As the person who was responsible for all the achievements, Wu had participated in many national and party congresses and had been received by all the CCP General Secretaries including Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping.

"Look at Jiang Zemin, he’s nearly 100 years old. There’s also a high demand for organs in the Chinese market,” he added, referring to a former CCP leader.

Human Rights Council event a decade ago, Spanish human rights lawyer Carlos Iglesias was set to make a three-minute speech condemning the former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin for ordering the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999.

Since the regime’s former leader Jiang Zemin started the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, thousands of adherents have been persecuted to death, while tens of thousands have been kept imprisoned, according to the Falun Dafa Information Center.

Then-CCP head Jiang Zemin ordered for the eradication of the practice after the number of its adherents surpassed the membership of the Party, claiming it was “a threat to the country’s stability.” 

CCP leader at the time, Jiang Zemin, personally ordered to "eliminate Falun Gong within three months," and he had a special organization—the 610 Office—set up for the sole purpose of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.

(Right) Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (C) with Chinese President Jiang Zemin (L) inspect a guard-of-honor during a welcoming ceremony at the east gate of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 13, 1998.

On July 20, 1999, Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin launched a campaign of persecution and extensive propaganda against Falun Gong and its tens of millions of adherents due to the popularity of the practice that was not under the control of the

Jiang Zemin, the former leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), had perceived Falun Gong’s presence as a threat to the Party’s rule, and launched an unprecedented campaign to eradicate the practice in 1999.

Perceiving this to be a threat to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) grip on power, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched a brutal persecution targeting the practice and its adherents in July 1999.

(Pierre-Antoine Donnet/AFP/Getty Images) Of course, Deng did not live to see more than the enrichment of the first few, and his two immediate successors, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, continued to emphasize the importance of a few getting rich first.

It gained prominence under former Party head Jiang Zemin, who stacked the PLAC and other important CCP agencies with his allies. In 2014, the CCDI placed Zhou Yongkang, then-CCDI head and a close associate of Jiang Zemin, under investigation.

Zhao was known to have close ties to former Party paramount leader Jiang Zemin. A faction loyal to Jiang is opposed to Xi’s leadership.

According to Lam, this muted opposition could explain the presence of a long paragraph in the communique “devoted to the policies of ex-presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, who are well-known as Xi’s political rivals.”

Threatened by its popularity, the CCP under then-paramount leader Jiang Zemin launched a systematic elimination campaign against the practice in 1999, utilizing the entire state apparatus.

Zemin, the CCP would send a large special interest group to lobby the State Council, the Ministry of Justice, the courts and all relevant personnel, and would make great concessions on trade in order to evade further detailed investigation on Jiang Zemin

“One major question, it seems to me, is that usually there is one individual designee—in this case, [former head of the CCP] Jiang Zemin, who is about to expire due to advanced age,” he wrote.

However, the former leader of China's communist regime, Jiang Zemin, initiated a campaign of persecution against Falun Gong in 1999.

That was when then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin, fearing Falun Dafa's immense popularity, launched a violent campaign of persecution that has involved systematic and widespread arrest and imprisonment, torture, and even forced harvesting

Since he took power in 2012, Xi has been struggling to get rid of the restraints of the former CCP head Jiang Zemin and his allies. Zeng Qinghong, a close ally of Jiang, apparently is one of Xi’s top adversaries.

He rose to prominence when Jiang Zemin was head of the CCP. Liu established himself as China’s "Godfather of IT" by serving as president of the Taishan Association and as chairman of the China Entrepreneur Club (CEC).

The brutal campaign was launched by the former Party leader Jiang Zemin in 1999, who deemed the popularity of the spiritual practice to be a threat to his power.

However, experts also identify Zhang as an associate of former communist party head Jiang Zemin, whom is involved in a factional battle with current party leader Xi Jinping According to Brookings Institution China academic Cheng Li, in a Nov. 26 Financial

(Screenshot from YouTube) The other was of former Commerce Minister Bo Xilai acknowledging that former CCP leader Jiang Zemin had issued commands to kill Falun Gong adherents and sell their organs for profit.

Sun owed his political rise to former CCP leader Jiang Zemin. Sun was the deputy director of the notorious “610 Office,” a Gestapo-like agency under the Public Security Ministry that was created for persecuting the spiritual group Falun Gong.

In 1999, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin ordered the withdrawal of all such support, and on July 20 of that year, the CCP launched a national campaign in an effort to eliminate the practice.

This is also the first time a Chinese top leader has visited the Three Gorges Dam since 1997 when Jiang Zemin and Li Peng attended the damming ceremony.

In 1999, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin ordered the eradication of the practice, after the number of practitioners surpassed the membership of the Party.

(Screenshot by The Epoch Times) Lord David Alton, British House of Lords, said, "it was Jiang Zemin the former leader of the CCP who gave orders to eradicate Falun Gong and in his words 'by any means necessary,' and he set-up the 610 Office, which was

(L–R) Chinese leader Xi Jinping, with former Chinese Communist Party leaders Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, attend a military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, on Sept. 3, 2015.