Crackdown on China’s PLA to continue until ‘graft has been eradicated’

China’s People’s Liberation Army will improve its judicial rules as part of the nation’s continuing anti-corruption campaign until all graft is eradicated from the world’s biggest army, a logistics expert says.

The crackdown, which had brought down many senior military officials, including the late Xu Caihou, former vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission, and Gu Junshan, one-time deputy logistics chief, would continue, Xie Fan stressed.

A number of people mistakenly believed the campaign was simply a “temporary” measure that would soon end, said Xie, an expert at the Military Economics Academy, an institution affiliated with the PLA's General Logistics Department, in an editorial today in the PLA Daily.

“Some departments continue with illegal practices: they are reluctant to strictly enforce the law because the phenomenon of worshipping power – rather than having respect for the law – continues to exist.

“We should be absolutely clear that the comprehensive anti-graft campaign is not something merely designed to sweep away corruption.

“It will help to create a normal code of behaviour adopted by all personnel, which will form part of the massive, wholescale reform of the PLA.

“The continuing crackdown against corruption is not something selective. It forms part of a legal reform process that knows no limit, or will accept no exceptions.”