The geopolitical firestorm surrounding Chinese corporate giant Fufeng Group and its attempt to buy land near a highly sensitive US Air Force drone base in Grand Forks, North Dakota, is not a story of an ordinary, independent business. To understand how Fufeng operates, one must look at the decades-long political ties of its Chairman, Li Xuechun (李学纯).
Under Beijing’s system, local congresses are dressed up as civilian parliaments for foreign observers. In reality, they are joint arenas where corporate billionaires and the regime's military elements sit side-by-side to govern.
According to official provincial government gazettes, during the 11th Shandong Provincial People's Congress beginning in 2008, at least 33 active-duty servicemen and women of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) served directly alongside Fufeng's Chairman, Li Xuechun (李学纯).
These "men in uniform" represent the ultimate brute force of the party-state. Sitting on the exact same legislative floor as corporate tycoons, they are the ones tasked with rubber-stamping astronomical internal security, surveillance, and defense budgets.
Below is the verified roster of the 33 active-duty military "gunsticks" who held parliamentary seats and wielded state power in the same room as Fufeng's chairman during this term:
Yu Shihe (于世河)
Ma Xiaoyan [Female] (马晓燕)
Ma Qingjiang (马清江)
Wang Zhong (王忠)
Wang Debo (王德波)
Feng Jingquan (凤景泉)
Bian Changwei (卞长伟)
Fang Wensheng (方文生)
Xing Guolin (邢国林)
Zhu Linguang (朱霖广)
Liu Shiping (刘士平)
Liu Zhigang (刘志钢)
Li Jinzhong (李进忠)
Bu Weili (步伟利)
Sha Lu (沙路)
Zhang Bailie (张百列)
Zhang Shouxi (张守喜)
Zhang Bingde (张秉德)
Zhang Jianshe (张建设)
Lin Jian (林健)
Rong Senzhi (荣森之)
Duan Hepei (段贺培)
Zhu Zuyi (祝祖一)
Qian Jianjun (钱建军)
Xu Mengcheng (徐梦成)
Guo Qingtang (郭庆堂)
Tan Wenhu (谈文虎)
Cao Mingdong (曹明东)
Sheng Linguo (盛林国)
Shang Yongping (商永平)
Han Zhiqing (韩志庆)
Bao Li [Female] (鲍莉)
Ju Honglun (鞠洪仑)
This 2008 roster bridges the gap between Fufeng's early political integration and its later, massive international expansions. When US national security agencies sound the alarm over Chinese corporate espionage or "military-civil fusion," they are pointing to this exact reality: a system where the hands signing international land deeds are inseparable from the hands holding the regime's rifles.
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