On March 2, 2015 (January 12, 2015 in the lunar calendar), Duan Tianjie, deputy director of the Political Department of the National Defense University, was dismissed. Duan Tianjie According to China Military Network, on March 2, 2015, the authoritative military department announced the recent investigation and handling of 14 major corruption cases involving cadres at or above the military level. Among them, Duan Tianjie, deputy director of the Political Department of the National Defense University, was suspected of serious violations of discipline. The Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Military Commission opened an investigation in November 2014, and was transferred to the military judicial organs for handling in accordance with the law in January 2015. According to public information, Duan Tianjie was from Loufan, Shanxi Province. He joined the army in 1976 and served in a grassroots unit in Inner Mongolia. Duan Tianjie has worked in the military political work and publicity system for a long time, and was the director of the "Comrades Newspaper" of the Political Department of the Beijing Military Region. In June 2012, he was promoted to political commissar of the Basic Department of the National Defense University, promoted to deputy military major general, and later transferred to deputy director of the Political Department of the National Defense University. Duan Tianjie loves writing very much and once encouraged himself as "a literati among soldiers, a soldier among literati." After joining the army, he published literary and artistic works many times. He was a columnist in the Long March Literature and Art Supplement of the People's Liberation Army Daily. His works have won many awards such as the First Long March Literature and Art Award. The National Defense University is the highest military academy in China. It was established in December 1985. It is the only high-level contract command academy in the China military. It is directly under the leadership of the Central Military Commission. It is responsible for cultivating command cadres at the army, navy and air force levels, local and provincial leading cadres, and responsible cadres at the department level and above the central state agencies. It also engages in research on strategic and national defense modernization issues, and provides consultation on decision-making of the State Council, the Central Military Commission and various headquarters. Including the National Defense University where Duan Tianjie is located, military academies have become a key area of anti-corruption in the military. Among the 14 generals at or above the military level announced this time, in addition to Duan Tianjie, there is also Huang Xing, former director of the Scientific Research Guidance Department of the Academy of Military Sciences. In the 2014 investigation and handling of major corruption cases involving cadres at or above the military level announced by China Military Network on January 15 this year, there were four leaders of military academies. They were Wang Minggui, political commissar of the former Air Defense Command Academy, and Dai Weimin, former vice president of the Nanjing Political College, Ma Xiangdong, former director of the Political Department of the Nanjing Political College, and Gao Xiaoyan, former deputy political commissar of the People's Liberation Army Information Engineering University.