"It is not that I drew a line between Ling Jihua andme after he was removed from the office. We're not relatives, not even distant relatives, and not from the same village. Back in the 1990s, I was in a higher position than him, and Hong Kong media reports said he was promoted because he was my younger brother. Later on, he became a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and the reports said that I gotmy position because I was his younger brother. To be honest, he was still pursuing hismaster's degree when I was the vice-minister of labor."

Linghu An, NPC deputy and member of the NPC Standing Committee