File photo of Chinese senior military officer Miao Hua. The Chinese top legislature voted to remove Miao Hua from the Central Military Commission. , Photo Credit: AP
According to a statement published by the State News Agency on Friday (June 27, 2025), the top Legislature of China has voted for senior military commission from the Central Military Commission, the Central Military Commission from the Central Military Commission to vote for the removal of its highest level of military command body. Xinhua.
The 69 -year -old Miao was placed under investigation in November for “serious violations of discipline”. The former political ideology head of the People’s Liberation Army was also suspended from his post.
Xinhua There was no other details in the statement, but this step is in another stage in the ongoing anti -corruption pays of the Chinese Army of President Xi Jinping, in which more than a dozen PLA generals and a handful of defense industry officials have been implicated.
The photo of Miao was removed from the senior leadership page of the Chinese Defense website in recent weeks. According to a communal issued by the Legislature last month, he was also removed from the National Legislature of China for “discipline and serious violation of law”.
The statement said, “The Department of Political Affairs of the Central Military Commission held a military representative conference on March 14 this year and decided to remove Miao Hua from his post as a representative of the 14th national people.”
Miao, according to her official biography, when Xi worked as a local officer, Miao was posted in the coastal province. Mr. Xi personally raised Miao to the Central Military Commission.
Another Central Military Commission member and second place in China has not been seen publicly since the closing ceremony of the annual parliamentary sessions in General, Wedong, Beijing on 11 March. Since then, he has not appeared in a range of high-level polit bureau and military public busyness.
He is the third most powerful commander of the People’s Liberation Army and is considered a close associate of the Army Commander-in-Chief President Xi Jinping.
China’s Ministry of Defense said that it was unaware of the reports that were detained in March. His picture remains on the website of the Ministry of Defense.
Two former Chinese defense ministers have been removed from the Communist Party for corruption. One of them, Lee Shangfu, was suspected of corruption in military procurement, Reuters have reported.
Last year, the Ministry of Defense denied reports that Defense Minister Dong June was being investigated on suspicion of corruption. This week, Dongs have been present in public events, attending the meeting of the Defense Ministers of Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Kingdao.
Published – June 27, 2025 02:24 pm IST