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Liu Zhenli (left) and Zhang Youxia, are former members of China's top military authority. Photos: Handout, EPA
Central Military Commission

PLA chiefs’ downfall eliminated ‘political danger’, military mouthpiece says

Ousting of Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli was a ‘major victory’ in the Chinese military’s war on corruption: PLA Daily.

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Mainland China

Former top PLA generals expelled from Communist Party for factionalism

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China’s Communist Party

Chinese lawyers offer coaching for when corruption busters come knocking

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China’s anti-sanctions law

China’s anti-corruption law is going global. What does it mean for overseas firms?

Beijing’s draft legislation looks like its US precedent but with some far-reaching differences, analysts say.

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Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

China’s corruption investigation procedures

Senior Chinese officials accused of corruption can face months or even years of investigations and reviews before receiving a final court sentence.

Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

Editorial | China’s anti-corruption campaign is here to stay

Hong Kong has a role to play as a new national law seeks to expand the anti-corruption legal framework beyond the country’s borders.

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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 anti-corruption drive by the numbers
China’s Communist Party

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

China’s past CCDI annual plenums stress intensifying efforts to combat corruption where ‘power, funds and resources are concentrated’.

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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

China’s anti-graft push has expanded to those who once felt shielded, from retired cadres and local bosses to the investigators themselves.

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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.

China’s flag flutters outside a building in Beijing, China, June 2, 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE
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.

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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Illustration: Henry Wong

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.

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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

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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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.

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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Xi’s corruption crackdown by the numbers
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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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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Bian Zhigang was appointed deputy head at the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence in February 2024. Photo: VCG via Getty Images
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.

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