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

China’s anti-corruption drive by the numbers

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature anti-corruption campaign, which started 13 years ago, has seen hundreds of top officials fall from grace.

China’s Communist Party

In Focus | Why China’s mineral hubs and border regions face heaviest anti-corruption toll

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Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

In Focus | No immunity: how Xi’s anti-corruption fighters are zeroing in on fresh targets

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Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

Xi’s 13-year corruption campaign just keeps accelerating

China’s anti-graft investigators are targeting more officials, including more retirees, according to a South China Morning Post research project.

Chinese President Xi Jinping. Photo: Reuters

China’s anti-corruption fight: data deep dive

The South China Morning Post has launched a major data project diving into President Xi Jinping’s signature anti-corruption campaign. A series accompanying the data project looks at its main conclusion and the story behind the numbers.

Mainland China

China’s anti-corruption legal framework is about to extend beyond its borders

A draft law aimed at combating cross-border corruption has been submitted for its first reading by the country’s top legislature.

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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 anti-corruption fight in numbers
Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

In Focus | More than ‘a gust of wind’: behind Xi Jinping’s expanding anti-graft campaign

Far from a temporary crackdown, the campaign has proved to be a key tool for enforcing party discipline and driving economic strategy.

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Video | China’s anti-corruption crackdown

An exclusive SCMP data analysis reveals how China’s hunt for corrupt senior officials is intensifying rather than slowing down.

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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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
Central Military Commission

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

New cohort of lieutenant generals has stepped up to lead key PLA bodies, SCMP analysis of state media footage from key meetings reveals.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
China’s Communist Party

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

Beijing’s anti-corruption clean-up of the military reflects a historic commitment to party control, ensuring the armed forces strictly serve party goals.

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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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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.

The defendant was found to have laundered more than HK$64 million, including a bribe his father allegedly sought a decade ago. Photo: Getty Images
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.

Asset id: 2672530491 An aerial shot of the Asean Business District in Nanning, Guangxi. Photo: Shutterstock Images
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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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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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.

A bank teller counts yuan in Haian. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images
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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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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Leading cartographic scientist Zhou Chenghu is being investigated by central and local anti-corruption bodies for “suspected serious violations of duty”, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has confirmed. Photo: Handout
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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