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China’s top military officials face ‘ironclad’ rules in anti-corruption fight
Measures cover education, management and supervision of senior cadres and coincide with emphasis on study of Xi Jinping Thought
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China’s top military command has issued strict measures to enforce discipline among senior officials of the People’s Liberation Army, marking its latest bid to further tighten controls over the behaviour of the top brass.
The Central Military Commission (CMC), led by President Xi Jinping as chairman, issued the “measures on strengthening the education, management and supervision of senior military cadres” recently, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday.
In a front-page commentary on Thursday, the official PLA Daily hailed the “ironclad rules”, calling them “an essential requirement for ensuring the health of the party and the long-term development of its cause”.
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The Xinhua report said the new rules distilled and applied “the practical experience and institutional achievements” of Xi’s anti-corruption fight in the civilian and military sectors. The aim was to establish “ironclad rules for strict education, strict management and strict supervision” of senior military cadres.
The measures have come months after Xi’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign gutted the top ranks of the world’s second largest military, trimming the once seven-member CMC to just Xi and its disciplinary chief Zhang Shengmin.
The areas covered focus on “strictly enforcing discipline to alert minds and guide actions, tightly regulating principal officers so they lead by example and clarifying responsibilities for concrete implementation”, according to the report.
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