On the eve of the "August 1st" Army Festival of the PLA, a news about the promotion of the generals of the CPC Central Committee indirectly confirmed the rumor that the Rocket Army was brewing the anti -corruption storm.
According to the Xinhua News Agency, the CPC Central Military Commission held a promotion ceremony in Beijing's Bayi Building on Monday (July 31). The two generals who were promoted were Wang Houbin, commander of the Rocket Army, and Xu Xisheng, a political member of the Rocket Army.
This is the first time that the two have appeared in public as the Rocket Army commander and the political commissar.The 62 -year -old Wang Houbin was former deputy commander of the PLA navy. Xu Xisheng, 59, was the deputy political commissar of the southern theater and the Southern Theater Air Force and Political Commissar.
The two of them appeared in new positions, which means that 60 -year -old Li Yuchao and 62 -year -old Xu Zhongbo have unloaded the positions of the Rocket Army Commander and Political Commissar respectively.The Hong Kong South China Morning Post previously reported that Li Yughao and his two other colleagues were taken away for investigation.The Financial Times reported that foreign officials who had received intelligence blowing believed that the leaders of the Rocket Army were investigated for suspected leakage of military secrets.
However, Chinese officials have not notified the whereabouts of Li Yuchao and Xu Zhongbo, and whether the two have happened.
The Rocket Army officially established in December 2015 was renamed by the Second Artillery Force and belongs to the younger military.The core power is also highly hoped for high -level.The Chinese defense white paper released in the new era released in 2019 described that the Rocket Army "has a vital position and role in safeguarding national sovereignty and security."
Public information shows that the Rocket Army is responsible for combat tasks such as the target strike and nuclear strike of conventional missiles. The main weapons include the Dongfeng series ballistic missiles familiar with the outside world. It is also the extremely important military force to respond to the Taiwan Strait crisis.Special strategic importance and secrets make the Rocket Army's high -level personnel even more sensitive.
It is also very rare to replace the Rocket Army Commander and Political Commissar at the same time.Li Yuchao and Xu Zhongbo, who were replaced, were general of the PLA. The two were only elected as members of the 20th Central Committee in October last year. In just nine months, they were removed from the high -level position of the Rocket Army, which will inevitably cause many associations.
The newly promoted Rocket Army high -level high -level is also very different from the past.After the Rocket Army was established at the end of 2015, Wei Fenghe, the first commander, and the subsequent commanders, Zhou Yaning and Li Yughao, were promoted from the Second Artillery Forces or the Rocket Army.Wang Houbin, the newly appointed commander, and Xu Xisheng, the political commissar, were from the Navy and Air Force.
High -level large shuffle, "airborne" commander and political commissar, does this mean that the high -level high -level no longer trusts the Rocket Army, or to break the rocket army system in the rocket system?
Before the news of high -level large shuffles was exposed, some news about the rocket military personnel had a lot of news.
The news of the death of Wu Guohua, a former deputy commander of the Rocket Army, circulated in social media last month. The reason for the death was different.A report from the surging news on July 27 said that the Chinese general died on July 4.However, Xinhua News Agency has not yet released a promise of Wu Guohua's death.
The Hong Kong Media Nanhua Morning Post also quoted anonymous sources last week that the Central Military Commission Disciplinary Inspection Commission and the military audit department were facing the then rocket army commander Li Yughao, deputy commander Liu Guangbin, and former deputy commander Zhang Zhenzhong to start anti -corruption.investigation.
As for the reason why these senior generals were investigated, the report quoted that they did not have celebrities that they had more opportunities to deal with national defense related enterprises after transferring to Beijing, suggesting that there was the possibility of benefit delivery.There are also overseas media that the reason for triggering the executives of Rocket Army is leaked, which is related to a detailed report on the structure of the Rocket Army and the deployment of the base in October last year.
Before the "August 1st" Army Festival, the Communist Party of China and the senior army have frequently released signals that may have a large movement of anti -corruption in the army.From July 20th to 21st, the Chinese Military Commission's chairman of the Chinese official at the construction conference of the entire army required to continue to promote the comprehensive and strict party and strictly govern the army;Zhengfeng Sugin anti -corruption. "
On July 24, when the Central Political Bureau conducted a collective study of military governance in an all -round way, Chinese officials also mentioned that it is necessary to strengthen military expenditure management and supervision and deepen the governance of key areas.Two days later, when he went to the Western Theater Air Force to inspect, he emphasized that "keeping the right and anti -corruption of the righteousness and anti -corruption"; on the same day, the Military Commission's equipment Development Department issued another announcement and collected the equipment procurement bidding review experts since October 2017 in violation of the rules and disciplinary clues.EssenceThese signs show that a new army is about to fight corruption.
The Communist Party of China was high -pressure anti -corruption after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and the army was no exception.EssenceHowever, shocking corruption cases in various fields are still common, which also shows that anti -corruption is not as simple as it is on the surface.
Chinese officials often say that the anti -corruption struggle cannot stop for a moment, and must always blow the front.However, the endless "tiger" may make the people's increasing confidence in anti -corruption. It can be seen that anti -corruption still cannot reach the state of "not rotten and dare not rot."As the saying goes, Sunshine is the best preservative. In this long -lasting game with corruption, system reform is still difficult to avoid, because corruption that does not heal for a long time is always the most important factor that threatens the rule of the Communist Party of China.