Military urged to step up the law as it embarks on modernization
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China’s military can only achieve its modernization goals if it respects the law, the Central Military Commission said yesterday, offering a warning to the armed forces which have reeled from a series of corruption scandals.
Investigations are underway into more than a dozen senior military officials with many of those implicated having ties to a scandal involving former top military officer Xu Caihou, who retired as vice chairman of the Central Military Commission in 2013.
Authorities announced last year they were investigating Xu for graft.
In the latest call to the military to uphold the law, the commission, which is headed by President Xi Jinping, said the armed forces were a crucial part of overall efforts to boost the rule of law.
“A modern country by necessity is one that follows rule of law, and a modern military is by necessity one that has rule of law,” the commission said in an order approved by Xi.
“The more modern the military is, the more informatized it is, the more it needs to follow the rule of law,” it said.
Xi has vowed to eradicate corruption in the 2.3 million-strong armed forces which are in the midst of an ambitious modernization program, including the development of anti-satellite missiles and stealth jets.
The commission’s latest order made no specific mention of corruption cases nor offered new guidance on how to fight graft. Instead, it urged the armed forces to “dare to assume the historic revolutionary mission of the new generation and proactively throw yourselves into the great practice of a military which follows the law.”
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