Xu Qi’s Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Committee or a promoted member of the Military Commission to take over as Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff of the Military Commission
[Epoch Times, October 28, 2021](Hong Kong Epoch Times reporter Dongfang Hao comprehensive report) On the eve of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China, General Xu Qiling, who had been commander of the Western Theater Command for only about two months, was exposed and assumed the new military commission. Joint Staff. The Communist Party of China has publicized and let go, and the Central Military Commission may be reorganized ahead of schedule. According to analysis by current political commentators, Xu Qiling is likely to replace 68-year-old Li Zuocheng as chief of staff of the Joint Staff of the Military Commission and a member of the Military Commission at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Committee.
From October 25 to 26, 2021, the CCP’s military equipment work conference was held in Beijing. According to a report on the mainland’s Caixin.com, the CCTV news network report screen showed that General Xu Qiling attended the meeting wearing the armband of the Joint Staff of the Central Military Commission.
According to a CCTV news broadcast report, three generals attended the meeting, namely Zhang Youxia, Vice Chairman of the Military Commission, and Li Shangfu, and Xu Qiling, Minister of the Equipment Development Department of the Military Commission. Zhang Youxia and Li Shangfu sat on the rostrum, and Xu Qiling sat down. When CCTV reported, the camera was first given to Zhang Youxia, who was speaking on the rostrum, and then to Xu Qiling, who was in the audience. After scanning, the generals returned to the rostrum and showed Zhang Youxia and Li Shangfu in the same frame.
The current Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China is General Li Zuocheng, and 4 deputy chiefs of staff, including Xu Qiling, Lieutenant General Shao Yuanming of Rocket Army, Lieutenant General Li Jun of Rocket Army and Lieutenant General Wu Yanan; 5 assistants to the Chief of Staff, including Major generals Han Xiaodong, Wu Junbao, Wu Xingfeng, Zhu Xiaosong and Lin Qingguo.
At present, the CCP has not given Xu Qiling’s public appointment as deputy chief of staff of the Joint Staff of the Military Commission.
Xu Qiling served as commander of the Western Theater Command for only two months
Xu Qiling was born in July 1962 in Huaiyang, Henan. He served as the deputy director of the Civil Air Defense Office of the Jinan Military Region and the deputy director of the Operations Department of the Jinan Military Region. He later served as Chief of Staff of the 54th Army of the Army. Since the military reform, Xu Qiling has served successively in the central, northern, eastern, and western theater armies. He was also one of the first commanders of the group army after the adjustment and formation.
In 2016, he served as deputy commander of the Army in the Central Theater. In March 2017, he served as commander of the 79th Army of the Army. In December 2018, he was promoted to commander of the Eastern Theater Army. In December 2019, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. As the tension between China and India escalated, in April 2020, Xu Qiling was transferred to the commander of the Western Theater Army; in July 2021, he was promoted to the commander of the Western Theater Command and promoted to general.
Xu Qiling is the third commander of the Western Theater Command. The previous two were Zhao Zongqi and Zhang Xudong. Zhao Zongqi, the first commander and member of the 19th Central Committee, has served since the establishment of the Five Great War Zones in February 2016. He will resign at the end of 2020 when he reaches 65 years of age. In February 2021, he will be transferred to the Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress.
Zhang Xudong, the second commander, served only about half a year from December 2020 to July 2021, and was promoted to general in December 2020. On October 21, 2021, the Xinhua News Agency of the Communist Party of China announced that Comrade Zhang Xudong, a full-time member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Central Military Commission, died of illness in Beijing on October 1 at the age of 58 years old.
Xu Qiling, the third commander, served only about two months from July to September 2021. In September 2021, Wang Haijiang, then commander of the Xinjiang Military Region, took over as commander of the Western Theater Command and was promoted to general.
Two major exercises in the Western Theater
It is worth noting that during Xu Qi’s zero-term command, two major exercises were held in the western theater. Li Zuocheng, Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff of the Military Commission, served as the chief director of one of the exercises.
