China's Hubei, Wuhan Communist Party chiefs removed amid epidemic

Thompson-Reuters ^ | Thursday, 13 February 2020 06:44 GMT | By Se Young Lee and David Stanway

[Red Badger]

BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Feb 13 (Reuters) - China's Communist Party has replaced the party heads in the coronavirus stricken province of Hubei and its capital Wuhan, state media said on Thursday, reporting the most high profile officials to be dismissed in the wake of the epidemic.

The removal of Jiang Chaoliang, the leading Communist Party official of Hubei province, and Ma Guoqiang, his counterpart in Wuhan, follows the dismissal of two provincial health officials on Tuesday, and is part of a wider effort by Beijing to remove bureaucrats it accuses of shirking their duties.

The central government has set up a special cabinet task force under Premier Li Keqiang to handle the crisis, and the new appointments in Hubei suggest that China's senior leaders are taking greater control.

Shanghai mayor Ying Yong has been appointed as the new secretary of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, replacing Jiang, the official Xinhua news agency said without explaining why Jiang was removed.

Ying worked closely with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the latter's time as party boss and governor of Zhejiang province, which neighbours Shanghai.

Wuhan party chief Ma has been replaced by Wang Zhonglin, party boss of Jinan, the capital city of eastern Shandong province, Xinhua reported separately.

Officials in Hubei have been heavily criticised for their handling of the epidemic in a province of almost 60 million people. The outbreak began in Wuhan late last year, and has spread throughout China, killing more than 1,000 and infecting tens of thousands across the country.

[bigbob]

Removed from the planet, that would be.

[Red Badger]

Sudden case of lead poisoning?.............

[samtheman]

Zotted from earth.

[VAFreedom]

the virus is doing the job that kmt/world could not do, the number of cases jumped 14,000 in one day? i guess they’re trying to get the number closer to the truth

[pepsionice]

I would use the example of the Chernobyl episode. For roughly 24 hours....virtually every bit of info was kept within the operational circle of Chernobyl. It took around a week for the Central Committee (the club who ran the Union) to figure out the whole story, the danger, and where things were leading onto.

I think the same thing has occurred in Wuhan, and deceit has been given to the Central Committee of China. My guess is that they’ve been warned by the industrial folks that production (of any type) in Wuhan....will not be anywhere near 100-percent for the next several months, and in the case of medical production (drugs)...it might be a problem to restart this.

[hanamizu]

Shanghai mayor Ying Yong has been appointed as the new secretary of the Hubei Provincial Committee

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Congratulations, Mayor Ying! You’ve been promoted to Hubei Province where there have been over 1300 Wuhan Flu deaths (reported). You’ll like it much better than boring old Shanghai.

[null and void]

Stages of a project:

Wild enthusiasm,
Disillusionment,
Panic and hysteria,
Search for the guilty,
Punishment of the innocent,
Promotion of non-participants.

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[Red Badger]

He was Shanghaied...................

[bigbob]

I think we can assume they were not just transferred to “the War College”.

[sauropod]

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[woodbutcher1963]

Reminds me of he scene from various James Bond movies when one of the “bad guys” from Spector or elsewhere decides NOT to go along with the plot to take over the world.

“Mr. X will not be joining us for rest of his life.”

[littleharbour]

The more things change ...

[samtheman]

Well, at least he didn’t give himself a haircut in subsequent photo-croppings.