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Li Jing

More senior officials have switched jobs in the People's Liberation Army amid an ongoing major reshuffle.
Observers have suggested the changes are a consequence of President Xi Jinping's crackdown on PLA corruption .
Ma Yiming, chief of staff at the Jinan Military Region, has been named assistant chief of the General Staff, the financial news service Caixin reported, citing Tuesday's PLA  Daily .
Ma, 57, had served his entire army career in the Jinan Military Region since joining in 1974. He became its chief of staff in 2012, Caixin said.
Zhou Songhe, chief of staff of the Headquarters of the General Logistics Department, would be promoted to department deputy director, replacing Qin Yinhe, who was reaching retirement age, Caixin reported.
Meanwhile, Lieutenant General Zhang Shibo , commander of the Beijing Military Region, has been named president of the PLA's National Defence University, its most senior military school. Zhang attended a meeting with Central Military Commission vice-chairman Fan Changlong at the university on Tuesday, Xinhua said.
Zhang, 62, was only appointed to his Beijing post in June after serving as head of the Hong Kong garrison from January, 2008. He swaps positions with Lieutenant General Song Puxuan .
In recent weeks dozens of top military cadres, including the commander and the political commissar of the key South Sea Fleet, have been caught up in the major reshuffle in the PLA.
The changes come after Xu Caihou , the former the vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, was expelled from the Communist Party in June after being accused of taking bribes.
An article in the PLA Daily earlier this month said the crackdown on corruption in the military would continue.


Reshuffle of leading PLA officers continues

Lieutenant General Zhang Shibo has been named president of the PLA's National Defence University. Photo: May Tse

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More senior officials have switched jobs in the People's Liberation Army amid an ongoing major reshuffle.
