With much focus on the 19th National Congress and who Chinese leader Xi Jinping will appoint to the party’s top leadership positions, a Chinese official has quietly provided clues to the scale of Xi’s anti-corruption probe into the Chinese military in the five years since he took power.
Speaking at a news conference on Oct. 19, a day after the opening day of the congress, Yang Xiaodu, China’s Minister of Supervision, said there have been investigations into 440 high-level Party officials who either held a provincial-level military position or were directly under the supervision of the central authorities, since the 18th National Congress when Xi was appointed leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
