2026-11-06
He Xiong, former Deputy Secretary-General of the Henan Provincial Government, was stripped of his status as a deputy to the National People's Congress on the spot and transferred to judicial authorities.
2026-11-06
On November 6, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Yu Yanhong, former Party Secretary and Director of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law. She has turned herself in and is currently under investigation. Her predecessor, Yu Wenming, was sentenced to 15 years in prison this August for accepting bribes totaling over 63.44 million yuan.
2026-11-06
A netizen submission states that Taiyuan University of Technology organized faculty and students to participate in the voting for NPC deputies.
2026-11-05
According to a report by The Beijing News on November 5, Lu Dengdi, a cadre in Fanjiazhuang Township, Quyang County, Hebei Province, stabbed a villager who was trying to mediate a dispute and then went into hiding for about 15 years. During this period, he illegally received over 1.4 million yuan in wages and was promoted to a second-level chief staff member in 2019.
2026-11-04
On November 4, multiple locations in Qitaihe, Heilongjiang, burned straw simultaneously, causing large amounts of smoke to drift into residents' homes. The contributor claimed the burning was organized by the local government. Several students from Qitaihe No. 9 Middle School and No. 9 Primary School were taken to the hospital by ambulances; the cause has not been verified. On the same day, the local government issued a notice stating that it was orderly promoting the burning of straw at forest edges.
Location: Qitaihe, Heilongjiang ·
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2026-11-02
On November 2, the Shanghai University of Engineering Science issued a notice stating that to facilitate the district-level People's Congress representative election on November 16, classes at the Songjiang and Changning campuses will be suspended that morning. Teachers and students are to be organized to participate in the election, and it is required that affected courses make up for the missed progress, with no reduction in syllabus content allowed.
2026-10-30
On October 30, the Associated Press cited analyses from multiple scholars, stating that stricter disciplinary constraints may make officials more cautious and unwilling to take initiative, or even lead them to demonstrate obedience through meetings and training without taking any actual action.
2026-10-29
After two years of anti-corruption protests, Serbian students launched a list of non-partisan social figures to participate in the general election, winning over half the votes and defeating President Vucic's party.
2026-10-21
Numerous officials in Changchun have begun facing investigations over suspected corruption, including an official named Zuguo.
2026-10-25
The Haibowan Branch and Wuda Branch of the Wuhai Public Security Bureau in Inner Mongolia carried out “distant-water fishing” against a Beijing entrepreneur — recovering assets before filing a case — involving 9.9 million yuan. The person involved has奔波 six years and won lawsuits repeatedly, yet the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau has kept the money and still has not returned it.
2026-10-24
On October 24, a netizen from Jiangsu posted to expose that when promoting flu vaccination locally, assessment targets were issued to grassroots villages, requiring each village to mobilize at least 30 people for vaccination. Those mobilizing fewer than 8 people with a vaccination rate below the average would be fined 800 yuan, and fewer than 15 people would result in a 500 yuan fine; the top three would receive cash rewards. Grassroots workers said they were disheartened.
2026-10-24
On October 24, a Hunan netizen captured grassroots officials and volunteers wearing red vests and using shovels to fill potholes on a village road with asphalt. Red flags and personnel taking photos and recording video were present at the scene, with a caption thanking the Communist Party, sparking mockery among netizens.
2026-10-22
On the day the news of Xia Linmao's investigation was announced, Beijing Party Secretary Yin Li presided over a meeting of the Municipal Party Standing Committee, expressing support for the decision of the CCP Central Committee and demanding the resolute elimination of "two-faced people."
2026-10-20
According to the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, Wang Wenling, former member of the Party leadership group and deputy chairperson of the National Council for Social Security Fund, has been expelled from the Party and removed from public office for serious violations of discipline and law. Wang Wenling is accused of losing his ideals and beliefs, abandoning his original aspiration and mission, being disloyal and dishonest to the Party, obstructing organizational reviews, as well as improperly accepting gifts and cash gifts, using his position to seek benefits for others in project contracting, job promotions and other matters, and illegally accepting huge amounts of property.
2026-10-18
According to X user @__Inty__, when responding to questions about whether Trump's business interests influence presidential decisions and whether there is corruption in the White House, US Vice President JD Vance stated clearly that he has never seen any evidence of corruption by Trump or by this administration, rejecting the related allegations.
