Viewing the immense popularity of Falun Gong as an ideological threat to its atheistic authoritarianism, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin in 1999 unilaterally launched a campaign to demonise and eliminate the practice and its practitioners.

In 1999, practitioners became the target of a nationwide persecution campaign launched by former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who established the Gestapo-like office known as the “610 Office” to execute his campaign of elimination.

“But Jiang Zemin was actually afraid of the discipline of this group. Bad people are really afraid to see good people.

An Image Game of the Princelings Shi explained that it started when former CCP (Chinese Communist Party) leader Jiang Zemin encouraged Chinese princelings (children of CCP founding cadres and veterans of the Red Army) to engage in entertainment industries

Qiu Bojun: Winning an Award Personally Delivered by Jiang Zemin In the late 1980s, Zhang Xuanlong decided to build and sell his own software.

The investigation led to the arrest of three top officials who were members of the Shanghai Gang, a political faction led by former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.

It’s too early to conclude what the intention is, but it's possible that Xi wanted to use the scandal to direct his dissatisfaction at Jiang Zemin, he said.

Zemin and Zeng Qinghong.

The anti-Xi screed, posted on Jan. 19 on the China-sponsored 6park site, appears to be the work of several members of the Communist Party’s Shanghai Gang faction, headed by former leader Jiang Zemin.

Perceiving the influence of the meditation system as an ideological threat to its authoritarian rule, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin initiated a violent persecution campaign in July 1999 to eliminate Falun Gong.

In the 2000s, former CCP leader Jiang Zemin called for the Party to represent the entrepreneurial class, who were once considered enemies of the people. More recently, CCP branches in private business have increased dramatically.

It reported directly to then-leader Jiang Zemin and became the main weapon in the regime's struggle against adherents.

Zhao most recently headed the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the driving force behind Xi's campaign to rid the Party of political enemies—namely officials still loyal to former CCP leader Jiang Zemin.

Fearing its immense popularity, on July 20, 1999, then-Party leader Jiang Zemin launched a campaign to smear Falun Gong to justify a campaign of violence against them.

The practice’s popularity drew the ire of former Chinese regime leader Jiang Zemin, who viewed it as a threat to both his rule and the Communist Party’s ideologies.

During the same time period, the Chinese communist regime saw the net number of countries more susceptible to its influence grow to 67 in 2012 from 33 in 1989 under former Chinese leaders Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao.

Zemin.

Linda Jiang contributed to this report.

After Xi came to power in November 2012, Wang became the chief architect of an anti-corruption campaign that felled many of Xi's political rivals, such as officials loyal to former Party leader Jiang Zemin.

The third phase was ruled by Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao; and two other CCP leaders were subsumed under Deng. The fourth phase is currently ruled by Xi.

Former CCP Chairman Jiang Zemin launched a nationwide persecution against Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. When the persecution first began, there were around 70 to 100 million people practicing Falun Gong in China, Ye said.

They all know that there is infighting between Xi Jinping and a faction aligned with past CCP leader Jiang Zemin. They chose to do nothing so to make the central authorities the target of public anger.

With the number of practitioners greater than the number of CCP members at the time, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin began a campaign to eradicate Falun Gong.

In contrast to Xi Jinping's order that out-of-school institutions must register as non-profits, education policies under the former CCP leader Jiang Zemin were to promote the "industrialization of education," in which the products of education had to

The 14 Chinese officials listed in the petition include former CCP leader Jiang Zemin, the main perpetrator of the persecution campaign.

Zeng is an influential CCP "princeling"—the term refers to the children of veteran revolutionaries and senior CCP cadres—and a staunch partner of ex-CCP leader Jiang Zemin.

Jiang Zemin, the Chinese leader, reached full power just as Falun Gong began spreading quickly. This was unfortunate for the practice, because Jiang felt threatened by the popularity of Falun Gong.

But then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin perceived that popularity as a threat to the regime’s rule, and on July 20, 1999, launched an Cultural Revolution-style campaign aimed at eradicating the practice.

However, former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin deemed Falun Dafa's popularity a threat to the regime's authoritarian rule and launched a violent persecution campaign in July 1999 aimed at eradicating the practice.