【新唐人2013年09月05日讯】中共前重庆市委书记薄熙来案一审才结束，大陆媒体又爆出涉及薄案的最新消息。原中石油集团公司董事长、国资委主任蒋洁敏，曾利用职权之便，在薄熙来的任职地兴建石油炼化项目，帮助薄熙来捞取政绩。而在蒋洁敏被宣布免职的同时，中共喉舌高调指称中石油是“老虎窝”。时政观察人士分析，习李政权通过调查中石油的贪腐窝案，挖出幕后的“大老虎”，将触动江派阵营的利益，中共内部的激烈打斗使分裂更为公开化。请看报导。
大陆媒体《21世纪经济报导》9月3号引述知情者的消息透露，蒋洁敏与薄熙来有千丝万缕的关系。知情者说：薄熙来在辽宁担任省长的时候，蒋洁敏就推动中石油在辽宁扩建或兴建原有的石油炼化项目，薄熙来去了重庆后，蒋又故伎重施，来支持薄熙来提升所谓的政绩。
一名业内人士向《《21世纪经济报导》表示，中国北方的炼油能力早已严重过剩，北方的经济落后南方，如果大量所需原油从南方运来，运输成本将巨大。而中石油在重庆的炼化项目，原油也需要从缅甸运来。相比之下，中石化选择在南方沿海修建炼油厂，其实更为经济。
有海外中文媒体报导，蒋洁敏落马的一个重要原因，是他向前常委周永康家族输送巨额利益。蒋洁敏追随周多年，主掌中石油后，利用职权讨好周永康。
9月3号，中组部宣布蒋洁敏被免职。此外，中共喉舌《光明日报》指称，中石油是“老虎窝”，要不断揪出潜伏的“大老虎”。时事评论员夏小强指出，这证实了近来外媒一直关注报导的，中共要把周永康当作“大老虎”来打的消息。
近一段时间以来，中共持续整顿石油系统，多名官员落马。此外，媒体不断传出周永康、前常委曾庆红等被警告甚至软禁的消息。那么，中共高层针对周永康、江泽民利益集团采取一系列行动，拿中石油开刀，其中的背景和深层原因是什么呢？
夏小强：“一直以来，江泽民、曾庆红、周永康.以及红二代的太子党陈元，他们通过国开行、中石化、中石油、发改委这个体系的运作，攫取了巨量财富。正是由于江派的周永康和曾庆红，与石油系统都有千丝万缕的关系，中石油同时隐藏了江派核心人物的巨大罪证。”
夏小强指出，周永康、曾庆红、江泽民都是薄熙来政变谋反的后台大佬，当局通过调查中石油贪腐来打击这些“大老虎”，从政治和稳固权力的角度来看，相对比较安全一些。
据外界观察，中国实行所谓的经济改革开放30多年来，中共一直把自己执政的合法性，寄托在所谓的经济发展上。
夏小强：“习近平李克强上台后，面对随时可能崩溃的经济的严重局面，会严重影响到中共政权的稳定。因此，经济改革成为一个重要的首要的课题。”
夏小强同时强调，在中共一党独裁的政治体制框架中，中国的经济改革和发展是不可持续的，是进行经济改革的一个死结和死亡循环。
夏小强：“特别是江泽民执政期间，他开启了中共官员共同贪腐的机制，造成了中共官场的大量贪污，中国的经济病入膏肓，中国的大型国企，几乎成为了江泽民、曾庆红、周永康这些家族的私有财产。”
夏小强预计，随着习近平和江泽民两大阵营的搏击持续，习近平、李克强、王岐山联盟发起的所谓反腐和改革动作，将会更加激烈触动江泽民集团的利益，同时也会遭到更大的反弹，中共内部的分裂也将随之更为严重和公开化。
随着博弈的不断升级，曾庆红和江泽民的倒台，夏小强认为，也只是时间问题。
采访编辑/常春 后制/黎安安
China National Petroleum Corp “Tiger’s Nest" To Be Taken Down
Key figures involved in the Bo Xilai case
have continued to be drawn into the open.
Recently, Jiang Jiemin, the former president of China
National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) was removed from office.
Jiang is also head of the State-owned Assets
Supervision and Administration Commission.
Using his authority, he set up oil refinery projects,
to help Bo Xilai gain achievement in governance.
