On December 17, 2014 (October 26, 2014 in the lunar calendar), Ma Xiangdong, the former director of the Political Department of the Nanjing Institute of Political Science of the People's Liberation Army, was investigated. There are less than half a month left in 2014, but the army's anti-corruption and anti-corruption campaign does not seem to be coming to an end. After the corruption cases of Zhou Yongkang, Xu Caihou, Ye Wanyong, Gu Junshan, and Gao Xiaoyan were investigated, the army's anti-corruption campaign fell again. Deputy Dean Major General Dai Weimin was investigated for less than 20 days, and Ma Xiangdong, director of the Political Department of the Nanjing Institute of Political Science of the People's Liberation Army, was recently taken away. On the morning of December 17, 2014, Ma Xiangdong, the director of the Political Department of Nanjing Institute of Political Science, who had just taken office, was taken away by the relevant departments of the army in early December; it was reported that Ma Xiangdong had sold the indicators of military cadets at a high price during his tenure as director of the Cadre Training Bureau of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army. Ma Xiangdong (data map) The deputy dean was taken away less than 20 days after the investigation, which inevitably makes people think, but sources familiar with the matter said that this incident should not be related to the Dai Weimin case, but to the corruption of recruitment in military academies. Nanjing Institute of Political Science of the People's Liberation Army is an intermediate-level educational institution under the leadership of the General Political Department, and the establishment level is the regular military level. The college recruits students to the whole army across the country, and is mainly responsible for training political command cadres, political organ cadres, and political work professionals for the whole army. The college has recently attracted much attention from the outside world due to rumors that the deputy dean, Major General Dai Weimin, has been sacked. Ma Xiangdong worked in the General Political Department for a long time in his early years, and served as the director of the General Political Cadre Training Bureau and other positions. Roughly after the August 1st Army Day this year, he was transferred to the deputy military-level position of director of the Political Department of Nanjing Political Science University. The news of this personnel change was first disclosed by the Guangming Daily on October 22 this year. This is Ma Xiangdong's first appearance in the media as the director of the Political Department of Nanjing Political Science University, and it is also Dai Weimin's last public appearance in the coverage. Since then, the names of Dai Weimin and Ma Xiangdong have never appeared in state media reports. It is said that the pictures and names of Vice President David and Political Department Director Ma Xiangdong have been taken down in the propaganda column on the campus of Nanjing University of Political Science. On October 31, 2014, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State and Chairperson of the Central Military Commission, made a special trip to Gutian Town, Shanghang County, Fujian Province, to attend the political work conference of the whole army being held here. In his speech, he stressed that we must face up to the outstanding problems in the construction of the army, especially in the ideological and political construction. In particular, we must attach great importance to and take seriously the case of Xu Caihou, deeply reflect on the lessons and thoroughly eliminate the impact. Xi Jinping has made it clear that to strengthen and improve the political work of our army under the new situation, we must focus on the following five aspects: focusing on the work of forging the soul of the army, focusing on the management of high and middle-level cadres, focusing on the construction of work style and the fight against corruption, focusing on the cultivation of fighting spirit, and focusing on the innovative development of political work.