The relevant Chinese departments accused two former Minister of Defense on Thursday to receive "huge" bribes and other corruption behaviors. They illegally seek personnel benefits for others and harmed the national military equipment construction.

The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which is composed of 24 senior officials, issued two announcements. General Li Shangfu, who served as Minister of Defense last year, and Wei Fenghe, who served as Minister of Defense from 2018 to 2023And allegations against discipline.These announcements show that in the process of expanding the investigation, more people may be dismissed.

Since the senior officer of the Rocket Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was dismissed or disappeared last year, people have begun to predict that they have investigated the corruption and improper behavior of the army.After several months of disappearing from the public sight, Li Shangfu was removed from the post of Minister of Defense in October last year, which made the rumors even more arrogant.But until now, Chinese leaders have revealed a series of allegations involved in the investigation.

Announcement on Li Shangfu said that he was found to use his position to seek benefits for others and receive huge amounts of money. In addition, he bribed others and tried to obstruct his investigation.Regarding Wei Fenghe's announcement also put forward similar allegations and pointed out that he had been bribed your valuable gift gifts.

Both were deprived of the rank and expelled from the party, and their cases were sent to the military procuratorial organs, which means that the two are almost inevitable that they will be tried, convicted and sentenced to severe punishment.It will even be sentenced to death.Essence

Both of them were members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.The announcement wrote that Li Shangfu "abandoned his original mission and lost the principles of party spirit, and his behavior failed the trust of the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission."Wei Fenghe was also accused of "collapse" for the party.

These announcements may trigger a wider investigation, which may temporarily slow down the pace of rapid military modernization.The announcement states that investigators are tracking more clues, and Li Shangfu's corruption "seriously pollutes" the political ecology and industry fields in the military equipment field.Before he was appointed Minister of Defense, he had been stepping on the cloud as an expert in military equipment, and this field has been expanding expenses for decades.

Yang Nianzu, a Chinese military expert who had worked in the Ministry of National Defense in Taiwan, said in an interview with a telephone interview: "These announcements seem to point to some very serious things."

He believes that the two generals have blocked investigators, and the announcement stated that they lost confidence, dissatisfied, or obedient.

Yang Nianzu said when talking: "I think I will see a comprehensive investigation of the army next, not only the Rocket Army, but also other departments."

Earlier this month, when receiving the commander in Yan'an, he emphasized that he was determined to eradicate the improper behavior in the army and being regarded as an unfaithful behavior.Yan'an is a red sacred place located in northwestern China. Mao Zedong gathered troops here during the revolution and the Anti -Japanese War.

A similar "political work" meeting was held for the army in 2014. At that time, China was eradicating corruption phenomenon that prevailed in the past decades, including the opportunity to promote sale and selling.

But obviously, the problem still exists. This time, in Yan'an, it advocated the spirit of Mao Zedong's army as incentives and warnings.

"The senior cadres of the army must keep in mind the original mission and take the lead in promoting the spirit of Yan'an," said this based on the official minutes of the three -day meeting."Ensure that the people's army will always be the purpose of the nature, and always dare to win."

For the vision of building China as a rejuvenated global country, the army is essential.

Foreign abroad is the key to China ’s impact and weakening the United States in the Asia -Pacific region.It is also important for the effort to co -Taiwan into China-.

Li Shangfu, 66, was an engineer, and gradually promoted in Rockets, weapons research and development, and Chinese manned aerospace projects.He was the first deputy commander of the strategic support forces, which was created as part of the reorganization of the Chinese army at the end of 2015.In April this year, the troops have been split into three independent units.

Wei Fenghe, 70, is the first commander of the Rocket Army. The Rocket Army keeps most of China's nuclear weapons and thousands of conventional missiles.At the end of 2015, the second artillery unit was upgraded and the Rocket Army was created.

He also said that he expects that China ’s plans to build more warships, aircraft and missiles will not be disturbed.