New Delhi: Nine senior officials from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), including He Weidong, the second vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), were purged last week as President Xi Jinping expanded the drive to root out corruption within the Chinese military.

He Weidong, who has been missing since March, was the third most powerful member of the PLA and also a member of the all-powerful Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). General He has been expelled from the CPC for violating party discipline and “serious crimes” while on duty, including corruption involving “large amounts”, according to an editorial in PLA Daily , the official newspaper of the Chinese military.

“Expulsion from the Party and transfer of sus

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