The Global Times, a subsidiary of the CCP CC mouthpiece Peope's Daily, reported on January 15, 2015, that Major General Liu Jixing, President of the PLA Military Court, had been promoted the previous day to the level of Commander of a major military command.
The head of the PLA Procuratorate, Li Xiaofeng, was previously promoted to the same rank at the end of last year. Official media suggested that the promotions are likely linked to the future trials of those 15 high ranking PLA officers.
Last Fall, when two additional Vice Presidents of the PLA Military Court were appointed, the Chinese media commented that it was needed to strengthen the corps of senior military judges needed to try the most major PLA corruption cases.
(Comment: Major General Liu Jixing graduated in 1983 from the Southwestern University of Political Science and Law, one of China's leading law schools. He had previously held the rank of deputy commander of a major military command.)
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