https://www.scmp.com/rss/313254/feed Xu Caihou, born in 1943, is a former vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, with the rank of a general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He was expelled from the Communist Party in June 2014 and is under investigation for the suspicion of accepting bribes. He is the most senior military official to be expelled and investigated in Chinese president Xi Jinping's anti-graft campaign. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Josephine Ma Josephine Ma China has accused the nine generals expelled from the Communist Party on Friday of seriously undermining the principle that the military should be loyal to the party, saying that they dealt a serious blow to the unity of the armed forces and the image of senior officers. In an editorial published on Saturday, military mouthpiece PLA Daily said the disgraced nine – including He Weidong, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and a member of the 24-man Politburo – had been... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3329511/expelled-chinese-generals-disloyal-and-dealt-serious-blow-army-pla-daily?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3329511/expelled-chinese-generals-disloyal-and-dealt-serious-blow-army-pla-daily?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 Oct 2025 08:30:26 +0000 More than 70 serving and retired senior officers with the People’s Liberation Army have been demoted for their involvement in a corruption scandal that has rocked the PLA leadership, military sources said. The officers – who included at least one general and two lieutenant generals – were punished for their connections to Fang Fenghui, the former chief of joint staff. Their demotions were based on confessions given by Fang, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in February for taking bribes,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3016059/chinas-military-demotes-over-70-senior-officers-bribing-fang?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3016059/chinas-military-demotes-over-70-senior-officers-bribing-fang?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Jun 2019 14:30:16 +0000 The life sentence imposed on Guo Boxiong (郭伯雄), the highest-ranking military officer to be jailed for corruption since the Communists seized power in 1949, may mark significant progress for President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) anti-graft campaign. But, at the same time, his indictment – and the fall of grace of a fellow vice-chairman of the all-powerful Central Military Commission, General Xu Caihou (徐才厚), who died of cancer in 2015 before he could answer corruption charges – have also exposed the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2001248/just-jailing-corrupt-generals-wont-give-china-clean-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2001248/just-jailing-corrupt-generals-wont-give-china-clean-and?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Aug 2016 06:39:38 +0000 Gu Junshan, former deputy logistics chief of the People’s Liberation Army, has been given a suspended death sentence with a two-year reprieve by the military court for corruption. Gu, charged with embezzlement, bribery, misuse of state funds and abuse of power, was stripped of his political rights for life as well as his military rank of lieutenant general, Xinhua reported. All his personal property was also seized. The detention of Gu, 58, in 2012 marked the start of the corruption crackdown in... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1848264/chinas-disgraced-pla-general-gu-junshan-given-suspended?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1848264/chinas-disgraced-pla-general-gu-junshan-given-suspended?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:15:45 +0000 The PLA's chief prosecutor has been promoted in a move one observer said would boost efforts to fight military graft and was a reward for his role in handling the case of Xu Caihou, the disgraced former top general. A programme aired by China Central Television on Friday showed footage of Major General Li Xiaofeng attending a People's Liberation Army General Political Department work meeting last Wednesday. The 60-year-old was shown wearing a uniform that indicated he had been promoted to deputy... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1636014/graft-fight-sees-pla-prosecutor-li-xiaofeng-promoted?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1636014/graft-fight-sees-pla-prosecutor-li-xiaofeng-promoted?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 09 Nov 2014 22:15:30 +0000 President Xi Jinping has called on the military to reflect on discipline and uphold its revolutionary tradition in the wake of a corruption scandal involving a fomer top general. Xi ordered more than 400 senior military officials, including leaders of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the army's four headquarters and seven key military commands as well as heads of military-related organisations to gather in the historically significant town of Gutian in Fujian province for a two-day... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1630043/xi-jinping-calls-pla-remember-past-fight-against-graft?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1630043/xi-jinping-calls-pla-remember-past-fight-against-graft?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Nov 2014 12:45:30 +0000 Military prosecutors yesterday said they would charge a retired top general with bribery after a seven-month investigation, making it the most high-profile anti-corruption case in the history of the People’s Liberation Army. Xu Caihou, former vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) which is the mainland’s supreme command, was stripped of all military titles, Xinhua reported. He confessed to taking “extremely large” amounts of bribes through family members to help others gain... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1627096/former-top-general-xu-caihou-charged-bribery-offences?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1627096/former-top-general-xu-caihou-charged-bribery-offences?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:21:32 +0000 When President Xi Jinping officiates at today's celebration of the 65th anniversary of the founding of the people's republic, two other approaching events will no doubt loom in his mind. Top party officials gather this month for the Central Committee's fourth plenum, and next month Xi meets world leaders as China hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Beijing. Both offer Xi a platform to show his administration's progress in tackling corruption and bolstering the party's... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1604859/xi-jinping-has-ambition-push-through-sweeping-changes-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1604859/xi-jinping-has-ambition-push-through-sweeping-changes-china?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:15:15 +0000 The fate of two major generals linked to a high-ranking PLA officer under investigation for corruption are in doubt amid a reshuffle of personnel that suggests disloyal officers are being purged, analysts say. Recent changes in the senior ranks have taken place in the Lanzhou and Shenyang military commands, the power bases of Xu Caihou. Xu is a former vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission. In one recent case, Major General Xu Yuanlin, the former political department director of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1604937/associates-disgraced-pla-general-xu-caihou-may-have-been-purged?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1604937/associates-disgraced-pla-general-xu-caihou-may-have-been-purged?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:13:08 +0000 A former deputy logistics chief of the People's Liberation Army was charged with corruption yesterday as the party launches a massive drive to clean up the military. Lieutenant General Gu Junshan was charged with embezzlement, bribery, misuse of state funds and abuse of power by China's military procuratorate, or prosecutor's office. He is the highest-ranking officer to stand trial on such charges since Vice-Admiral Wang Shouye in 2006, who received a suspended death sentence for... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1461810/pla-general-gu-junshan-faces-court-martial-prosecutors-press-four-graft?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1461810/pla-general-gu-junshan-faces-court-martial-prosecutors-press-four-graft?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:25:45 +0000