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China’s corruption watchdog pledges focus on finance, medical graft, disloyalty

  • Infrastructure added to list of priorities for 2024, along with renewed focus on loyalty to Xi within the ruling party’s membership
  • The CCDI communique issued after its work meeting also reveals an addition to Xi’s doctrine that calls for ‘self-revolution’

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The bidding process for China’s mega infrastructure projects has been added to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection’s targets for the coming year. Photo: Xinhua
William Zheng
China’s corruption busters have pledged to push forward “relentlessly” with President Xi Jinping’s clean-up campaign, with a focus in 2024 on the finance sector, state-owned enterprises, energy, tobacco, healthcare and infrastructure.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) made the proclamation in its latest communique, adopted at the party watchdog’s third plenary session, which concluded in Beijing on Wednesday.

The CCDI has been applying scrutiny to the finance, SOE, tobacco and healthcare sectors in recent years, but has added the bidding process for mega infrastructure projects to its 2024 list.

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Some of last year’s targets – including education, sports, grain reserves and statistics – were dropped at the meeting, held annually to lay out the CCDI’s work programme for the year ahead.

“[We must] keep up the pressure, continue to keep a close eye on key problems, key areas, key people, new forms of corruption – especially the hidden ones,” the communique said, according to state-run news agency Xinhua.

According to the communique, the CCDI’s top priority will be to “severely punish … corruption involving government and business collusion” and “deepen the rectification” of the listed sectors.

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