He and the ＂suicide general＂ both criticized Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou and both disappeared into the media at the same time.
CCTV News:On the afternoon of November 30, 2017, the Ministry of National Defense held a regular press conference. A reporter mentioned that Zhang Yang committed suicide during the investigation. Was the former Chief of Staff Fang Fenghui also investigated on the same day?
Now the answer is finally revealed-
On January 9, 2018, Xinhua News Agency reported that with the approval of the CPC Central Committee, Fang Fenghui, a member of People’s Republic of China (PRC) the Central Military Commission (CMC) (former member of CPC Central Military Commission and former chief of staff of the Joint Staff of the Central Military Commission), was transferred to the military procuratorate for handling according to law on suspicion of bribery.
He is an "old partner" with "suicide general" Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang and Fang Fenghui were old partners of the Guangzhou Military Region. According to their resumes, both of them joined the army in 1968. Fang Fenghui was the chief of staff of the Guangzhou Military Region from 2003 to 2007, and Zhang Yang was the director of the Political Department of the Guangzhou Military Region from 2004 to 2007. They worked in the same team for three years. Then, they were in charge of the General Staff Department and the General Political Department.
When he was promoted to the rank of general on July 19, 2010, Fang Fenghui was the commander of the Beijing Military Region and Zhang Yang was the political commissar of the Guangzhou Military Region.
In 2012, the Fourth Headquarters of the People’s Liberation Army made major personnel changes, with Fang Fenghui as the Chief of Staff of the People’s Liberation Army of China and Zhang Yang as the Director of the General Political Department of the People’s Liberation Army of China. It was also this personnel adjustment, and Zhang and Fang took charge of the General Political Department and the General Staff and became partners again.
Looking at the website of the Ministry of National Defense, it is not difficult to find that Zhang Yang last appeared in front of the media on August 7, 2017. According to Xinhua News Agency, on the same day, the central delegation flew to Hohhot to attend the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. As a member of the Central Military Commission and director of the Political Work Department of the Military Commission, Zhang Yang arrived at the same time as other members of the Central Delegation.
According to official sources, on August 28th, 2017, the Central Military Commission organized a talk with him to investigate and verify his clues about the cases involving Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou.
Fang Fenghui’s last publicly reported activity was a meeting with Suraphol, Supreme Commander of the Thai Armed Forces, in Bayi Building on the afternoon of August 21, 2017.
On August 26, 2017, Li Zuocheng, Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff of the Central Military Commission, met with Pakistani Army Chief of Staff Bajwa in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The above information shows that Fang Fenghui is no longer the chief of staff of the Joint Staff of the Central Military Commission.
On September 6, 2017, the list of representatives of the People’s Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force attending the 19 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was announced. Fang Fenghui and Zhang Yang were not on the list.
On October 24, 2017, the 19th National Congress elected a new Central Committee, and neither Fang Fenghui nor Zhang Yang was elected.
On the morning of November 23, 2017, Zhang Yang hanged himself at home. After investigation and verification, Zhang Yang seriously violated the law and discipline, and was suspected of bribery and huge amounts of property with unknown sources. Junbao commented that Zhang Yang committed suicide for fear of sin! This once powerful general ended his life in such a shameful way.
Typical "two-faced"
On the second day after the news of Fang Fenghui’s fall from the horse was announced, the military newspaper commented that dealing with Fang Fenghui’s suspected bribery and bribery crimes according to law is an important part of thoroughly eliminating the pernicious influence of Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou, and an important measure to further promote the building of a clean and honest party style and the fight against corruption.
Fang Fenghui and Guo Boxiong are both from Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, and when he was the commander of the 21st Army of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Guo Boxiong was the commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, and they were in a superior-subordinate relationship. In 2003, Fang Fenghui and Guo Boxiong, then vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, came to all the virtues Village, baishan town, Changping District, Beijing to participate in voluntary tree planting.
According to media reports, Zhang Yang and Xu Caihou also have many origins. On the evening of October 20, 2012, Xu Caihou, then vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, watched the drama "Declaration of Life" which was jointly created by Nanjing Institute of Political Science of the People’s Liberation Army and the General Political Drama Troupe, reflecting the advanced deeds of Yan Gaohong, a "model theoretical worker". After the performance, Zhang Yang, a former political commissar of the Guangzhou Military Region, followed Xu Caihou and shook hands with the performers. He also attended the subsequent discussion.
Five days later, on October 25, 2012, the database of leaders of the Military Commission Headquarters on the website of the Ministry of National Defense was updated, and Zhang Yang was confirmed as the director of the General Political Department.
However, after the fall of Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou, Zhang Yang and Fang Fenghui, of course, also took a clear stand and criticized Guo Xu’s pernicious problem with a large space.
For example, at the National People’s Congress in 2016, Fang Fenghui participated in the deliberation of the delegation of the People’s Liberation Army in groups. He stressed that the pernicious influence of the cases of Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou should be thoroughly eliminated and the responsibility system for the chairman of the Military Commission should be implemented in a concrete, comprehensive and whole process.
Since the Gutian Conference in 2014, Zhang Yang has made a statement to eliminate Guo Xu’s pernicious influence more than once. On August 26, 2016, the meeting of the leading group for the whole army to implement the spirit of Gutian Political Work Association was held. Zhang Yang attended and spoke as the leader of the leading group for the whole army to implement the spirit of Gutian Political Work Association. At the meeting, Zhang Yang spent a lot of time talking about the poisonous problems of Guo and Xu. Zhang Yang said that it is necessary to work hard to eliminate the influence of pernicious influence. Focusing on leading cadres, we will further do a good job in exposing and criticizing, so as to achieve emotional hatred and political break, and effectively draw a clear line with Guo Xu’s circle, conduct, routines and style.
Now both of them are eroded by Guo Xu’s pernicious influence, and one is dead and one is imprisoned. How to evaluate them?
In this regard, the military newspaper said that as a senior cadre of the Party and the army, Fang Fenghui should have set an example and taken the lead in practicing the Party’s purpose, but he wavered in his ideals and beliefs, abandoned the Party’s purpose, deteriorated politically and became greedy economically, completely deviated from the principle of party spirit, failed to live up to the trust of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission and the expectations of the people, and seriously tarnished the image of the Party, the army and leading cadres.
Similar comments also appeared on Zhang Yang: as a senior cadre of the Party and the army, Zhang Yang lost his ideals and beliefs, lost the principle of party spirit, lost his respect for law and discipline, and lost his moral bottom line. He had two performances on stage and two faces behind his predecessors, shouting loyalty on his lips and engaging in corruption behind his back. He was a typical "two-faced man". Its serious violation of discipline and law has caused serious harm to the cause of the party and the army, tarnishing the image of the party, the army, the political work and the leading cadres.