CHINA-INTERNAL: PLA/ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN
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Hong Kong's South China Morning Post on November 16, 2014, reported that Vice Admiral Ma Faxiang, Deputy Commissar of the PLA Navy (PLAN) had committed suicide by leaping from a PLAN office complex in Beijing on November 13, 2014. Earlier, on September 2, 2014, Rear Admiral Jiang Zhonghua of the PLAN South Sea Fleet's Armaments Department, jumped to his death from a hotel building in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province. Vice Admiral Ma Faxiang made his last public appearance on October 22, 2014, when he greeted the PLAN's 17th escort task force on its return from the Gulf of Aden to Zhoushan, its home port. Ma Faxiang was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral in 2005 and to the rank of Vice Admiral on August 1, 2012.
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