PLA establishes first discipline inspection department

Approved by Hu Jintao, chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the People's Republic of China, and the CMC, the first Discipline Inspection and Supervision Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) was established at the PLA Xi'an Institute of Politics. The inaugural meeting and opening ceremony were held at the PLA Xi'an Institute of Politics on September 1, 2012.

The PLA Xi'an Institute of Politics set up discipline inspection and supervision subject and teaching organization in 1989, and has trained or rotationally trained more than 6,000 discipline inspection and supervision officers in the past 20-odd years.

The newly-established Military Discipline Inspection and Supervision Department will cultivate and train high-quality discipline inspection and supervision talents for PLA troop units and carry out targeted research on major theoretical and practical issues in anti-corruption construction in a bid to improve the scientific level of anti-corruption construction in the military.

Tong Shiping, deputy director of the General Political Department (GPD) of the PLA and secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission under the CMC, attended and addressed the ceremony.