Don’t ask unnecessary questions, Xi tells CPC

In a stiff warning to ruling Chinese Communist Party members, President Xi Jinping has told them not to ask unnecessary questions and stay away from spreading gossip, forming factions and indulging in corruption.

Mr Xi, regarded as the most powerful Chinese leader in recent decades as he heads the Communist Party of China (CPC), the government and the military warned members not to ask questions “that should not be asked” and told them not to spread gossip about party politics. The comments were published in the latest book edited by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the CPC which collected previously undisclosed remarks made by Mr Xi since he took over power the leadership in November 2012, the Hong Kong based South China Morning Post reported.

“There are some people spreading rumours, forwarding comments online or gathering groups of die-hard friends together to inappropriately discuss major party policies,” Mr Xi told a CCDI meeting a year ago. “Some have been keen to poke around and...Ask the things they should not ask... And run after the so-called internal information and spread it in private,” Mr Xi said.