Wanted: university graduates aged between 20 and 35 years, with no criminal record and a height of at least 170cm (5.57ft) for men and 158cm for women. Military veterans or police college students preferred. The very public ads have been cropping up online, posted by recruiters across China in search of people for a very … Read more
China’s top anti-graft agency has vowed to double down on its efforts to battle corruption as it mapped out its focus in areas such as finance, state-owned enterprises, and energy and renewed its pledge to go after bribe payers in the new year. A communique released on Wednesday by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection … Read more
China’s corruption inspectors used big data to identify dozens of companies controlled by the wife of a disgraced top minister and used to launder bribes, the latest state documentary on the 12-year clean-up drive has revealed. According to the latest episode of an anti-corruption series aired by national broadcaster CCTV on Tuesday, 34 companies controlled … Read more
Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned of “catastrophic” risks for the country if there is any let-up in the decade-old anti-corruption crackdown, adding that the fight remained “grave and complex”. Addressing a gathering of the elite of China’s top anti-corruption agency on Monday, Xi said China’s anti-corruption efforts had yielded clear results but officials should … Read more
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s war on corruption has ensnared a record number of high-ranking officials this year, with 56 senior cadres at vice-ministerial level or above being investigated, a tally by the South China Morning Post has found. That marks a jump of nearly 25 per cent from 2023, when 45 high-ranking officials were subject … Read more
He made the comments in a speech in January, but some of the contents were only made public on Sunday in an article published in the Central Committee’s theoretical magazine Qiushi. Xi was speaking at January’s plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the top anti-corruption body, where he said all party … Read more
Tens of thousands of anti-corruption inspectors have fanned out across China to carry out the first national check on the party loyalty of cadres in the country’s half a million villages. The announcement of the campaign came a month after the Communist Party’s graft watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), said 77,000 village … Read more
Several Chinese cities are awarding a “snail award” to sluggish cadres among their measures to eliminate a “lying flat” mentality among workers, after repeated calls for greater diligence by President Xi Jinping and Chinese disciplinary authorities. In the eastern city of Taizhou in Jiangsu province, a snail award has been given to workers who do … Read more
The Communist Party chief of Shanghai’s Pudong New Area, Zhu Zhisong, is under investigation on suspicion of corruption. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said on Wednesday that Zhu, 55, an aerospace veteran, was suspected of committing “serious violations of discipline and law” – a euphemism for corruption. Zhu is the first party chief … Read more
However, more than a decade later, the party has come to realise many have exploited this to make false accusations against officials. At a major party conclave in July, Xi and other top officials pledged to “take stronger steps to handle false accusations”. Observers say unfounded claims about corruption waste resources, undermine careers, dampen morale … Read more
