CCP Lieutenant General Sacked--Liu Yuan's First Axe

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As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s 18th congress
draws near, its internal fighting has also spread to the army.
General Liu Yuan, the son of former CCP leader Liu Shaoqi,
openly addressed fighting against military corruption.
And from the General Logistics Department—a chief organ
of the CCP People's Liberation Army(PLA)—Vice Minister Gu Junshan was sacked.

On the 5th day of the Chinese New Year,
there came exposure of sensational news.
The Vice Minister of the PLA's General Logistics Department,
Gu Junshan, had been removed from his post.
Gu is now under CCP investigation for breaching disciplinary;
another high-level army official, sacked for corruption.

Gu Junshan had been minister of infrastructure department
at the CCP PLA's General Logistics Department—
a unit responsible for constructing camps for the entire army
and for the acquisition and replacement of military land.
Holding such a post was considered as having real power
within the army.

Hong Kong's Oriental Daily reported, Lieutenant General
Gu Junshan, earned huge profit from land transfers.
"Think tank" of General Liu Yuan, Zhang Musheng,
had previously disclosed the inside story.
The PLA lieutenant general was said to have sold Shanghai-
downtown military land for RMB 2,000 million per acre.
The land valuation suggested RMB 20 million per acre;
all profit above that figure fell into the general's own pocket.
Zhang says Gu Junshan did the same deal
in over a dozen provinces across China.
Gu was said to always take a special plane when going out.

He disbanded the army's demolition office, leaving his
three henchmen in charge of the demolition business.
Gu Junshan had personally given out 400 high-grade
buildings to senior army retirees as gifts, according to Zhang.

Former Beijing Air Force Logistics Colonel, Cai Xuewen,
reviews the phenomenon.
In today's China, "money is all-powerful",
plus power is over-concentrated.
All these breed corruption in the army,
making it difficult to control the troops.

Cai Xuewen: "The army's power is quite concentrated.
Some specific official general gives the final say.
He has such power and can control the finance."

According to political commentator, Wu Fan, Gu Junshan's
background lies in the CCP Central Military Commission.
Gu used bribery to build a political circle of powerful patrons.
For example, facing the General Logistics Dept's opposition,
Gu was directly named as vice minister by
the Central Military Commission, which is very revealing.

Wu Fan: "The army officers bribed their boss with money and
beautiful women to gain protection and career promotion. Gu Junshan just took this path."


NTD reporters Chang Chun, Song Feng and Xiao Yan

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[rcharlesish]

Dream on, the CCP is extremely unlikely to "collapse". It may be forced to modify in the coming decades, or the factions will split and form "parties", but the overall look and feel will be not different to the corrupt and nepotistic politics of SE Asian countries - Korea, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan etc.