Management of the Communist Party’s top academy has been told to take action to ensure staff – and former staff – remain loyal and to step up scrutiny of employees’ overseas travel, after the party expelled an outspoken retired professor.
Get the latest insights and analysis from our Global Impact newsletter on the big stories originating in China. The school where party officials are trained also said the travel plans of staff applying to go abroad for personal reasons would be put under greater scrutiny. Restrictions on overseas travel by party cadres introduced a few years ago require them to apply for permission for their trips, which will only be granted if they have a valid reason. He told the school’s managers to ensure staff were honest about why they wanted to go abroad.
According to the recording, Cai proposed in a speech that the party’s top echelon replace its leader, though she did not name general secretary Xi Jinping. She also took aim at the political restrictions in the country and described the party as a “political zombie”.