China’s top leader Xi Jinping did not attend the National Defense and Military Reform Seminar held in Beijing on  Wednesday.
Though absent, Xi, who is General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chairman of China, and Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission (CMC), gave his instructions to the attendees and demanded that the Chinese army “focus on combat readiness,” according to China’s major propaganda mouthpiece Xinhua News Agency. (Report)
Also absent from the seminar was Wei Fenghe, the minister of National Defense.
Li Qiaoming, former commander of China’s Northern Theater Command, was at the seminar. Li was replaced by Wang Qiang from the Air Force who Xi promoted to general on Sept. 8. (Report)…