During the Beidaihe Meeting of the Communist Party of China, from August 9th to 13th, 2021, the “Western·Joint-2021” exercise was held at the Army’s Qingtongxia Contract Tactical Training Base. Li Zuocheng, member of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China and Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff of the Military Commission, served as the chief director of the exercise. Liu Xiaowu, deputy commander of the Western Theater Command, served as the commander of the joint command, and Nosulev, deputy commander of the Russian Eastern Military Region, served as the deputy commander of the joint command.
According to a report by the Chinese Communist Party’s official media, China and Russia sent a total of more than 10,000 troops to invest in multi-type aircraft, artillery, and armored equipment to perform modern joint operations. Wei Fenghe, State Councilor and Minister of Defense of the Communist Party of China, and Russian Defense Minister Shoigu observed the actual military operation drills, held talks, and witnessed the signing of cooperation documents.
In addition, the official Weibo of “China Military Television Network” released relevant texts and videos on August 26, 2021, stating that more than a dozen brigades under the Tibet Military Region are conducting joint three-dimensional operations around plateaus and mountains on a snow-covered plateau at an altitude of 4,500 meters. Snow Mission-2021″ Multi-arms full-time, full-area, and full-factor cross-day and night live ammunition exercises.
The Central Military Commission was reorganized ahead of schedule?
Before and after the Beidaihe meeting in 2021, Xi Jinping was promoted to general on a rare occasion: the first time was on July 5th, including Wang Xiubin, commander of the southern theater, Xu Qiling, commander of the western theater, Liu Zhenli, commander of the army, and Ju Gan, commander of the strategic support force. Were born, and all four of them made their debut as new identities.
The second time was on September 6, including Wang Haijiang, commander of the Western Theater, Lin Xiangyang, commander of the Central Theater, Dong Jun, commander of the Navy, Chang Dingqiu, commander of the Air Force, and Xu Xueqiang, president of the National Defense University. Appeared in a new identity.
This also means that in the recent summer personnel exchange of the CCP’s military, the land, sea, air, and strategic support forces, as well as the southern, western, and central parts of the five major war zones, as well as the National Defense University, the only military academy in the main war zone, Change coaches together.
Duowei.com, headquartered in Beijing, issued an article on September 9, 2021, “How many generals of the People’s Liberation Army were deployed in advance by the Central Military Commission? “. According to the article, 2021 has become the biggest year for the CCP’s military in non-renewal years, laying too many abnormal “foreshadowings” or implying a higher level of personnel layout.
According to the article, Xu Qiling was born in July 1962. In June, he had just replaced Zhang Xudong, who was commander of the Western Theater Command in December 2020. He stepped down after two months in his new post. This has aroused many interpretations from the outside world. According to the news, Xu Qiling’s short-term ruling in the western theater of power quickly stepped down, not because of physical reasons like Zhang Xudong, but another possibility.
Similarly, the former Central Theater Commander Yi Xiaoguang (born in June 1958) and the former President of the National Defense University Zheng He (November 1958) are far from the age of retiring generals in the war zone.
The article stated that this large-scale adjustment of generals in the war zone will inevitably affect higher-level linkages. The four generals Ding Laihang, Xu Qiling, Yi Xiaoguang, and Zheng He who have just stepped down from important positions “dismissed class early” nearly a year before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. This is expected to be directly related to the possible early reorganization of the Central Military Commission. .
At present, the youngest member of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China is Zhang Shengmin, secretary of the Disciplinary Committee of the Military Commission, born in 1958, or remains a member of the Military Commission at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, while other constituents face extensive exchanges.
For the sake of convergence, Beijing is not without the possibility of adjusting the composition of individual members of the Military Commission in advance. As early as the Seventh Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 2012, the CCP made an exception to add Fan Changlong and Xu Qiliang to the Central Military Commission, forming a rare situation where four vice-chairmen of the Central Military Commission coexist.
Xu Qi’s Sixth Plenary Session may be promoted to a member of the Military Commission
On the eve of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Xu Qiling wore the armband of the Joint Staff of the Central Military Commission to publicly appear at the military high-level meeting, indicating that he was serving the Joint Staff of the New Military Commission.