2026-10-17
On October 17, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission published a commentary stating that regardless of rank, contribution, or retirement status, anyone who engages in corruption has no way out and no such thing as a 'safe landing.'
2026-10-16
Listed company ST Hengxin announced that its former chairman Meng Nan has been subjected to criminal coercive measures by the police and judicial organs.
2026-10-15
On October 15, the Dalian Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced that Wang Shaocheng, former secretary of the leading Party members group and director of the Municipal Transportation Bureau, had been expelled from the Party, stating that he privately kept and read materials involving serious political problems and was also suspected of accepting bribes; the specific content of the materials was not disclosed.
2026-10-14
Wu Hao, former secretary-general of the National Development and Reform Commission, has been expelled from the Party and removed from office; the notice states that he seriously interfered with the core powers of investment approval, listing review, and enterprise qualification.
2026-10-13
The website of the CCDI and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Huang Qifan, former deputy secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and mayor, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is undergoing review and investigation.
2026-10-13
The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission issued a notice on the evening of October 13, announcing that Huang Qifan, former deputy secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and former mayor of the Chongqing Municipal Government, is undergoing review and investigation.
2026-10-13
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission officially announced that Huang Qifan, the 74-year-old former mayor of Chongqing, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is under investigation.
2026-10-13
Former Chongqing Mayor Huang Qifan was detained at Shenzhen Airport, and it was announced on October 13 that he is under investigation.
2026-10-13
Huang Qifan, who served as mayor of Chongqing and was known as an economic adviser, was officially announced on October 13 to be under investigation and taken down, drawing outside attention to the Chinese Communist Party's continued purge of old factions at the top.
2026-10-13
Huang Qifan, a former member of the CCP Politburo and former mayor of Chongqing, was announced to be under investigation on the eve of the Fifth Plenum, sparking outside speculation about his authority to interpret the economic line and warnings to talk less about the economy.
2026-10-13
On October 13, Xinhua News Agency announced that Huang Qifan, former deputy secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and former mayor, is undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission on suspicion of serious violations of discipline and law.
2026-10-13
On October 13, the Fengbang Sub-center of the Jiangqiao Town Community Health Service Center issued a notice acknowledging that the height of its service counter was inappropriate, causing inconvenience to the public, and offering its sincere apologies. It stated that renovation was launched on the evening of October 12 and would be completed within two days, along with a comprehensive inspection of all internal service facilities.
2026-10-12
The Guangdong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced that Wang Shourui, former standing committee member of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and former secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone, is suspected of serious disciplinary and legal violations. He voluntarily reported his problems to the organization and is undergoing review and investigation.
2026-10-10
Zhou Xianwang, former mayor of Wuhan, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the crime of bribery in a first-instance trial in Shangqiu, Henan, sparking speculation outside China about his involvement in the early situation of the 2020 epidemic.
2026-10-10
The Intermediate People's Court of Shangqiu City, Henan Province, sentenced Zhou Xianwang of Hubei to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes, finding that the total amount of bribes accepted amounted to more than 60.5 million yuan.
2026-10-10
On October 10, the Shangqiu City Intermediate People's Court in Henan Province publicly pronounced its first-instance verdict in the bribery case of Zhou Xianwang, former vice chairman of the CPPCC Hubei Provincial Committee, sentencing him to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes, along with a fine of 5 million yuan, with his illegal gains to be turned over to the state treasury. Zhou Xianwang once served as mayor of Wuhan and was heavily criticized in the early stage of the epidemic for concealing the outbreak and punishing whistleblowing doctors.
2026-10-09
The Supreme People's Procuratorate announced on October 9 that the case against Chen Weijun has been brought to public prosecution in Chuzhou, Anhui.
2026-10-09
On October 9, a netizen posted a video claiming he was stopped by a security guard while lying down to rest at Jing'an Park in Shanghai, asking in return, "Did my lying here affect the city's appearance?" and complaining about formalism. Shanghai's 2018 version of the "Park Civilized Visiting Rules" lists "do not lie down at will" among the park order provisions.
