li Keqiang’s speech did not exceed the content of his past economic requirements, but it is relatively rare to directly address a meeting of about 100,000 county-level cadres.

The Chinese Minister of Defense and Public Security made a very rare appearance at the meeting

In the circular issued by the Xinhua News Agency of the Communist Party of China, it is pointed out that the senior officials involved, including the Vice Premier of the State Council of the Communist Party of China Han Zheng, who attended the meeting were Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, Hu Chunhua, Liu He, State Councilors Wei Fenghe, Wang Yong, Xiao Jie, Zhao Ke Zhi et al.

Among them, Wei Fenghe is the current PLA general and defense minister, Zhao Kezhi is currently the deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the CPC Central Committee, state councilor and minister of the Ministry of Public Security, and serves as the fifth deputy head of the Central Leading Group for Hong Kong and Macao Work. Identity is very sensitive.

After the “Seven Thousand People’s Congress” in the history of the CCP, Mao Zedong’s three red flags were still affirmed basically. The oral report of Liu Shaoqi, who was the second-in-command of the CCP at that time, still respected Mao Zedong, but Liu Shaoqi’s oral report also caused confusion between Liu and Mao. A real disagreement arose. It is generally believed that the conflict between Party Chairman Mao Zedong and State President Liu Shaoqi during the congress finally paved the way for the upcoming Cultural Revolution in 1966. According to Wen Jiangqing’s statement in the early days of the Cultural Revolution: “The 7,000-member assembly held a sigh of relief until the Cultural Revolution.” This shows Mao Zedong’s extreme dissatisfaction with the 7,000-member assembly.