Two senior Communist Party officials absent at top Chinese political event
Two senior Communist Party officials absent at top Chinese political event
ReutersWed, March 4, 2026 at 7:19 AM UTC
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Delegates and party members applaud as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives for the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China March 4, 2026. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
BEIJING, March 4 (Reuters) - Two senior Chinese officials were absent on Wednesday from the ranks of China's highest tier of power at the opening of the country's two largest political events of the year, with top Communist Party cadres ensnared in a wave of purges.
Zhang Youxia, China's highest-ranking general, was not among the party's 23-member politburo at the opening of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), according to a Reuters witness. Neither was Ma Xingrui, formerly the party's top official in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang.
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Zhang, also a vice chairman on the Central Military Commission (CMC), was put under investigation in January. Ma has not been in the public eye since late October.
(Reporting by Ryan Woo, Xiuhao Chen and Ethan Wang; Editing by Tom Hogue)
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