2026-10-08
Zhang Shuofu, formerly Beijing's Discipline Inspection Commission Secretary, was announced under investigation on October 8. He had once been Cai Qi's key assistant in Beijing for carrying out arrests.
2026-10-08
Wang Qishan's old subordinate Xu Chuanzhi was sentenced to 12 years at first instance; the verdict mentioned that he voluntarily confessed most of the criminal facts unknown to the case-handling authorities.
2026-10-06
On October 6, patriotic influencer Luke Wen posted on Weibo, praising the Chinese Communist Party's achievements over the past 20 years in anti-corruption, strengthening the military, and poverty alleviation, while describing China between 1992 and 2012 as rife with corruption, chaotic in public security, and a place where everyone feared for their own safety.
2026-10-05
On October 5, a villager in Hebei posted that after discovering a fire, they asked in the villagers' WeChat group “Has anyone called 119?” and was immediately removed from the group by an administrator. In the comments section, some netizens shared experiences of being scolded by village cadres after calling the police, and being confronted at their homes after reporting the village committee for burning garbage.
2026-10-05
On October 5, a netizen from Henan posted a video on Douyin showing villagers cooking over wood fires in large woks, saying they were even required to put out the fire while cooking. The video received about 34,000 likes, and sarcastic and joking remarks flooded the bullet comments and comment section.
2026-10-04
Yu Min, an insider in Tianjin's supervision system, told Epoch Times that multiple cases have occurred in Tianjin in which people were arrested before the basic facts of a report were verified. Those involved are mostly cadres at the district level or below; the amounts alleged cannot be traced to any source or destination, and are in fact political retaliation. Cases have occurred in both Hedong District and Nankai District.
2026-10-04
Retired judicial system official Jiang Yuewen told The Epoch Times that retaliatory arrests within the provincial bureaucratic system have long existed and are growing more frequent, with bribes of just over 100,000 yuan often described as more than 5 million yuan, inflating the amount involved more than tenfold in order to drive political rivals out of office.
2026-10-02
On October 2, residents of Shiping Village, Qiaotouhe Town, Lianyuan City, Hunan Province, reported that the public notice information for a 450,000 yuan vegetable base project construction payment in the village in 2023 did not match the actual project. The contract attached to the notice showed Longwan Village, and after the greenhouses were crushed by heavy snow that first winter, they have been abandoned ever since.
2026-09-30
He Xinyuan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Director and General Manager of Genertec Machine Tool Co., Ltd., is undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation for suspected serious violations of discipline and law.
2026-09-30
Yi Huiman, former chairman of the Chinese Communist Party's Securities Regulatory Commission, was officially transferred to prosecutors and indicted on September 30 on suspicion of accepting bribes and sex-for-power transactions.
2026-09-30
On September 30, according to official media reports, the Supreme People's Procuratorate made an arrest decision against Yi Huiman, former chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), on suspicion of accepting bribes, and designated the Qingdao Municipal People's Procuratorate to review and prosecute the case. Recently, an indictment was filed with the Qingdao Intermediate People's Court, accusing him of illegally accepting huge amounts of property by exploiting the privileges of his positions at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and the CSRC.
2026-09-29
The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection reported that Zhang Yuebin, former Party group member and deputy director of Xiamen Customs, is currently under review and investigation.
2026-09-29
Investigative reporter Liu Hu wrote on September 29 that Wang Yufeng, the whistleblower in the case of Huawel Microelectronics' illegal and non-compliant information disclosure, was taken away by Jilin police from Shanghai in November 2022 and has been detained for nearly four years. The case has entered the CSRC's proposed whistleblower reward list; as of September 23, the trial had lasted a cumulative 107 days, and several of Wang Yufeng's sealed companies have become substantively bankrupt.
2026-09-29
According to a report by Liu Hu, Wang Yufeng continuously reported Hao Jun, the former head of the economic crime investigation unit who handled his case, while in detention. Materials from another case presented at trial showed that Hao Jun had accepted a 20 million yuan bribe from Xia Zengwen, chairman of Huawai Electronics. Hao Jun has already been sentenced to 13 years and 8 months for accepting bribes.
2026-01
In the first half of 2026, 36 centrally-managed officials fell from power, including Politburo member Ma Xingrui and 7 officials at the ministerial level.
