General Political Department

PLA names 300 delegates to party congress

10 Aug 2012

The People's Liberation Army and its affiliated People's Armed Police yesterday released a list of its 300 delegates for the upcoming 18th national party congress.

Surprises as six appointed generals

31 Jul 2012

The top two officers with the People's Armed Police (PAP), along with four senior political commissars of the People's Liberation Army, were promoted yesterday to the highest possible ranks they...

Top PLA officers must report assets

22 Jun 2012

China's top military body has ordered thousands of senior officers to report their assets, in a move military analysts describe as a 'groundbreaking' step in the fight against corruption in the...

Party steps up efforts to keep generals in line

22 Mar 2012

The Communist Party has stepped up an ideological campaign to bring the People's Liberation Army under tighter control ahead of the party's leadership reshuffle this autumn.

Jiang ally to get PLA 'indoctrination' job

2 Jan 2008

A former personal secretary of retired leader Jiang Zemin has been put in charge of political loyalty in the People's Liberation Army, the Beijing-backed Ta Kung Pao reported yesterday.

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Li Jinai: PLA political director stuck in stationary orbit

The decision to go back to just having two Central Military Commission vice-chairmen means that General Li Jinai remains in a lower orbit.

Circular bans soldiers from joining protests

Beijing has issued a circular banning soldiers from taking part in petitions and demonstrations following a series of mass protests by disgruntled veterans.

38,000 armed forces jobs to go

The PLA and the People's Armed Police will shed 38,000 positions this year as part of a plan to streamline the armed forces.

Former Deng aide out of top PLA post

Deng Xiaoping's most trusted aide and former secretary has been removed from a senior post in one of the PLA's top four organs.

Army discipline drive

THE People's Liberation Army is trying to further tighten internal discipline.

The draft Regulations on Punishing Errant Military Personnel being deliberated by the National People's...

Army drawn into adopting rule of law

BEIJING has taken a small step towards promoting the 'rule of law' in the military by propagating legal education in the People's Liberation Army (PLA).