Two senior Communist Party officials absent at top Chinese political event

Due alti funzionari del Partito Comunista assenti al massimo evento politico cinese

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 (Reuters)

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.

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)

BEIJING, 4 marzo (Reuters) - Due alti funzionari cinesi erano assenti mercoledì dai ranghi del più alto livello di potere del Paese all’apertura dei due più importanti eventi politici dell’anno, con i massimi quadri del Partito Comunista coinvolti in un’ondata di epurazioni.

Zhang Youxia, il generale più alto in grado della Cina, non era tra i 23 membri del politburo del partito all’apertura della Conferenza consultiva politica del popolo cinese (CPPCC), secondo un testimone della Reuters. Non c’era nemmeno Ma Xingrui, ex alto funzionario del partito nella regione occidentale cinese dello Xinjiang.

Zhang, anche vicepresidente della Commissione militare centrale (CMC), è stato messo sotto inchiesta a gennaio. Ma non è più in vista dalla fine di ottobre.

(Reporter: Ryan Woo, Xiuhao Chen e Ethan Wang; Editing: Tom Hogue)

(Reporter: Ryan Woo, Xiuhao Chen e Ethan Wang; Editing: Tom Hogue).

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Two senior Communist Party officials absent at top Chinese political event

Due alti funzionari del Partito Comunista assenti al massimo evento politico cinese

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