2026-09-24
Liu Yu, former Party Secretary and Chairman of China Resources Recycling Group Co., Ltd., was expelled from the Party and removed from office for serious disciplinary and legal violations, and was handed over to prosecutorial authorities.
2026-09-23
Bian Yuye, former chairman of Dafeng Rural Commercial Bank in Jiangsu, was accused of embezzling more than 15.9 million yuan and was held in detention (liuzhi) at a detention site in Zhangjiagang for 168 days. According to a September 23 report by investigative journalists Wu Yingjiao and Liu Hu, after the case-handling authorities checked the accounts, real estate and wealth-management products of him and his relatives, they found no evidence that he profited from the transactions of the two properties involved in the case; his defense lawyer entered a not-guilty plea.
2026-09-22
The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court announced the first-instance verdict in the corruption and bribery case of Zhao Lei, former general manager of the Beijing Cultural Investment Development Group, sentencing him to life imprisonment, depriving him of political rights for life, and confiscating all his personal property.
2026-09-18
On September 18, the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Chenzhou, Hunan, announced that Hu Qiming, former chairman of Zigong Cemented Carbide Co., Ltd., is suspected of serious disciplinary violations and illegal acts, and is currently undergoing review and investigation. The next day, online rumors circulated that he was suspected of smuggling waste tungsten alloy to Western military enterprises and accepting bribes, with four people reportedly arrested so far; however, these rumors have not yet been officially confirmed.
2026-09-21
On September 21, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision announced that Qin Weizhong, member of the Leading Party Group of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress and former mayor of Shenzhen, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation.
2026-09-21
Reuters reported on September 21, citing people familiar with the matter, that in some robot data collection centers and joint venture projects local governments may bear 80%–90% of the initial investment, and that project orders can support company valuations and help them reach the listing threshold; regulators are examining whether this represents genuine demand.
2026-09-20
On September 20, netizens reported that while taking a taxi in Xining, Qinghai, they found that a driver had an extremely professional knowledge of local administrative, ethnic, and geographical features, suspected to be Wang Xuewen, the former director of the Qinghai Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism who was previously dismissed for illegal drinking.
2026-09-18
On September 18, the official authorities in Zhumadian, Henan released a promotional video showing citizens spontaneously observing a moment of silence when the air raid siren sounded. This triggered skepticism among netizens in the comment section, who accused it of being staged and mocked official formalism such as not granting a holiday on the anniversary and keeping assembly lines running.
2026-09-19
Local government in Zhijiang, Hunan, dispatched administrative staff and police into a residential compound in an attempt to demolish facilities deemed excessively tall while refusing compensation, triggering on-site protests by owners, and the two sides at one point came into conflict.
2026-09-16
On September 16, the discipline inspection and supervision team of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and National Supervisory Commission stationed at the Agricultural Bank of China announced that Wang Qingshan, former general manager of the Assets and Liabilities Management Department of the Agricultural Bank of China, has been expelled from the Party for privately reading books with serious political problems over a long period and illegally accepting huge amounts of property.
2026-09-17
Dai Yulin, former Deputy Party Secretary and Vice Chairman of the Liaoning Provincial CPPCC, was announced by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on September 17, 2026, to be undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation, three years after his retirement. During his early tenure in Dalian, he was promoted by Bo Xilai, and subsequently served in the Liaoning officialdom for a long time, becoming entangled in relevant political purge trajectories.
2026-09-15
On September 15, the Jinan Intermediate People's Court in Shandong Province delivered a first-instance verdict, sentencing Bi Jingquan to 14 years in prison and a fine of 5 million yuan for accepting bribes totaling over 57.42 million yuan between 1995 and 2025 by abusing his official positions. Bi Jingquan previously served as Deputy Secretary-General of the State Council and Director of the State Food and Drug Administration.
2026-09-14
On September 14, Chi Wen, a former police officer at the Huangyan Branch of the Taizhou Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province, filed a real-name report against his two brothers, Chi Guangxu and Chi Rixin, who are both public officials. He accused them of long-term illegal business operations and using their power to monopolize the packaging bag business in their jurisdiction, securing high profits of 30% to 40%. He also alleged that they bribed leaders in the industry and commerce department and received tip-offs when they were under investigation by the discipline inspection commission.
