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Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

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.
Yao Qian’s corruption case featured in a documentary broadcast on state television. Photo: Capco
China’s Communist Party

How Chinese corruption busters are tracking down bribes paid in cryptocurrency

A documentary on state television highlights how a senior central bank official was bribed with a digital currency.

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China’s Communist Party

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

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Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

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

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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.

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Tian Xuebin, a veteran of the State Council, China’s cabinet, has been placed under investigation by the party’s top anti-corruption agency. Photo: Handout
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.

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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.

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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.

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A record 63 high-ranking officials were placed under investigation on suspicion of corruption this year. Photo: Robert Ng
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.

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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.

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’.

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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.

Former China Tower chairman Tong Jilu is under investigation. Photo: Jonathan Wong
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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The crackdown’s targets include bribery and the misue of research fund. Photo: Shutterstock
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.

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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.

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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.

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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’.

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