Officials Focus Only on Amassing Wealth; Xi Uses This Tactic to Forcibly Extract Political Loyalty

Many villas owned by corrupt CCP officials are piled with cash measured in tons. (Online image)

[People News] According to incomplete statistics, over the more than 70 years of CCP rule, nearly 100 million Chinese people, like Yu Menglong, have died under the CCP’s tyranny. Tyranny has caused the Chinese people to no longer place their hopes in the CCP government, and CCP officials themselves have long since stopped believing in communism. Taking advantage of the CCP’s dictatorial autocracy, they frantically line their own pockets, and the officialdom has long been rotten to the core. Perhaps Xi Jinping has seen through this reality yet has no solution, and thus, with no better option, has repeatedly shouted slogans about “self-revolution” to threaten officials, forcibly extracting the political loyalty he so desperately craves.

Recently, the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) published an article lavishly praising Xi Jinping, mentioning “self-revolution” 50 times in succession. Since Xi took office, he has for many years incessantly called for “self-revolution,” but after all these years, whose lives have actually been “revolutionized”? What problems have been solved? This is a question that Xi Jinping himself恐怕也无法回答—likely cannot answer either.

On December 29, the CCP’s party mouthpiece People’s Daily published an article署名—bylined as—“CCDI and National Supervisory Commission Organs.” The article strongly lauded Xi Jinping. Spanning more than 4,000 characters, it mentioned “self-revolution” at least 50 times, claiming that the CCP had “eliminated serious hidden dangers existing within the Party, the state, and the military, and fundamentally reversed the lax and soft conditions in governing the Party,” and demanded that the entire Party maintain consistency with the Xi core “in thought, politics, and action,” and so on.

The article inadvertently exposed the fact that within the CCP and the military there exist substantial forces that refuse to acknowledge the Xi core and do not maintain consistency with it—in other words, they lack absolute political loyalty to the Xi core, and quite possibly many people have already developed divided loyalties.

Looking back at the period since Xi took office, earlier references to “self-revolution” were mainly aimed at corruption within officialdom. After Xi came to power at the CCP’s 18th National Congress in 2012, he launched a massive anti-corruption campaign, thereby winning considerable public support. Five years later, at the 19th National Congress, the authorities went into full gear to sing the praises of Xi’s anti-corruption achievements, proclaiming that Xi had “focused on reducing the existing stock of corruption and resolutely curbed incremental corruption; established an effective mechanism of ‘not daring to be corrupt, being unable to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt,’” and that “the overwhelming momentum in the anti-corruption struggle has been formed and consolidated.”

However, the official figures released below have in fact told the outside world plainly that anti-corruption has not only failed to achieve or consolidate any overwhelming victory, but has instead led to even more corruption: in 2023, 45 centrally managed officials fell; in 2024, 60; and in 2025, 65 officials fell, setting yet another record high.

This phenomenon of senior officials continually falling stands in stark contrast to Xi Jinping’s claims over the past decade-plus that the anti-corruption campaign has achieved victory, and has also triggered doubts from the outside world about the anti-corruption effort.

Now, with the CCP’s CCDI mentioning “self-revolution” 50 times in its article praising Xi Jinping, some commentators believe that the CCP’s public promotion of such a ferocious slogan indicates that internal CCP infighting may become even more intense next year. There are reports that Xi, unable to obtain loyalty from his subordinates, has fallen into extreme anxiety. His incessant hoisting of the banner of “self-revolution” is very likely an attempt by Xi Jinping to use it to threaten officials and extract political loyalty.

Current-affairs commentator Li Linyi told The Epoch Times that in the first five years after Xi took office, he relied on anti-corruption to purge political enemies, taking down major “tigers” such as Zhou Yongkang, Guo Boxiong, Xu Caihou, and Ling Jihua. However, after Xi’s own faction fully took power at the CCP’s 20th National Congress, the Party, government, and military systems again experienced large-scale collapses, with many of Xi’s close confidants falling. This shows that the so-called “self-revolution” is like child’s play: as long as the authoritarian system remains unchanged, those who rise up will be just as corrupt.

Yuan Hongbing, an Australia-based scholar familiar with the inner workings of the CCP system, recently told Vision China that Xi Jinping is now forced to turn the blade inward and carry out “self-revolution,” conducting across-the-board reviews and purges of the Xi faction that he personally cultivated.

Yuan Hongbing pointed out that communist ideology has long since completely collapsed in both theory and practice. Today, tens of millions of CCP officials no longer truly believe in communism. All CCP officials are corrupt without exception; no functionary is clean. Under Xi Jinping’s erratic and misguided governance, a premonition that the CCP is heading toward its end has already become a consensus deep in the hearts of CCP officials. △