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Chinese police have dismantled more than 1,000 gangs and detained thousands of suspects as part of the country’s latest crime-busting campaign. Photo: Handout
China’s Communist Party

Over 8,200 detained as China launches year-long crackdown on organised crime

The campaign targets ‘covert’ crimes that have spread online, from ‘soft violence’ to sexual extortion.

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Central Military Commission

New batch of officers quietly takes helm of PLA after anti-corruption drive

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China’s Communist Party

Why is China’s Communist Party intent on control over the military?

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Banking & finance

China places former deputy of top financial regulator under investigation

Fang Xinghai, former vice-chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission, is latest financial official to be probed by anti-corruption body.

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Fang Xinghai, vice-chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, speaks during a press conference in 2017. Photo: Simon Song
Hong Kong courts

Son of ex-Chinese official jailed for 6 years, 9 months for deception, laundering

Judge says Xiao Rui undermined the effectiveness of cash-for-residency scheme by deceiving Immigration Department into granting him visa.

China property

Chinese city ‘sold’ same plot of land 18 times to inflate fiscal revenue

Central Commission for Discipline Inspection says Nanning used tactic to mask budget strains.

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Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

Video | Xi’s corruption crackdown by the numbers

A data-driven multimedia analysis of the anti-corruption campaign launched by President Xi Jinping, seen as key to the Communist Party’s survival.

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Xi’s corruption crackdown by the numbers
Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

China’s anti-corruption fight in numbers

The anti-corruption campaign has been President Xi Jinping’s signature policy since he took power in 2012. More than a decade on, far from losing steam it is instead speeding up.

China’s military

Chinese President Xi Jinping appoints new military anti-corruption chief

Zhang Shuguang, who was promoted to the rank of full general, will take over as head of the PLA’s top graft-busting body.

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China’s Communist Party

Just how far are China’s local officials going in falsifying performance data?

The cases are the clearest examples yet of the behaviour Beijing is targeting in its campaign on the ‘correct view of political performance’.

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Chinese anti-corruption authorities have highlighted typical cases of misconduct in official duties and performance evaluations. Photo: Reuters
China’s Communist Party

What goes on inside the 10-week ideology camp for China’s top military brass

According to state media, Xi personally decided to launch the exercise, which lasted 10 weeks and involved hundreds of officers.

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The goal of the training camp was to make sure that senior military officials know “which red lines must never be crossed, which bottom lines must never be breached”. Photo: Xinhua
Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

China targets face of international space cooperation in corruption crackdown

Senior defence industry official Bian Zhigang put under investigation for ‘serious violations of discipline and law’.

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Hong Kong courts

Ex-Chinese official’s son held in Hong Kong over HK$64m money laundering case

Xiao Rui, 37, also set to be penalised for using bogus bank records to deceive Immigration Department into granting him right of abode.

Law

Integrity non-negotiable, Hong Kong anti-corruption chief says at Apec seminar

Danny Woo also says corruption harms prosperity at its core and attacks the foundations of society.

(From left) Justice minister Paul Lam, National Commission of Supervision Vice-Chairman Fu Kui and ICAC Commissioner Danny Woo. Photo: Dickson Lee
China’s Communist Party

China’s anti-corruption watchdog targets its former senior official Li Xiaohong

The 73-year-old who retired nine years ago from the CCDI is suspected of ‘serious violations of discipline and law’.

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Li Xiaohong, a former senior disciplinary official in charge of national inspection, is being investigated by China’s anti-corruption authorities. Photo: Handout
Mainland China

Video | China’s top cartographer under corruption probe

Zhou Chenghu, a prominent scientist with an extensive business empire in geographic information and the low-altitude economy, is being investigated by anti-graft authorities.

Science

Top Chinese map-making scientist Zhou Chenghu netted in anti-corruption sweep

Cartographer with business empire in spatial data and low-altitude economy suspected of ‘serious violations of duty’.

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Banking & finance

China appoints top regulatory official as financial clean-up drive continues

Ding Xiangqun takes up key role at the National Financial Regulatory Administration, one month after her predecessor was removed.

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Ding Xiangqun has been appointed as new Party chief of the National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA) after her predecessor Li Yunze was removed from the position. Photo: Handout
Mainland China

China sentences former Shaolin abbot to 24 years for corruption

Disgraced leader should be ‘severely punished’ according to law, court says, calling circumstances of his bribery ‘particularly serious’.

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Central Military Commission

Fate of China’s ex-defence heads shows party won’t allow disloyalty: state media

Editorial from Chinese military’s official newspaper marks the first time that Li Shangfu has been labelled a traitor.

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Defence

2 former Chinese defence ministers handed suspended death sentences

Sentences for Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu are the most severe for senior military officers since anti-corruption campaign began in 2012.

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Former Chinese defence ministers Li Shangfu (left) and Wei Fenghe were sentenced on Thursday after being found guilty of corruption. Photo composite: AP and Reuters
Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

Former CSRC chairman Yi Huiman to face trial for taking bribes, abusing power

Communist Party’s top anti-graft watchdog wraps up investigation into Yi’s activities with long list of allegations.

Yi Huiman, former China Securities Regulatory Commission chairman, will face trial on corruption charges. Photo: Simon Song
Badminton World Federation (BWF)

China’s anti-corruption body probes badminton association chief Zhang Jun

Olympic gold medallist Zhang Jun, who is also vice-president of Nanjing Sport Institute, has been placed ‘under disciplinary review’.

Law

China targets middlemen in renewed crackdown on ‘hidden’ corruption

The top court and prosecutor signal how the criminal law can be aimed at the enablers of graft.

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Central Military Commission

Xi tells senior officers to ‘stay pure’ after Chinese military’s anti-graft drive

Speech live-streamed to PLA’s high-level units calls for resolute political loyalty with no room for self-interest or corruption.

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President Xi Jinping addresses the training session for high-ranking Chinese military officials in Beijing on Wednesday. Photo: Xinhua
Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

China puts Ma Xingrui protege Guo Yonghang under corruption investigation

Fate of ‘right-hand man’ deepens mystery around former Guangdong governor and Xinjiang party chief who has not been seen for months.

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Guo Yonghang is suspected of “serious violations of discipline and law”, according to China’s top anti-corruption watchdog. Photo: VCG via Getty Images
Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

Chinese financial regulator and ex-corruption fighter Zhou Liang under probe

Authorities have zeroed in on the once-elite and opaque financial sector since the 2022 party congress.

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Mainland China

Former Shaolin Temple abbot indicted for bribery and embezzlement

Prosecutors formally charge ‘CEO monk’ Shi Yongxin four months after his arrest following financial and sexual scandals.

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