Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s recent rectification of the military has drawn high attention from the outside world. The picture shows Xi Jinping (center) attending a ceremony held at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on September 30, 2018.
[People News] Every year, the Two Sessions are both a stage for the Chinese Communist Party’s self-praise and a good opportunity for the outside world to dig up Chinese Communist Party scandals.
As soon as this year’s Two Sessions began, the officially released data showed that the major purge in Chinese Communist Party officialdom has grown more brutal year by year, that official corruption is becoming more and more serious the more it is investigated, and that corruption can never be separated from the Chinese Communist Party.
On March 9, Zhao Leji, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, mentioned in his work report that over the past year, 7 deputies were by-elected and 58 people had their representative qualifications terminated, including 55 who were removed and 3 who resigned. After the by-elections, the current National People’s Congress had 2,878 deputies in actual count.
However, the Two Sessions report in March 2024 showed that in 2023, 24 people had their representative qualifications terminated and 3 deputies were by-elected. The Two Sessions report in March 2025 disclosed that 30 people had their representative qualifications terminated and 3 deputies were by-elected. This shows that since March 2025, the number of National People’s Congress deputies whose qualifications were terminated and the number newly by-elected have both exceeded the total for the previous two years.
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s recent rectification of the military has drawn high attention from the outside world. The picture shows Xi Jinping (center) attending a ceremony held at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on September 30, 2018. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
This year, another issue that has drawn even more attention than in previous years is the major purge in the military, which has led to a large number of military representatives being removed.
According to the “List of Deputies” on the official website of the National People’s Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, there are currently 243 military deputies to the National People’s Congress. This includes Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Zhang Youxia and Central Military Commission member Liu Zhenli, whose downfalls have already been officially announced and who were absent from the Two Sessions. In addition, 13 generals were absent from the March 3 founding meeting of the military delegation.
When the military representatives entered the hall, the number of delegates in the military delegation had clearly decreased. Although the representatives were wearing brand-new military uniforms, their expressions were stiff and the overall atmosphere was gloomy. They spoke cautiously and behaved stiffly. Moreover, this year for the first time there was no deputy head of the delegation, only a head, with Central Military Commission member Zhang Shengmin serving in that role. Outside observers speculate that perhaps all the generals qualified for the position had already been purged, leaving the post vacant. Even though they knew it looked humiliating, there was no time left to cover it up.
As for why so many military representatives were missing, the main reason is the major internal military rectification campaign launched by Xi Jinping over the past two years, which caused many senior generals to fall from power. The number of removed military representatives reached as many as 36, including 16 generals.
According to statistics from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), more than one hundred generals have fallen in wave after wave of anti-corruption campaigns, accounting for 52% of the military command layer.
Even so, Xi Jinping still cannot feel at ease. On March 7, at the “full meeting of the delegation of the People’s Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force” during the Fourth Session of the 14th National People’s Congress, Xi Jinping spoke harshly, saying that there must absolutely be no one in the military harboring divided loyalty toward the Party, absolutely no place for corrupt elements to hide, and that the anti-corruption struggle must be pushed forward unwaveringly. It seems that more arrests must continue; otherwise Xi Jinping’s suspicions will be difficult to calm.
In response, Shen Youzhong, deputy head of Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, said that the major purge reflects the leadership’s deep unease over its control of the military. This reveals instability in the morale of the Chinese Communist Party military, and the turmoil in the armed forces will continue.
Mark, host of the military channel Mark Space-Time, said that Xi Jinping’s move is in fact making him the enemy of all Chinese Communist Party officials.
In fact, quite a number of current affairs commentators who obtained inside information from Beijing, as well as former senior Chinese Communist Party military officers who escaped overseas, have revealed that the command system inside the People’s Liberation Army, like the officialdom in the government system, has long been thoroughly corrupt. The large amount of resources poured into the military in the name of military modernization have all been carved up, and officers at every level have also filled their pockets. In such an environment, generals with clean hands may find it hard even to survive.
Taiwanese military strategist Su Ziyun emphasized that because everyone in the Chinese Communist Party military feels endangered, this naturally leads to a decline in its command and combat capabilities. In addition, when Xi Jinping promotes generals, what he values is their political stance rather than their professional ability, which further weakens the combat strength of the Chinese Communist Party military.
According to a report by U.S. intelligence agencies, there is evidence that as of 2024 Xi Jinping’s family still held huge commercial interests and financial investments. Xi Jinping’s family has also been exposed as controlling and having a hand in large enterprises across multiple industries, and core members of Xi’s faction have likewise been exposed in corruption scandals. Yet Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign targets only others and not himself, which is bound to provoke dissatisfaction and resistance among military generals and government officials.
(First published by People News) △
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