{"id":740813,"date":"2026-07-03T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740813\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:02:09","slug":"developing-chinese-president-xi-jinping-appoints-new-military-anti-corruption-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740813\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing | Chinese President Xi Jinping appoints new military anti-corruption chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese President Xi Jinping has named a new head of the military\u2019s anti-corruption body.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3359206\/what-seating-chart-might-reveal-about-future-chinas-military-leadership?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zhang Shuguang<\/a>, who was promoted from the rank of lieutenant general to full general, was named as the new head of the Central Military Commission\u2019s Discipline Inspection Commission \u2013 the top military anti-corruption body \u2013 and director of the CMC\u2019s supervision committee, replacing Zhang Shengmin.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wang Gang was also promoted to the rank of full general and will take over as head of the People\u2019s Liberation Army Air Force, state broadcaster CCTV reported.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two other former CMC members Liu Zhenli and Miao Hua have also been targeted, leaving Xi and Zhang Shengmin as the only surviving members of the commission.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A total of 26 generals have been investigated since 2023, and 12 have disappeared from public view or missed important meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese President Xi Jinping has named a new head of the military\u2019s anti-corruption body. Zhang Shuguang, who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,202919,202924,136874,318388,451,318386,3,82985,318389,452,453,211471,318387,318385],"class_list":["post-740813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-central-military-commission","tag-chinese-military","tag-chinese-president-xi-jinping","tag-discipline-inspection-commission","tag-headlines","tag-military-leadership","tag-news","tag-peoples-liberation-army","tag-peoples-liberation-army-air-force","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-wang-gang","tag-zhang-shengmin","tag-zhang-shuguang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}