On the eve of the Chinese New Year, two top generals in the Western Theater Command, Commander Wang Haijiang and Political Commissar Li Fengbiao, were both absent from the annual Sichuan military forum held to celebrate the Spring Festival. Wang Haijiang has previously missed important events such as the Fourth Plenum, leading to speculation that he is under investigation.
According to the Sichuan Daily, on February 12, 2026, the annual Sichuan military forum to celebrate the Spring Festival was held in Chengdu. Senior officials including Wang Xiaohui, the Secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, and Shi Xiaolin, the Governor of the province, met with leaders from the Western Theater Command, Major General and Deputy Political Commissar Zhang Shaoying, and Major General and Deputy Commander Wen Junfei, who are stationed in Sichuan.
The Western Theater Command is one of the five major military regions of the People’s Liberation Army; its headquarters are located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
Wang Haijiang was appointed as the Commander of the Western Theater Command in August 2021, becoming a full-ranking officer of the theater command. In September 2021, he was promoted to the rank of General. Li Fengbiao was appointed as the Political Commissar of the Western Theater Command in July 2021 after serving as the Commander of the Strategic Support Force.
Over the past four years, on January 27, 2022, February 7, 2024, and January 26, 2025, both Wang Haijiang and Li Fengbiao attended the annual Sichuan military forum to celebrate the Spring Festival, with Wang Haijiang delivering speeches during the discussions.
On January 17, 2023, the Sichuan military forum to celebrate the Spring Festival was held in Chengdu. Li Fengbiao, the Political Commissar of the Western Theater Command, attended and delivered a speech, while Wang Haijiang, the Commander, was absent.
The rare simultaneous absence of Commander Wang Haijiang and Political Commissar Li Fengbiao from the 2026 Sichuan military forum to celebrate the Spring Festival has garnered attention.
During the Fourth Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party in October 2025, 22 Central Committee members were conspicuously absent, with 18 of them being military Central Committee members, including Commander Wang Haijiang of the Western Theater Command.
On September 30, 2025, an unnamed “relevant leader from the Western Theater Command” attended the Martyrs’ Memorial Day ceremony in Sichuan; footage from the event showed a Major General representing the military.
Wang Haijiang had previously attended Martyrs’ Memorial Day ceremonies from 2022 to 2024 and was prominently mentioned in official media reports.
Former mainland Chinese media figure Zhao Lanjian revealed on a platform in March 2025 that Commander Wang Haijiang, along with other high-ranking military officers, such as Wang Peng, Minister of the Training and Management Department of the Central Military Commission, Wang Zhongcai, Commander of the Eastern Theater Command Navy, and Ding Laifu, Commander of the 73rd Group Army, were under investigation.
Li Fengbiao, born in October 1959 in Anxin, Hebei Province, has held various positions in the military, including Commander of the 44th Airborne Division, Commander of the 15th Army, Deputy Commander of the Chengdu Military Region, Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Central Theater Command, and Commander of the Strategic Support Force.
At 67 years of age, Li Fengbiao’s absence from the Sichuan military forum celebrating the Spring Festival may be due to retirement or other unknown reasons.
Wang Haijiang, born in October 1963 in Anyue County, Ziyang City, Sichuan Province, participated in the Lanzhou Military Region’s conflict with Vietnam early in his career. He later served as the secretary to the former Commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, Li Qianyuan, and had a long career in the Lanzhou Military Region and the Chengdu Military Region (now the Western Theater Command).
Wang Haijiang has connections with former military leaders who have fallen from grace, such as Guo Boxiong, former Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Fang Fenghui, former member of the Central Military Commission.
In the 2026 Sichuan military forum celebrating the Spring Festival, Zhang Shaoying made his first public appearance as a Major General, Deputy Political Commissar, and Chief of the Political Work Department of the Western Theater Command; Wen Junfei made his first public appearance as a Major General and Deputy Commander of the Western Theater Command.
Zhang Shaoying’s age and military background details are unknown. During the Two Sessions in 2023, he was interviewed by the official Chinese media as a National People’s Congress representative and Political Commissar of a Rocket Force unit.
Wen Junfei’s age is undisclosed, and he has previously served as the Commander of an Air Force Division in the former Lanzhou Military Region and Commander of an Air Force Base in the Western Theater Command. In December 2019, he was promoted from Air Force Colonel to Air Force Brigadier General.
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