The deputy director of state-run CCTV’s news department, Feng Zhuo, has been identified as the mistress of former President Hu Jintao’s top aide Ling Jihua, who is currently under investigation for “suspected serious disciplinary violation.”
Several CCTV employees confirmed on September 26th that Feng had disappeared and could not be contacted a week prior to that. It is unclear if she was taken by the authorities.
Feng started working as an editor at CCTV fresh from university in 1998, and got into the news department two years later, where she was promoted to the position of deputy director in 2008.
A CCTV insider revealed that rumors of Feng being Ling’s mistresses started to circulate as early as 2005, implying that Feng got promoted due to her relationship with Ling.
Feng allegedly developed the “special relationship” with the then-director of the General Office of the CCP Central Committee when spending a lot of time following and interviewing former President Hu Jintao.
While Feng was enjoying her success at the government-controlled television station, Ling was also using her influence to make CCTV his own mouthpiece.
It has also been reported that Ling has more than one mistress in CCTV, long rumored to be Zhongnanhai's "concubine garden."
[images via Boxun & aboluowang]
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