China picked former navy chief Dong Jun as its new protection minister on Friday, roughly 4 months after the final occupant of the put up disappeared.
Chinese language state media reported the transfer Friday, citing a call from the Standing Committee of China’s Nationwide Folks’s Congress.
Dong Jun, who strikes from heading up the Folks’s Liberation Military Navy, is a former vice commander of the Southern Theater Command, which patrols the disputed South China Sea — a key potential flashpoint between China, Taiwan and the West.
The appointment is the most recent twist in Chinese language President Xi Jinping’s purge of key posts within the nation’s ultra-secretive political system.
China’s earlier Protection Minister Li Shangfu went lacking in August, as his ministry abruptly canceled a go to to Vietnam deliberate for September citing ”well being circumstances.” Two months after his unexplained disappearance he was fired from his put up with none additional clarification of his whereabouts or a attainable alternative.
China’s Overseas Minister Qin Gang was additionally sacked in July — a month after going lacking — and barely six months after turning into minister. China’s high diplomat and Politburo member Wang Yi changed him in July, and Beijing erased any traces of Qin from the international ministry’s web site inside hours of the reshuffle.
On Friday, the Standing Committee of China’s Nationwide Folks’s Congress additionally introduced that it had moved Minister of Civil Affairs Tang Dengjie, and changed him with Lu Zhiyuan, in response to Chinese language state media. Minister of Tradition and Tourism Hu Heping was additionally eliminated in favor of Solar Yeli.