[People News] Today, December 15, according to reports from CCP party media, Dai Beifang, former Party Group Secretary and Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) of Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is currently under review and investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI). He has become the 60th centrally managed official publicly announced by the CCP this year to be under investigation.

Dai Beifang is only a sub–ministerial-level Party official and ordinarily would not attract much attention. However, because he was once a colleague of Ma Xingrui, former Party Secretary of Shenzhen, and because Ma Xingrui—now a member of the Politburo and former Party Secretary of Xinjiang—is currently in a state of disappearance and is suspected of having already fallen, Dai Beifang’s investigation has become a sensitive angle from which to observe Ma Xingrui’s fate.

Public information shows that Dai Beifang, now 69 years old, has served in Shenzhen’s officialdom for a long time since 1982. He successively held positions such as Minister of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, Minister of the Municipal Party Committee Organization Department, and Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee. From June 2015 to September 2020, he served as Chairman of the Shenzhen CPPCC. Ma Xingrui began serving as Party Secretary of Shenzhen in March 2015, and the two worked together for at least a year and a half.

Ma Xingrui left Guangdong in December 2021 to serve as Party Secretary of Xinjiang, and later became a member of the CCP’s core decision-making body, the Politburo. In July 2025, the CCP announced that he would no longer serve as Party Secretary of Xinjiang and would receive “other arrangements.” However, in the months that followed, not only was no new position announced, but over the past more than twenty days he has been absent from three important meetings he should have attended. One was the November 28 Politburo study session; another was the December Politburo meeting, where his name was also not reported; the third was the CCP Central Economic Work Conference on December 10. As a result, there has been widespread speculation that he has already been investigated.

There is a pattern in the CCP’s anti-corruption campaigns: to take down a core figure, they often start with his former subordinates, old colleagues, or relatives and friends, sometimes even causing abnormal deaths—what is called “cutting the skirt edges.”

Before Dai Beifang was officially announced to be under investigation, another of Ma Xingrui’s former subordinates, Ma Zhijun, Secretary of the Urumqi Political and Legal Affairs Commission, was announced by the CCP on November 10, 2025, to have fallen. Looking at Ma Zhijun’s résumé, he rose from relatively idle posts such as Deputy Director of the Hotan Regional Working Committee of the Xinjiang CPPCC to become a member of the Urumqi Municipal Party Standing Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and later was promoted to Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee—precisely during Ma Xingrui’s tenure as Party Secretary of Xinjiang.

After Ma Xingrui left Xinjiang, the Central Inspection Team of the sixth round entered Xinjiang in late July 2025 and worked in the inspected areas for about two and a half months. During that time, local senior officials successively fell or died under mysterious circumstances. For example, on November 1, 2025, Jin Zhizhen, Vice Chairman of the Xinjiang CPPCC, was investigated while in office; on November 3, Jiang Xinjun, Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission and Director of the Supervisory Commission of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, died suddenly.

And before Dai Beifang’s downfall, on September 18 of this year, Yao Ren, 62, former Standing Committee member of the Shenzhen CPPCC, was investigated. Meanwhile, Chen Rugui, former Mayor of Shenzhen and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People’s Congress, was investigated in June 2022. They had all worked together with Dai Beifang. This shows the CCP official corruption pattern of nest cases and serial cases.

Seen in this light, it is logically possible that the downfalls of Dai Beifang and Ma Zhijun could implicate Ma Xingrui. That is to say, their falls seem to further corroborate the possibility that Ma Xingrui has been investigated.

However, when announcing the charges against Dai Beifang, Ma Zhijun, and others, the CCP merely used the vague formulation that they were “suspected of serious violations of discipline and law,” without clearly specifying which disciplinary or legal provisions were involved or how serious the offenses were. When the author examined their common offenses, it was found that while holding local office, many of them—especially those who wielded power in political and legal affairs committees—had persecuted Falun Gong practitioners who practice Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, as well as other wronged members of the public.

(First published by People News)
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