Chinese President Xi Jinping is reshaping the leadership of China’s military anti-corruption system while continuing broader personnel changes linked to an ongoing anti-graft campaign. Multiple reports say Xi promotes and appoints new leadership within the Central Military Commission (CMC) framework for discipline and supervision. The South China Morning Post reports that Zhang Shuguang is appointed head of the CMC Discipline Inspection Commission, described as the military’s top anti-corruption body, and also serves as director of the CMC’s supervision committee. The same report says Zhang is promoted from lieutenant general to full general, and notes that Xi had promoted two generals for the first time in nearly a year.
Separately, several outlets report that China removes six senior People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers from posts in the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, as announced in a late-night notice attributed to that body. These removals occur alongside other departures from the legislature, including a former top financial regulator and the former Xinjiang Communist Party chief. Sources describe the moves as part of Xi’s years-long campaign in which senior officials and senior military figures are investigated, removed, and purged, with no official reasons provided in the notices cited by the outlets.
