Last month saw several high-ranking officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) relieved of their positions as National People’s Congress (NPC) delegates, including Sun Bin, the chief auditor of the Central Military Commission Audit Office, and Yuan Huazhi, the former political commissar of the navy. Yesterday, on the 28th, the CCP officially announced that these two individuals were removed from their posts due to “serious violations of discipline and law.”
On November 28th, the NPC Standing Committee of the CCP released Bulletin No. 6 of 2025, which included the report on the qualifications of individual representatives approved during the 18th meeting of the 14th NPC Standing Committee.
For the first time, the bulletin revealed that Sun Bin, the former chief auditor of the Central Military Commission Audit Office, was removed from his position as an NPC delegate for reasons related to “serious violations of discipline and law.”
Yuan Huazhi, who had already been removed as an NPC delegate last month, was also dismissed for reasons of “serious violations of discipline and law,” according to the NPC Standing Committee’s bulletin from yesterday.
Yuan Huazhi had been expelled from the Party and the military for “serious violations of discipline and law” at the Fourth Plenary Session in October. He was previously a member of the 20th Central Committee.
Although former Secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, Xu Dazhe, was also relieved of his position as an NPC delegate on October 28th, the reasons for his removal were not disclosed in the NPC bulletin dated November 28th.
Xu Dazhe, who is an NPC Standing Committee member, had been absent from NPC meetings since the end of last year. Several high-ranking officials from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, where Xu Dazhe had served, have also been implicated in corruption investigations.
In the past two years, many senior military officials personally promoted by Xi Jinping have been dismissed, indicating ongoing efforts to root out corruption within the Party.
On November 25th, the CCP’s military newspaper published an article titled “Completely Cutting Out the Tumors, Clearing the Source of Toxins, and Purifying the Flow of Poison.” Commentator Zhou Xiaohui wrote for the Epoch Times that this article opened by noting “corruption is a social tumor and a governance challenge faced by countries around the world,” which seemed like an excuse for the CCP to intensify its anti-corruption efforts. However, without independent oversight, the CCP is unlikely to effectively eradicate corruption.
Zhou Xiaohui pointed out that signs of Xi Jinping’s weakening power have become increasingly evident over the past year, with his trusted allies either being investigated, reassigned, or seeing their influence reduced. Left and right-hand men like He Weidong and Miao Hua in the military, personally promoted by Xi, serve as concrete examples of this trend.