Yang Chung-mei and Hao Yi-sheng have several times been criticized by name in the People's Daily, and Chi Wei-tung's academic research has been placed on a blacklist circulated among high-level communist cadres, indicating that he is a marked man.
楊中美、郝一生兩人，更曾多次在人民日報上被點名批判，即使是季衛東所做的學術研究，也曾多次被列入中共高級幹部閱讀參考文件內，顯示他已被「密切注意」。