Xi Jinping's Family Accepts His Graceful Exit – Wen Jiabao Misspeaks While Visiting Qi Xin

Former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images)

[People News] Rumours of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping losing power have attracted intense attention both in China and abroad. It is said that the CCP elders have agreed to allow Xi Jinping a dignified resignation. Recently, reports have emerged that Xi’s family, including his mother, wife, and daughter, have all accepted this arrangement.

Economist and poet Su Xiaohe previously disclosed on his social media that Xi Jinping made a request to the party elders: “Let me step down with dignity.” The senior officials reportedly agreed and plan to hold a nationwide party members’ referendum in July. This would involve a review and historical evaluation of Xi Jinping’s tenure, essentially a scoring system by party members, an internal democratic process starting with Xi’s resignation.

Commentator Li Muyang also shared on his “News Insight” program that he received an email tip-off, stating that the CCP held a secret meeting on May 27. Attendees allegedly included Xi Jinping, Wen Jiabao, Wang Yang, Wang Qishan, along with their secretaries and notetakers. The whistleblower claimed Xi Jinping voluntarily proposed his resignation during the meeting, hoping it would be approved at the Fourth Plenary Session. He also made security requests—not just for himself but for his family, particularly his sister, brother, and daughter. He also asked that his father Xi Zhongxun’s memorials not be subject to retaliation or destruction.

On the night of June 7, Su Xiaohe continued revealing that Xi Jinping’s family was satisfied with the proposed arrangements for his graceful resignation. His mother Qi Xin, wife Peng Liyuan, daughter Xi Mingze, and younger brother Xi Yuanping were all said to have agreed.

Wen Jiabao reportedly paid a personal visit to Xi Jinping’s mother, Qi Xin. Su Xiaohe said that Wen and a group from Zhongnanhai brought many gifts to Qi Xin’s home. However, being elderly, Wen Jiabao allegedly misspoke while offering his blessings. He reportedly said, “I wish you good health and a long life! May you live longer than your son!” Su Xiaohe joked that Wen’s poor phrasing implied wishing Xi Jinping an early death.

Su also revealed that Wen Jiabao has long been a family friend of the Xis.

In 1985, when Hu Yaobang was the CCP General Secretary, Wen Jiabao was appointed Deputy Director of the General Office of the Central Committee and promoted to Director a year later. Xi Zhongxun was then a Politburo member and Secretary of the Central Secretariat. From 1985 to 1989, Wen and Xi Zhongxun had frequent interactions at work.

Wen was personally promoted by Hu Yaobang, whom he regarded as his mentor. In a documentary commemorating Xi Zhongxun, Wen Jiabao mentioned that Xi fully supported Hu Yaobang’s work.

Since his retirement, Wen Jiabao has maintained a low profile.

However, between March 25 and April 15, 2021, Wen published four articles in Macau media reminiscing about his mother. In them, he wrote: “The China in my heart should be a country full of fairness and justice,” a statement seen by many as a veiled critique of Xi Jinping. The articles were banned from sharing on Chinese social media.

On September 30 of last year, the CCP held a banquet in Beijing for the 75th anniversary of its founding. Wen Jiabao and Li Ruihuan were seated to Xi Jinping’s left and right, respectively, raising widespread speculation.

Du Wen, former executive director of the Legal Advisory Office of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Government, now based in Belgium, told The Epoch Times that this unusually public arrangement was meant to signal party “unity.” Du noted that Wen Jiabao is widely regarded at home and abroad as part of the “anti-Xi faction.” During the Beidaihe meeting in August 2024, rumours swirled that Wen tried to “force Xi out.” Du suggested that seating Wen beside Xi was an attempt to have Wen “endorse” Xi and show supposed party solidarity.

Chen Pokong, a U.S.-based political commentator, said on his show that Xi’s treatment of Wen Jiabao as a VIP confirmed rumours of a power shift during the CCP’s 20th Third Plenary Session in July. There had been speculation that Xi suffered a stroke or serious illness. From that time through the Beidaihe meetings in August, senior political elders were actively involved in decision-making, suggesting Xi’s grip on power was weakening.

According to whistleblowers, on May 14, the CCP held an expanded Politburo meeting. At that meeting, Wen Jiabao allegedly declared that Hu Jintao being escorted out of the 20th Party Congress was a “coup,” and that Li Keqiang’s death must be thoroughly investigated.

Wen Jiabao has long been viewed as a reformist and anti-Cultural Revolution figure within the CCP, while Xi Jinping is seen as a supporter of the Cultural Revolution and opponent of reforms. Their political ideologies and factional alignments are sharply opposed.

Dajiyuan's “Century Truth” program previously listed 15 major policy failures under Xi Jinping, allegedly influenced by “Communist evil forces”:

1. Saying there were “1,000 reasons to make U.S.-China relations work,” yet later labelling the U.S. the “number one enemy”

2. Claiming to “defend sovereignty and territorial integrity” but refusing to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

3. Ignoring Kim Jong-un for five years, then returning to supporting the North Korean regime

4. Mishandling COVID-19, insisting on “zero-COVID” leading to domestic chaos and countless deaths upon sudden reopening

5. Promoting “Party media must follow the Party,” cracking down on freedom of speech

6. Imposing the Hong Kong National Security Law, ending “one country, two systems” 27 years early

7. Increasing military pressure on Taiwan, escalating cross-strait tensions

8. Eliminating the Communist Youth League faction but retaining Jiang faction heavyweights like Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, and Han Zheng

9. Promoting severely corrupt officials to top posts

10. Building the Xiong’an New Area in a flood-prone basin

11. Promoting “state advances, private retreats,” targeting private entrepreneurs

12. Pursuing the costly Belt and Road Initiative, with massive foreign investments going to waste

13. Encouraging xenophobic and boycott campaigns, fueling populism and isolating China internationally

14. Allowing 600 million Chinese to live on less than 1,000 RMB/month, while recklessly spending abroad

15. Rejecting universal values and pushing the concept of a “shared future for mankind”

Each of these major missteps has significantly damaged Xi’s reputation. Combined, they have caused his credibility to plummet.

The report concludes that by now, Xi has made too many enemies both inside and outside China. Even if this wasn’t his intention, it has come to pass. Why? According to the article, “It’s because the Communist evil spirit destroys people. Once you swear loyalty to it, it controls you entirely—driving you to one mistake after another until you fall into a bottomless pit.”

Recently, Dajiyuan learned that Xi has already relinquished power, and actual control now lies with Wen Jiabao and Zhang Youxia. A well-informed insider close to the leadership claimed that Xi Jinping recently met Wen Jiabao in Luoyang, where he broke down in tears and denounced Zhang Youxia as a “living devil,” pleading with Wen to stop Zhang’s intensifying purge.