{"id":2472,"date":"2026-02-27T07:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:37:09","slug":"china-removes-19-lawmakers-including-nine-military-officials-ahead-of-key-political-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/02\/27\/china-removes-19-lawmakers-including-nine-military-officials-ahead-of-key-political-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"China Removes 19 Lawmakers, Including Nine Military Officials Ahead of Key Political Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has removed 19 officials \u2014 including nine senior military figures \u2014 from its list of national lawmakers ahead of its major annual political gathering next week.<\/p><p>The decision was announced by the\u00a0National People&#8217;s Congress<strong>\u00a0(<\/strong>NPC) Standing Committee. While no official reason was provided, the move comes amid continued anti-corruption efforts under President\u00a0Xi Jinping.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Military Officials Among Those Removed<\/h3><p>State media reports indicate that those removed include:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Li Qiaoming<\/strong>, commander of the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) Ground Force<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Shen Jinlong<\/strong>, former PLA Navy commander<\/li><\/ul><p>Several other senior military officers and provincial officials were also dismissed, including Sun Shaochong, former party chief of Inner Mongolia.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Broader Anti-Corruption Drive<\/h3><p>The removals follow the recent dismissal of senior general Zhang Youxia, reportedly over \u201cserious violations of discipline and law\u201d \u2014 a phrase commonly associated with corruption allegations.<\/p><p>Since assuming power in 2013, Xi Jinping has led sweeping anti-corruption campaigns, often described as targeting both high-ranking \u201ctigers\u201d and low-level \u201cflies.\u201d While Beijing maintains the campaign strengthens party discipline, critics argue it may also serve to consolidate political control.<\/p><p>The latest action comes ahead of China\u2019s most significant annual political event, where top policy priorities and leadership signals are closely watched both domestically and internationally.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has removed 19 officials \u2014 including nine senior military figures \u2014 from its list of national lawmakers ahead of its major annual political gathering next week. The decision was announced by the\u00a0National People&#8217;s Congress\u00a0(NPC) Standing Committee. While no official reason was provided, the move comes amid continued anti-corruption efforts under President\u00a0Xi Jinping. Military Officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international-en"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}