Military representatives attending the ongoing annual legislative and political advisory sessions have expressed their support and confidence in the sweeping crackdown against corruption within the armed forces.

Shortly before the nation's two sessions started, a list of 14 senior military officers was announced on March 3, all of them placed under investigation over corruption charges.

Guo Zhenggang, deputy political commissar of the Zhejiang Military Area Command and the son of Guo Boxiong, former vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission (CMC), was on the list, suspected of "violating laws and committing crimes." No details are officially disclosed yet.

Liu Jian, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), said in a Monday interview with China Youth Daily that this has proved the central government's resolve in furthering the crackdown and managing the army with strict discipline.

He also said "parents cannot escape their responsibility when their kids are not educated well."

Yin Zhuo, director of the Chinese Navy Advisory Committee for Informatization and a member of the CPPCC National Committee, also showed confidence in the crackdown.

"If we do not clear away these [corrupt military officers], it will be impossible for us to fight and win wars. Their behavior has set bad examples and brought the army toward the wrong direction," Yin said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also the chief commander of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), earlier called on Beijing's military leaders to improve troops' combat readiness so that they are able to "win a regional war."

Liu Yuan, political commissar of the PLA General Logistics Department and a deputy to the National People's Congress, said on Thursday that the anti-graft campaign in the military will be carried out resolutely and become a "new normal."

Guo's investigation comes a year after Xu Caihou, former CMC vice-chairman, was put under investigation for bribery in March last year.

Xu has built a corrupt culture within the army that meant the criteria for recruitment and allocation depended on either the amount of bribes they offer or their relations with military leaders, Yang Chunchang, a major general and former aid close to Xu, said in an interview Monday with the Hong Kong-based Phoenix Television.

Yang said it was an open secret that there are different price levels of bribery for promotion to different military ranks, and that this is one of the major destructions brought by Xu. Xu was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party last October after he was accused of seeking profits for others in exchange for money.

"If the money invested for military building is taken by corrupt officials, the military's fighting capability will be hurt," said Jiang Chunliang, a researcher of the PLA Academy Military Science.