President Xi Jinping has called on the military to learn lessons from the corruption case involving Xu Caihou, former vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission.

Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, emphasized the need to run the armed forces in accordance with the law when he met with senior officers of the Nanjing Military Area Command during an inspection tour in Jiangsu province on Sunday.

He said military officials at all levels, especially senior ones, should take a warning from the cases of Xu and Lieutenant General Gu Junshan, former deputy chief of the People's Liberation Army's general logistics department.