Current political commentator Li Yanming analyzed that in the CCTV news broadcast report, the camera was first given to General Xu Qiling, who was sitting in the audience, and then to General Li Shangfu, the head of the Military Commission’s Equipment Development Department, who was sitting on the stage. It was intriguing; it showed that he had served in the Western Theater. Although the commander-in-chief General Xu Qiling and General Li Shangfu, head of the Equipment Development Department of the Military Commission, are both at the theater level, Xu Qiling ranks ahead of Li Shangfu.
According to Li Yanming’s analysis, among the current chiefs of the Joint Staff of the Military Commission, Chief of Staff Li Zuocheng is a general and a member of the Military Commission; except for Xu Qiling, the other deputy chiefs of staff and assistant chiefs of staff are all lieutenants or major generals. The Joint Staff Headquarters of the Military Commission is the operational command organization of the entire military and is the core department of the Military Commission; Xu Qiling, the former commander of the Western Theater Command, serves in the Joint Staff Headquarters of the Military Commission as a theater-level general. Temporarily pave the way.
Li Yanming believes that Li Zuocheng was born in October 1953 and was 68 years old. Xu Qiling may soon succeed Li Zuocheng as the Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff of the Military Commission. Xu Qiling experienced a frontline confrontation between China and India when he was the commander of the Western Theater Command. He held two major exercises during his tenure as the commander of the Western Theater Command. These experiences helped Xi Jinping and Li Zuocheng choose him to take over the post of Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff of the Military Commission.
In 2021, the Two Sessions of the Communist Party of China will amend the Organic Law of the National People’s Congress. Among them, the newly added Article 31 reads: “When the National People’s Congress is not in session, the Standing Committee may decide on the appointment and removal of other members of the State Council based on the nomination of the Premier of the State Council; based on the nomination of the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, it may decide on the Central Military The appointment and removal of other members of the committee.” Subsequently, rumors about the adjustment of the Vice Premier of the State Council and the members of the Military Commission continued.
The Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China and the State Military Commission are “two brands, one set of people.” The members of the Central Military Commission appointed by the National People’s Congress or its Standing Committee belong to the State Military Commission; the members of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China need to be determined by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The appointment of the National People’s Congress or its Standing Committee is just a formality, and the members of the Central Military Commission decided by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China are labeled as the so-called National Central Military Commission. According to the Chinese Communist Party’s practice, the so-called NPC Standing Committee can appoint and remove members of the State Council and the Central Military Commission at any time, all of which need to be determined by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
From the two sessions to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2021, there are only two Central Committee meetings of the Sixth Plenary Session and the Seventh Plenary Session of the Central Committee. The Seventh Plenary Session is conventionally held one month before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Only the Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has realized the personnel arrangement of deputy state-level senior officials one year ahead of schedule.
The Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Committee to be held from November 8 to 11, 2021 is likely to involve the adjustment of Politburo members, members of the Military Commission and even the vice chairman of the Military Commission. The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress will appoint and remove the Vice Premier of the State Council and the National Military Commission accordingly. Members and even the vice chairman of the Military Commission.
Li Yanming believes that the Xi Jinping authorities will specially amend the “Organization Law of the National People’s Congress” at the two sessions in 2021. The purpose is obviously to determine a group of deputy state-level senior officials before the 20th National Congress and to get candidates for the Politburo in advance. Xu Qiling is likely to replace 68-year-old Li Zuocheng as Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff of the Military Commission at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
He analyzed that Xi Jinping’s reorganization of the Military Commission ahead of schedule will help strengthen the military power to deter political opponents, and escort the deployment of the twenty-five-day and high-level personnel. If the Sixth Plenary Session cannot make high-level personnel adjustments, it means that the Xi camp’s efforts to amend the “National People’s Congress Organic Law” at the beginning of the year have been in vain; this will be a major setback for Xi Jinping’s top 20 high-level personnel arrangement, and it will also mean that the top-level personnel Fighting is heated up and the situation is facing out of control.
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