While Chinese agribusiness giant Fufeng Group was telling American authorities that its 370-acre land purchase near a sensitive US Air Force drone base in North Dakota was "purely commercial," official government records from Beijing tell a completely different story.
In China's opaque, party-state apparatus, the line between "private business," "the regime," and "the military junta" doesn't exist. They share the exact same boardroom.
According to official state communiqués, at least 33 active-duty servicemen of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)—the armed wing of the Communist Party—sat side-by-side with Fufeng Group’s Chairman, Li Xuechun (李学纯), as lawmakers in the 12th Shandong Provincial People's Congress starting in 2013.
While Westerners picture a parliament as a civilian body, Beijing’s legislative halls are heavily populated by the regime's brute force. These "men in uniform" are the ones who rubber-stamp ballooning internal security and defense budgets under the guise of "democracy."
Below is the verified roster of the 33 active-duty military "gunsticks" who shared the legislative floor, approved policies, and co-governed the province alongside Fufeng's chairman:
Ding Weijie (丁伟杰)
Wang Weili (王伟力)
Wang Yankui (王延奎)
Wang Zhaozhen (王兆祯)
Wang Baozhen (王宝贞)
Yin Jiatong (尹家铜)
Li Jiangtan (厉江潭)
Ye Yimin (叶益民)
Yi Xicai (伊西财)
Liu Congliang (刘从良)
Liu Shuming (刘述明)
Liu Chunguo (刘春国)
Liu Feng (刘峰)
Liu Xinhua (刘新华)
Xu Zhiqiang (许志强)
Xu Shengting (许胜廷)
Wu Jufeng (吴巨峰)
Gu Xingli (谷兴利)
Song Xiefeng (宋协峰)
Zhang Hongliang (张宏亮)
Zhang Minyu (张闽玉)
Zhang Xinbo (张新波)
Lu Zhongwei (陆中伟)
Chen Ning (陈宁)
Rong Senzhi (荣森之)
Hu Shaoping (胡少平)
Hu Hongbing (胡红兵)
Hou Yan [Female] (侯燕)
Qin Xungao (秦训高)
Qin Jianhui (秦建辉)
Cao Yuanwen (曹元文)
Cui Lei [Female] (崔蕾)
Liao Fayin (廖发银)
When the US Air Force finally blocked Fufeng's project in 2023, declaring it a "significant threat to national security," they weren't being paranoid.
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