Beijing orders termination of commercial activities to fight corruption

BEIJING: Termination of the Chin­ese military’s commercial activities will strongly lessen incentives for military-related corruption while consolidating the PLA’s combat capability, military experts said.

“Some commercial fields engaged in by the People’s Liberation Army units are actually prone to corruption and other misconduct. The corruption case of Gu Junshan and those of other senior officers were closely connected to their involvement in businesses,” said Senior Colonel Gong Fangbin, a political education researcher at PLA National Defense University, referring to Gu, former deputy head of the PLA’s logistics authority, who was imprisoned in an embezzlement and bribery case.