China’s Xi urges deeper anti-graft fight in military, Xinhua reports

BEIJING, July 31 (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping ?on Friday urged efforts ?to deepen the fight against corruption in ?the military ?to advance the modernisation of ?the national ?defence, state news agency ?Xinhua news agency reported. “Barrel of the gun must ?always obey the ?party,” Xi said at a ?Politburo ?group study session. Sign up here. He also called for the establishment of ?an ?intelligent ?military system, including greater use ?of unmanned intelligent ?technologies ?and deeper use of cyber-information systems, ?Xinhua ?said. Reporting by ?Ethan Wang and Ryan Woo; ?Editing by Christian Schmollinger