Zhang Shengmin (; born February 1958) is a general of the Chinese

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. He is a member of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and Secretary of the CMC Commission for Discipline Inspection. He is also a Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the top anti-corruption agency of China.

Career

Zhang Shengmin was born in 1958; his

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is in

Wugong County Wugong County is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xianyang, in the central part of Shaanxi province, China. Tai was also one of the ancestral homes of the royal Ji clan of the Zhou dynasty The Zhou dynasty ( ...

Shaanxi Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see § Name) is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichuan (SW), Gansu (W), N ...

Province. Zhang Shengmin spent most his career as a political commissar in the Second Artillery Force (now the

). He served as Political Commissar of the Second Artillery Force Command Academy, and then of a missile base of the Second Artillery Force. In 2010, when he was posted at a military base in Northwest China, he led more than 1,000 troops in the reconstruction work immediately after the

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Province. His unit helped to build emergency living quarters for the monks at the Changu Monastery (), the largest

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Tibetan Buddhist temple in

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. In January 2017, Zhang was appointed Secretary of

Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Military Commission The Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Military Commission (; abbreviated CMCCDI) is the top disciplinary organ of the Central Military Commission of China. The CMCCDI has "dual responsibility" to the Central Commission for Di ...

. He replaced General

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, who was closely associated with the former CMC vice-chairmen

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and

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, both of whom had been investigated for corruption. During the

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in October 2017, Zhang was elected a member of the 19th Central Committee. He was also made one of the four members of the Central Military Commission and one of the eight deputy secretaries of the

Central Commission for Discipline Inspection The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) is the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), tasked with enforcing internal rules and regulations and combating corruption and malfeasance in the pa ...

, which is in charge of investigating corruption by Communist Party members. A week later, on 2 November 2017, Zhang was promoted to the rank of general (''

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'') by CMC chairman

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References

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