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Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

The latest news and top stories on the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the Chinese Communist Party’s highest internal disciplinary and supervisory body, headquartered in Beijing. Its primary mission involves enforcing party regulations, combating corruption and safeguarding the Party’s leadership. As China’s de facto top anti-corruption agency, the CCDI focuses on investigating malfeasance among officials and promoting clean governance. It has notably handled hundreds of thousands of cases, including those involving high-ranking officials, contributing significantly to the Party’s anti-graft efforts.

China’s anti-corruption watchdog has ordered the confiscation of Gao Yichen’s illicit gains, and his case has been transferred to prosecutors. Photo: Sohu

China’s Communist Party

China expels former intelligence official Gao Yichen from party for corruption

Discipline watchdog condemns ‘retired but not resting’ vice-minister for taking bribes and ‘wantonly’ amassing wealth after leaving office.

20 Jan 2026 - 4:44PM

China’s Communist Party

How Chinese corruption busters are tracking down bribes paid in cryptocurrency

15 Jan 2026 - 8:34PMvideocam

China’s Communist Party

China’s anti-corruption body reveals how ex-banker fell in bribery scandal

14 Jan 2026 - 7:08PMvideocam

Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

China’s fight against corruption is a battle we can’t afford to lose, Xi says

President tells China’s top anti-graft watchdog that corruption is a ‘stumbling block’ that is hampering the country’s development.

12 Jan 2026 - 9:55PMvideocam

Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses the top anti-corruption watchdog. Photo: CCTV

China’s Communist Party

China’s continued hunt for corrupt ‘tigers’ snares State Council veteran

Tian Xuebin, who retired as vice-minister of water resources in 2023, served under several premiers.

5 Jan 2026 - 8:18PMvideocam

China’s Communist Party

China steps up anti-corruption fight as crackdown snares 65 ‘tigers’ in 2025

Communist Party mouthpiece calls for tighter discipline in coming years, echoing Xi Jinping’s New Year’s address.

3 Jan 2026 - 8:42PMvideocam

China’s Communist Party

We must not give corrupt officials any hiding place, Xi tells cadres

Chinese leader told key meeting in October that the fight against graft remained ‘grim and complex’, according to excerpts from speech.

1 Jan 2026 - 12:59PMvideocam

President Xi Jinping has again emphasised that corruption is “the greatest threat” facing the Communist Party. Photo: Xinhua

Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

China vows to keep up the fight after record ‘tigers’ caught in corruption net

Politburo agrees to push forward campaign and calls for graft-busters to provide ‘guarantee’ for nation’s economic and social development.

26 Dec 2025 - 12:00PMvideocam

China’s Communist Party

Former Chinese senior banker executed for taking US$155 million in bribes

Bai is the second senior figure from Huarong to be put to death for corruption following the execution of Lai Xiaomin in 2021.

9 Dec 2025 - 9:48PM

Corruption in China

Former chief of China’s food and drug watchdog ousted from Communist Party

Bi Jingquan, who received an international award for promoting innovation, has also been removed from public office over corruption charges.

9 Dec 2025 - 4:00PM

China’s top anti-corruption body said Bi Jingquan’s case would be transferred to prosecutors for review. Photo: Handout

China’s Communist Party

Chen Weijun joins list of senior Xinjiang officials investigated for corruption

Party journal Qiushi republishes speech by President Xi Jinping in which he urged greater effort in the push for ‘self-revolution’.

1 Dec 2025 - 9:09PMvideocam

Chen Weijun, once regarded as a promising political star, is under investigation for suspected “serious violations of discipline and law”. Photo: Handout

China economy

Former China Tower chief Tong Jilu under corruption investigation

Tong, once a leading figure in 5G development, is suspected of violating party discipline and law.

21 Sep 2025 - 7:30PM

Corruption in China

China’s financial anti-graft drive not a quick fix but good in long run: analyst

Challenge lies in how the campaign can create real deterrence, rather than drive the corruption ‘deeper underground’, observer says.

6 Sep 2025 - 10:00PMvideocam

Corruption in China

Chairwoman of China’s Inner Mongolia Wang Lixia under scrutiny for corruption

Wang, also regional deputy party chief, is an ethnic Mongol and the fourth senior autonomous region official to be disciplined this year.

22 Aug 2025 - 8:30PMvideocam

Wang Lixia is suspected of committing “serious violations of discipline and laws”. Photo: QQ.com

China debt

China slams grass-roots mismanagement, shames failed ‘longevity city’ in warning

Disciplinary authorities are on the hunt for wastefulness, putting ‘blind decisions’ in their crosshairs as local-level cadres struggle to stimulate economies.

19 Jul 2025 - 11:00AMvideocam

Following an investigation, Yaohan Longevity City (pictured) in the Gongcheng Yao autonomous county of Guilin was condemned as a “severe waste of resources”. Photo: Handout

China’s Communist Party

China’s corruption busters target science sector in research funds crackdown

Li Xi, head of the top anti-graft body, said the probe was intended to help the country’s hi-tech development, a key policy priority.

17 Jul 2025 - 2:00PMvideocam

China’s Communist Party

Wuhan mayor who defended city’s slow response to Covid faces corruption probe

Zhou Xianwang later admitted that the city had not issued adequate warnings during the early stages of the pandemic.

8 Jul 2025 - 4:40PMvideocam

China’s Communist Party

China’s ethnic affairs overseer to take Communist Party helm in Xinjiang

Chen Xiaojiang takes over from Ma Xingrui and could be in the running for a Politburo seat.

1 Jul 2025 - 8:58PM

Aerial view of populus euphratica forest at Huludao, or Gourd Island in autumn on October 26, 2024 in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. Photo: Xinhua

Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

China corruption investigation tracker: 2025

In the first half of 2025, corruption investigations were launched against 32 senior officials, including five at the ministerial level.

1 Jul 2025 - 5:02PM

China’s Communist Party

China’s Xi tells party ‘power is granted by people’ amid corruption crackdown

Xi urges party members and cadres to remember that ‘all power is granted by the people’.

1 Jul 2025 - 5:01PMvideocam

Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on enforcing party discipline while presiding over a group study session of the Politburo on Monday. Photo: Kyodo

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