The announcement that the fourth major general of the PLA was dismissed as a delegate to the National People’s Congress did not say “resignation” but “resignation.”

The meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China was held in Beijing on the 6th. Nine NPC deputies were disqualified, including Ye Jianchun, former governor of Jiangxi province, who has been out of office for more than two months, and fourPeople’s Liberation Army and armed police forces. But what is different from the usual is that the four people mentioned in the announcement have all “resigned” from their positions as deputies of the National People’s Congress, rather than being dismissed.Removal .

The 25th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People’s Congress of China was held in Beijing on the 6th. Xinhua News Agency was authorized to issue an announcement that the Election Committee of the National Defense Mobilization Department of the Central Military Commission has decided to accept the resignations of Zhang Gong and Guo Jianjun as delegates. The Navy Election Committee decided to accept Wu Yuhong’s resignation as representative. The Armed Police Forces Election Committee decided to accept the resignation of Meng Qingbin as representative.

Hong Kong Ming Pao reported that Zhang Gong is the commander of the Guangdong Provincial Military Region and a rear admiral of the navy, Guo Jianjun is the former political commissar of the Ningxia Military Region and a major general of the Rocket Force, Wu Yuhong is a rear admiral of the navy, and Meng Qingbin is the former political commissar of the Gansu Provincial Military Region and a major general of the army.

Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao reported that Zhang Zhizhong, a professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Kenan University, analyzed that the four men “resigned” from their positions as deputies of the National People’s Congress. This was similar to the situation in 2024 when former Foreign Minister Qin Gang resigned from his post as a deputy to the National People’s Congress. He speculated that four military major generals may have been involved in violations, but no wrongdoing has been found, so they have been dealt with by resigning their posts as deputies of the National People’s Congress, and they may be demoted or demoted.

According to public data, the number of representatives of the People’s Liberation Army and the Armed Police Forces in the National People’s Congress has dropped from 281 to 229 at the beginning of 2023, a decrease of 52 people. Among them, 50 delegates have exhausted their qualifications, and another 2 have been transferred from the military delegation to the local delegation.

Additionally, those who were dismissed from their positions as deputies of the National People’s Congress along with Ye Jianchun include He Xiong, former deputy general secretary and director of the General Office of the Henan Provincial Government, Ji Tao, general manager of China Tobacco Hunan Industry, and Huang Yi, chairman of Sichuan Tianfu Bank. Xu Renbiao, the former mayor of Zhoushan city in Zhejiang province, resigned as deputy to the National People’s Congress.

In addition, 12 people have been appointed as vice chairmen of six special committees of the National People’s Congress, including several provincial and ministerial cadres who have recently resigned from local leadership positions and “retired to the second line.” Which includes former mayor of Shanghai Gong Zheng, former secretary of Hunan Provincial Party Committee Shen Xiaoming etc.