China's anti-corruption probe into top general Zhang Youxia and other senior officials will "remove roadblocks" and strengthen the country's military, state media said Monday (February 2, 2026).
The Defence Ministry said last month it was investigating Mr. Zhang, the Vice Chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), as well as Liu Zhenli, Chief of Staff of the CMC's joint staff department, which oversees combat planning.
The pair are the latest to fall under a sweeping drive to root out graft at all levels of the Chinese Communist Party and state since President Xi Jinping came to power more than a decade ago. The Ministry did not say why the probe into Mr. Zhang and Mr. Liu had been opened.
However, the PLA Daily — the Chinese military's mouthpiece — said they were "corrupt elements" in a front-page editorial published Monday (February 2).
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