CCP State Security Minister Faces Imminent Retribution

Chen Yixin is one of the key “successors” of the CCP’s “Blood-Debt Faction” headed by Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong. (Composite image)

[People News] Chen Yixin is one of the important “successors” of the “Blood-Debt Faction” led by Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong. (Note 1)

1. Chen Yixin’s Overwhelming Lust for Power

Chen Yixin is a member of the 20th CCP Central Committee, a member of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (PLAC), and serves as Minister and Party Secretary of the Ministry of State Security (MSS).

According to insiders within the CCP, Chen is an intensely power-hungry man. In recent years, as the CCP expanded its persecution of Falun Gong abroad, Chen has been a major instigator behind the scenes. He wanted to use this to win favor and rewards from Xi Jinping—an explanation that carries some weight.

Before the 20th Party Congress, Chen Yixin was a key figure whom Xi had placed inside the PLAC. In March 2018, Xi promoted him to PLAC member and secretary-general.

While serving there, Chen Yixin’s prominence even eclipsed that of then-Politburo member and PLAC secretary Guo Shengkun. At the time, Chen’s goal was likely to secure a Politburo seat and the PLAC secretary post at the 20th Congress. Yet, at that congress, the then-Minister of State Security Chen Wenqing—one year younger—was unexpectedly promoted to Politburo member and PLAC secretary, becoming a vice-national-level official and entering the ranks of “party-and-state leaders,” while Chen Yixin was left only as Minister of State Security.

Power-obsessed Chen was naturally dissatisfied and wanted to make a name for himself to rise one more rung.

Sources say Chen Yixin also competes with Li Qiang. The two are the same age and were both subordinates of Xi when he was Zhejiang Party Secretary. Li Qiang is now a Politburo Standing Committee member and premier, while Chen is merely a minister under him. Though it is hard for Chen Yixin to catch up politically, he still hopes to climb one more step before retirement and become a vice-national-level official.

To that end, Chen racks his brains daily for some “special achievement” to use as a steppingstone.

The MSS had long been a very secretive agency. Yet since Chen’s arrival, it has been unusually high-profile. He launched the ministry’s official WeChat account, publishing commentaries on sensitive topics—economics, diplomacy, finance—stealing the spotlight from the propaganda, foreign-affairs, and financial-regulatory systems. He also called for “national anti-spy mobilization,” launching a so-called “New Five Anti Campaign” (anti-subversion, anti-hegemony, anti-separatism, anti-terrorism, and anti-espionage), sowing fear and resentment.

Failing to earn major credit domestically, Chen turned his sights overseas—targeting Falun Gong abroad—to accumulate political capital through an escalated persecution campaign.

2. Why Did Chen Yixin Target Overseas Falun Gong?

This traces back to Xi’s relationship with Jiang and Zeng.

After taking power in 2012, Xi Jinping launched an anti-corruption “tiger-hunting” drive to wrest the highest authority from former dictator Jiang Zemin and his strategist Zeng Qinghong. During Xi’s first term, 440 vice-ministerial-and-above officials and other central-managed cadres were investigated—most of them Jiang-Zeng appointees.

By 2017, Xi’s campaign had drawn close to the Jiang-Zeng core, but at that critical juncture, he compromised for the sake of “preserving the Party,” refraining from arresting them.

Having escaped catastrophe, Jiang and Zeng exploited Xi’s “save-the-Party” mindset to bind him tightly to their anti-Falun Gong wagon.

During Xi’s first term, Jiang and Zeng installed their protégé Meng Jianzhu as Politburo member and PLAC secretary to continue the persecution policy. In Xi’s second term, they arranged for another ally, Guo Shengkun, to hold the same post.

Xi’s first term goal was to seize military power from Jiang; his second term goal was to seize political-legal control from Jiang and Zeng.

In March 2018 he appointed his trusted Chen Yixin as PLAC secretary-general to help clean house within the security apparatus.

The Jiang-Zeng clique feared their “Blood-Debt Faction” would be brought to justice. Whatever purges Xi conducted, they ensured he remained bound to the Falun Gong persecution wagon.

When Meng Jianzhu was PLAC secretary, just before the 19th Congress, he ordered a nationwide “Knock-on-the-Door Campaign” against Falun Gong. Under Guo Shengkun before the 20th Congress came another nationwide “Zero-Out Campaign.”

Attention-hungry Chen Yixin seized the spotlight. Guo Shengkun let him speak and write everywhere about “suppressing Falun Gong,” making him the operational chief of the “Zero-Out Campaign.”

Blinded by power, Chen persecuted Falun Gong with full force.

In 2020, under his direction, the PLAC issued Document No. 101 “On Clearing Up Falun Gong Practitioners,” launching the nationwide “Zero-Out Campaign.”

This campaign harmed many people.

Still, many officials who understood the truth of Falun Gong merely went through the motions. Faked reports from lower levels delighted Chen Yixin, who thought himself truly effective.

After the 20th Congress, Chen became Minister of State Security. With China’s global spy network under his command, he set out to launch a “Zero-Out Campaign” against Falun Gong overseas—imagining that if he could “defeat Falun Gong abroad,” he would achieve a major merit.

CCP insiders reveal that the recent attacks on Falun Gong abroad follow a systematic plan directed by the Public Security and State Security ministries, with Chen Yixin as the chief mastermind behind the scenes.

