China has reshuffled some of its senior military officials, kicking off a leadership transition that will be finalised at the Communist party congress early next month.
The appointment of a new air force chief and a new top political officer reveals how the purge of Bo Xilai, the former party secretary of Chongqing whose grab for power threw the party into its worst crisis in decades, has hit his allies in the armed forces.
General Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of the general staff, has been named commander of the air force, and Gen Zhang Yang has been promoted from political commissar of the Guangzhou military region to director of the general political department.
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