China has promoted General Zhang Shengmin, the key enforcer of Xi Jinping's military anti-corruption purge, to the Politburo ahead of the 2027 party congress. China has elevated General Zhang Shengmin, the military official at the centre of President Xi Jinping’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign in the armed forces, to the Communist Party’s Politburo, placing one of the country’s most powerful military enforcers in its top political leadership.