China has promoted Zhang Shengmin, the military’s anti-graft chief, to vice-chair of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), which is headed by President Xi Jinping.
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And Zhang Fengzhong, a senior general with the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force, has been placed under investigation for corruption, according to a communique of the fourth plenary session of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, which concluded on Thursday. Zhang Fengzhong was an alternate member of the Central Committee.
The notice of the major reshuffle announced the promotion of Zhang Shengmin, 67, who is secretary of the CMC’s Commission for Discipline Inspection, overseeing anti-corruption efforts within China’s armed forces.
He served in a group army in the northwestern province of Shaanxi for many years.
From 2004 to 2015, he worked within China’s nuclear forces, the Second Artillery Corps – the former name of the Rocket Force. In his last year there, he was director of its political department, a key position overseeing ideological and personnel affairs.
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Subsequently, he worked in the CMC’s Training and Administration Department and Logistics Support Department until being promoted in 2017 to a seat on the CMC.
