As Epoch Time’s editorial series, “The Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party,” or “Jiuping,” widely spreads in China, the CCP has come under unprecedented pressure to alleviate the influence of the commentaries and the wave of resignations from the party.

In order to alleviate the wave of resignations, the CCP dealt with this significant crisis in January according to its past “experience.” The CCP urgently established an administrative chain of the highest authorities for the special task force, literally translated as the “education leading group for maintaining CCP members’ advanced nature.”

He Guoqiang, head of the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee, was appointed group leader to focus on the wave of resignations that followed publication of the Nine Commentaries. Prior to this action, in mid-December, the CCP’s Politics and Law Committee issued a document requiring the dismissal of all who resigned from the party, but this procedure proved to be ineffective.

The publication of the editorial series by The Epoch Times at the end of last year exposed the CCP’s evil and corrupt nature. The audacity of the move shocked Beijing. After a prolonged period of silence, the CCP published an article called “Anti-Chinese Culture Network,” subtitled “Can Epoch Times’ Nine Commentaries really overthrow the CCP?” The article claims that the Nine Commentaries is “the most serious challenge to the Chinese government in history.”

The large-scale party resignations prompted by the Nine Commentaries apparently created an atmosphere of increasing restlessness for the party. Since December 3, Epoch Times’ Web site for resignations, tuidang.dajiyuan.com, has received resignation statements from more than 40,000 people. Recently, the number of people resigning from the party’s Youth League has increased sharply, with 5,000 to 6,000 people issuing resignation statements daily, mostly coming from Mainland China. The wave of resignations, which shows no sign of abating, is driving more mainland CCP members to resign.

Historically, the CCP has formed a special motion group within the party administrative system to respond to major crises. Special motion groups are responsible for carrying out and enforcing policies, and their authority surpasses the State Council and the national constitution. They have the power to transfer the army and use national finances. Some past special task groups used by the CCP include the central Great Cultural Revolution group and the 610 Office, which was organized for persecution of Falun Gong.

Last month, this latest special motion group established 58 superintending and directing groups to supervise all local levels of the government’s implementation of the movement. Currently, they are operating in 31 provincial and municipal cities, 115 departments directly under the Party central committee, the central state agency department and central committee, subordinate institutions directly under State Council, 14 central finance organs and 36 enterprises that are managed by the leaders of the central government.

Reports indicate various activities aimed at consolidating the party organization. On Feb. 19, Hong Kong’s Wenhui Daily reported that approximately 200 Chinese government and army senior officials recently met at Beijing Central Party School to listen to “important speeches” made by Hu Jintao in order to unify their ideology and strengthen their unity. Guangzhou’s maintaining advancement training class began its session on Feb. 8 at Zhongshan Memorial Hall. Group leader Lin Shusen is the CCP’s chief in Guangzhou. He reviewed the oath for joining the party with 30,000 henchmen and ordered all 400,000 party members of the city to watch the live shows.

The CCP recently transmitted information about the special task force to inner high-level party members, attempting to alleviate the pressure caused by the wave of resignations and the Nine Commentaries. A well-informed source disclosed that the party’s intention is to seek members’ coordination to bring the CCP back to life, but the party is concealing its intentions and actions from domestic media and society. On the one hand, the CCP vigorously claims “maintaining advancement” attempting to harmonize the society and slacken the people’s vigilance.

When civilians see the party consolidation and party members re-education resulting from the Nine Commentaries, they are even more eager to read the editorial work. As the desire to read the Nine Commentaries endures in civilians and party members, the publication spreads more quickly in society. Many committee members ask people who are touring overseas to bring the Nine Commentaries to them and have asked family and friends overseas to resign from the CCP for them.

This time, the major activity of the task forces is requiring party members to take classes and to read the party constitution and historical literature. For example, according to Sichuan Daily, as of Feb. 15, in Sichuan province, the CCP leaders at county level and above have given more than 300 classes, with more than 130,000 party members attending the class.

The effects of these actions are questionable. Mainland Chinese citizen Huang Junfang’s published statement on the Epoch Times’ resignation Web site on Feb. 13 offers a vivid description of participating in the party class and may show the universal point of view of party members. Huang said: “Even though I am in a government position of that evil cult, I do not believe the CCP, and even less so believe the specter of communism. I did not even want the words of the leader to enter my ears. For the two hours of the meeting, I sat in repose with my eyes closed and silently recited ‘Buddha Amitabha, Buddha Amitabha’ for the two hours. I opened my eyes after the end of the meeting.”

Also on the Web site for resignations, a Chinese reader named Yang Cun published on Feb. 22 a statement about being at the CCP Political Consultative Conference. Yang stated: “From my contact with people, it appears that three out of 10 party members are extremely willing to resign from the CCP, another three [of the 10] want to but dare not say it, two would not resign because they are receiving material benefits from the party and the remaining two are left in a dilemma. Therefore, I wonder, does every resignation represent a hundred or a thousand party members?”