CCP Tightens Ideological Grip Over Chinese Society, Leaked Documents Reveal

Chinese leader Xi Jinping attends the closing session of China's rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 28, 2020. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters

Since the 18th National Congress, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) conclave held in 2012, Xi Jinping and his regime have pushed for tightening the Party’s control over society—to maintain the Party’s rule over all levels of government and its people.

The Epoch Times has obtained three government documents from a trusted source that reveal the escalation over the years of CCP’s ideological surveillance, which has reached an unprecedented level since Xi came to power in November 2012.

Document No. 9

“Ideological work is an extremely important part of work for the Party,” Xi said, while addressing a national propaganda work conference on Aug. 20, 2013. “Ideological work” is a term used to describe the process of creating and implementing policies to ensure that authorities follow the CCP’s instructions in toeing the Party line.