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official
media alleges that CNPC is a"tiger’s nest".
Analysts suggest that the Xi Jinping Administration’s
next actions against the CNPC will be to further
undermine interests of the faction led by Jiang Zemin.
They forecast that top-level CCP infighting will make
the Party split apart more, and in a more overt way.
On September 3, China’s 21st Century
Business Herald quoted sources.
It says that Jiang Jiemin has inextricable ties with Bo Xilai.
During Bo’s tenure as Liaoning governor, Jiang
focused CNPC business expansion in Liaoning.
After Bo’s reign over Chongqing, Jiang helped to
boost Bo’s job performance with the same tricks.
Meanwhile, the Herald quoted an industry insider, who
gave views on the questionable business practices of CNPC.
He said that firstly, northern China has
a serious and excessive refining capacity.
Secondly, being less economically developed,
the North heavily relies on crude oil.
This oil is transported at high cost from the South.
Thirdly, even CNPC oil refinery projects in Chongqing
has had to import crude oil shipped from Burma.
Sinopec, another China oil giant, has located
its oil refinery plants more often in the southern
coastal regions, which are more economical.
Overseas Chinese media has reported on
an important cause of Jiang Jiemin’s fall.
He has passed huge profits to Zhou Yongkang,
former Politburo Standing Committee member.
Jiang has worked under Zhou for many years.
After he took the helm of the CNPC, he has
curried favor with Zhou by abusing his power.
On September 3, the CCP Central authorities
announced the removal of Jiang Jiemin from office.
The CCP-sponsored Guangming Daily
calls the CNPC a “tiger’s nest".
It stated that from it would be pulled more"big tigers".
Commentator Xia Xiaoqiang says this confirms
the news intensively reported by overseas media.
That is, the CCP has targeted
Zhou Yongkang, the “big tiger".
Recently, several CNPC executives have been taken down.
New reports emerged that Zhou Yongkang
and Zeng Qinghong have been warned,
or they have been put under house arrest.
What are the motives of the CCP axing the CNPC?
What are its actions against the interest group
led by Zhou Yongkang and Jiang Zemin?
Xia Xiaoqiang: “All along, Jiang Zemin, Zeng Qinghong,
Zhou Yongkang and the CCP princeling Chen Yuan,
have seized huge amount of wealth through a network.
This is composed of National Development Bank, the CNPC,
Sinopec, and National Development & Reform Commission.
Zhou Yongkang and Zeng Qinghong have been
closely connected with the petroleum industry.
The CNPC has helped conceal crucial criminal
evidence for core figures of Jiang Zemin’s faction."
Xia Xiaoqiang says that Zhou Yongkang,
Zeng Qinghong, and Jiang Zemin were all
unseen backers of Bo Xilai’s military coup plot.
The CCP has purged these “big tigers” by way
of investigating corruption inside the CNPC.
This is a relatively safe practice, considering
the CCP’s political stability, according to Xia.
Political observers think that since China opened
up 30 years ago, the CCP has always justified its
political legitimacy with economic development.
Xia Xiaoqiang:"After taking office, Xi Jinping and
Li Keqiang have constantly faced the economic collapse.
This has seriously affected the CCP rule, so
economic reform becomes one of its priorities."
Xia Xiaoqiang indicates that the CCP one-party system
is a hard knot for China’s economic reform and growth.
It is like a closed loop of death.
Xia Xiaoqiang: “In particular, during his tenure,
Jiang Zemin initiated a collective-corruption system.
This has given birth to massive
corruption in the CCP officialdom.
Meanwhile, it has made China’s economy incurably sick.
State-owned enterprises have become almost
private properties for the families of Jiang Zemin,
Zeng Qinghong, and of Zhou Yongkang."
According to Xia Xiaoqiang, the battle will continue
between the two factions under Xi Jinping and Jiang Zemin.
Xi, who is allied with Li Keqiang and Wang Qishan,
will wage more fierce anti-corruption drives,
as well as and reforms against Jiang’s faction.
At the same time, they will get more counter-attack.
It will then be followed by a more overt
splitting of the CCP, Xia Xiaoqiang forecasts.
As the infighting escalates, Xia Xiaoqiang says
that it is just a matter of time before the downfall
of Zeng Qinghong and Jiang Zemin.
