CHINA-INTERNAL: PLA/CORRUPTION
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China's official news agency Xinhua reported on July 27, that PLA officers have been instructed to return non-essential public housing after an investigation found "irregularities". Xinhua said abnormalities were revealed in an inspection into "housing and infrastructure construction" that began last year as part of a wider crackdown into corruption in the Chinese military, and that the new measures were endorsed by the Chairman of China's Central Military Commission, President Xi Jinping. Citing a military circular that appeared in the People's Liberation Army Daily newspaper on July 25, Xinhua said officers and their families will only be allowed to "occupy one public housing unit in a single city, and its size must be appropriate for the official's rank." It added that "Officials were ordered to give back extra properties if they have more than one military-owned apartment or their combined size exceeds the allowance for their ranks." Families of deceased officers were also being told to leave military properties if they already owned housing, Xinhua added.
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