Abstract: The article focuses on the current Chinese emigration wave with an ever-increasing speed, especially on the large-scale emigration of public employees who obtain foreign residence status covertly via illegal means. Their exodus reveals something disturbing that deserves scrutiny. These officials are the ones to benefit the most from the current political system. Yet the fact that this group of powerful elites begins to emigrate indicates the irrevocable decay of governance and the living environment: these government officials realize that staying put in the country bear a high personal risk. Unlike the conventional view of political change in China that puts more emphasize on the forces external to the regime, I argue that the rapid erosion of the confidence and the will to continue to rule by the ruling class may trigger its own collapse. The ruling elites possess proprietary information about the well-being of the regime that outsiders do not have. Thus the fact that they are leaving in doves should sound the alarm and must be closely monitored and examined.