3. The CCP Escalates Its Transnational Repression of Falun Gong

In recent years the CCP’s transnational repression has escalated to the point of madness, manifesting in the following ways:

— “Silencing” plans for Falun Gong practitioners whose organs were harvested.

Falun Gong practitioner Cheng Peiming, a survivor of forced organ harvesting who fled to the U.S., publicly described his ordeal in Washington, drawing international attention.

On October 31, 2024, an anonymous Chinese cyber researcher told the Falun Dafa Information Center that CCP leaders view Cheng as a “major national-security threat,” ordering Heilongjiang security authorities to devise a “three-step silencing plan”:

1. Lure him home: mobilize friends and relatives to pressure Cheng to return to China.

2. Force retraction: coerce his family to fly to the U.S. to threaten him into withdrawing his testimony, using their safety as leverage.

3. Assassinate: if the first two steps fail, carry out a murder in the U.S. and stage it as suicide or a car accident.
   Sources say the CCP declared it would “kill him outright if necessary, making it look like suicide.”

— Using U.S. mainstream media to attack Shen Yun and Falun Gong.

Shen Yun Performing Arts, founded by Falun Gong practitioners in New York in 2006, aims to revive China’s divine pre-communist culture through pure and beautiful art. It has performed over 8,200 shows in 200+ cities on five continents for 12 million people, becoming the fastest-growing arts company in the world.

Since August 2024, The New York Times has run a series of 12 articles attacking Shen Yun and Falun Gong.

On January 6, 2025, the U.S.-based World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong received intelligence from Beijing insiders stating that the NY Times attack campaign was part of the CCP’s strategic operations against America, “executed according to the plans of the Public Security Ministry and Minister of State Security Chen Yixin.”

— 193 anonymous death threats targeting Falun Gong.

Theaters receiving bomb threats included Washington’s Kennedy Center, Atlanta Symphony Hall, Bridges Auditorium in Claremont (CA), Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, Zenith de Dijon in France, New Victoria Theatre in Woking (U.K.), Grand Theatre in Łódź (Poland), and Keelung Performing Arts Center in Taiwan.

On September 6, 11, and 12, 2025, emails falsely using The Epoch Times name were sent to the White House, Justice Department, CIA, FBI, U.S. Park Police, and Lincoln Memorial, issuing bomb and shooting threats.

According to the Falun Dafa Information Center, from March 2024 to October 16, 2025, there were 193 anonymous threat incidents against Falun Gong, Shen Yun, and their supporters.

— Using CCP agents to carry out transnational repression.

On May 26, 2023, Los Angeles pro-CCP community leader Chen Jun and his bodyguard Lin Feng were arrested by the FBI. Acting under PRC official orders, they bribed an IRS agent (actually an FBI undercover operative) to try to revoke Shen Yun’s non-profit status in order to “bring down Falun Gong” in America.

Chen was sentenced to 20 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $50,000 fine for acting as a foreign agent and bribery; Lin Feng received 16 months.

These transnational repression operations likely involve the MSS, Public Security Ministry, United Front Work Department, CCP hackers, and agents acting in concert—with Minister Chen Yixin as the chief director behind them.

4. Chen Yixin Sought Promotion Through Persecuting Falun Gong—But Chose the Wrong Target

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a high-level Buddhist practice first introduced in Changchun by Mr. Li Hongzhi on May 13, 1992. Renowned for improving health and purifying the mind, it spread rapidly through mainland China’s 32 provinces, regions, and municipalities, as well as Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and worldwide.

Since Jiang Zemin launched the persecution on July 20, 1999, the CCP has spent 26 years waging a relentless campaign—but failed to crush Falun Gong. Instead, the practice has flourished in 156 countries and regions across Asia, Europe, the Americas, Oceania, and Africa.

Why can’t the CCP destroy Falun Gong?

Because Falun Gong benefits individuals, families, communities, nations, and humanity—with a hundred advantages and no harm; because it is a once-in-millennia righteous way, a high-virtue Dafa, a great Buddha Law.

Chen Yixin’s attempt to “zero out” Falun Gong in China—imagining no one among 1 billion people would practice—was delusional. His plan to “zero out” Falun Gong abroad was even more absurd. His actions stemmed not from understanding truth but from an evil obsession with promotion.

After 26 years of persecution and countless lies, the CCP came to believe its own propaganda—that “a lie repeated ten thousand times becomes truth.” In the end, even those who created the lies were fooled by them.

Judgments based on lies are absurd and can only harm others, oneself, and future generations.

Conclusion

Since ancient times, those who persecute the Buddha Law have committed sins boundless in magnitude.

Before Chen Yixin, senior officials of the CCP’s “Blood-Debt Faction” who zealously followed Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong in persecuting Falun Gong—such as former Politburo Standing Committee member and Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission secretary Zhou Yongkang, former PLAC secretary-general Zhou Benshun, and former “610 Office” director Fu Zhenghua—have all been imprisoned in deep cells, “repaying their debts.”

Yet the power-crazed Chen Yixin has followed in Zhou Yongkang’s footsteps, treading a path of self-destruction. Awaiting him are either a dark prison or disaster from heaven and man—his end will certainly be tragic.

Note:
(1) According to incomplete statistics from Minghui.org, between 2018 and 2022, during Chen Yixin’s tenure as member and secretary-general of the CCP Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, at least 551 Falun Gong practitioners were persecuted to death. Chen Yixin bears inescapable leadership responsibility for these deaths under his watch.

(The Daijiyuan)△