PBSC Member and Chairman of the CDIC Wang Qishan has been reported visiting Hunan on an inspection tour on September 4, 2017. Earlier on August 24, 2017, he was seen along with other PBSC members at Babaoshan, Beijing, attending the funeral of an old Chinese Communist Party cadre, An Zhiwen.  Xinhua did not report it, but the online edition of Caixin, an influential Chinese economics magazine, did. Wang Qishan has not been mentioned by Xinhua since August 6, 2017

(Comment: The magazine's head editor is said to be close to Wang Qishan. The news went viral. As it spread across social media, authorities did not censor it, thus rubber-stamping it as true. An article in Asia Nikkei.com on September 5, 2017 said that between July 1 and September 3, President Xi Jinping appeared on the official Xinhua News Agency a total of 920 times. Other members of the Politburo Standing Committee range from 163 mentions to 51. Only Wang Qishan, the anti-corruption czar and officially No. 6 on the standing committee, hovers at 18.)