2026-09-15
Bi Jingquan, former chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, was sentenced to 14 years in the first instance trial, found guilty of accepting bribes and having voluntarily confessed to most of the facts.
2026-09-14
According to an ICIJ investigation, days after Meng Wanzhou was indicted by the United States in February 2019, ICBC's London branch urgently convened nine employees on a Saturday, bypassing internal compliance procedures to remit more than $1.3 billion in Huawei deposits back to China; compliance officers raised risk warnings, but the Beijing headquarters insisted on proceeding with the transaction.
Location: London, United Kingdom ·
Importance IV ·
Verification: Reported ·
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2026-09-14
According to an ICIJ investigation, while Zhang Hongli, a former executive director of ICBC, was in office, his former employer Deutsche Bank accused him of transferring $3.9 million to a company owned by relatives; ICBC did not pursue the matter and instead promoted him to become the main driving force behind Belt and Road financing. Zhang Hongli was later sentenced by a Chinese court to a suspended death penalty for accepting bribes.
Location: London, United Kingdom ·
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Verification: Reported ·
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2026-09-14
On September 14, a community in Dongying, Shandong announced that starting this year it will roll out an "elderly caring for the elderly" community governance project, in which seniors aged 60 to 70 provide volunteer services for those aged 70 to 90, drawing questions from netizens.
2026-09-12
Xie Wenhui, former chairman of Chongqing Yufu Holdings, is under investigation, providing a breakthrough for the subsequent investigation into the Huang Qifan case.
2026-09-11
On September 11, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission together with the Ministry of Finance jointly reported six cases of local government hidden debt, naming Anhui’s Jieshou, Jiangxi’s Jiujiang and Ningxia’s Yinchuan for falsifying, misappropriating or using new loans to repay old ones, with “debt‑conversion fraud” amounts totaling 2.94 billion yuan, and also mentioned the issue that during Wu Shenghua’s tenure as former party secretary of Bijie, Guizhou, debt increased rather than decreased.
2026-09-11
On September 11, 2026, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Lei Siwei, former standing committee member of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and vice governor of Gansu, was expelled from the Party and removed from public office. He is the first provincial- and ministerial-level official to be placed under investigation since this year's Two Sessions.
2026-09-10
In a September 2026 program, Fox Man recalled that after he developed new energy and air conditioning patents in the 1990s, teachers from several top Chinese universities approached him, asking him to apply for funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission in the name of the patents, with the individual to receive half of the money once approved; he refused.
2026-09-08
Around September 8, investigative reporter Liu Hu disclosed on the WeChat public account "Fa Yu Qing" that when Liu Yuan served as deputy head of Xiaodian District in Taiyuan in 2006, he drove an official vehicle across double solid lines and turned left, causing 1 death and 6 injuries; he bore 504,000 yuan in compensation, and Liu Hu questioned the determination of accident liability.
2026-09-06
On September 6, 2026, an ideological and political theory teacher at Xiamen City Vocational College issued a notice strictly forbidding students from sitting in the last three rows, and claimed to use 360-degree panoramic surveillance to strictly check students' head-up rate, sparking ridicule over formalism in ideological and political courses at universities.
2026-09
The former head of the Qinghai Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism was dismissed from his post due to the death of a person during a drinking session at a Party school. After being stripped of his rank, he failed to secure a grassroots position within the system, leaving him facing the dilemma of choosing between driving a ride-hailing car and delivering food.
2026-09
Wu Jian, former chairman of Southwest Securities, and Xie Wenhui, a relevant person in charge at Chongqing Rural Commercial Bank, were successively placed under investigation, and several key figures in Chongqing's financial circle have been brought down.
2026-09
After Taizi Milk fell into a debt storm and was placed under government trusteeship in 2008, Wen Dibo, who was responsible for the trusteeship at the time, was later sentenced to 9 years in prison for related crimes.
2026-08-31
Wei Xiaodong, former chairman of the Beijing Municipal CPPCC Committee, Jiangxi Governor Ye Jianchun, and Liu Jianyang, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and head of its Organization Department, have successively been placed on file for review and investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, Xinhua News Agency relayed a report from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission: Ye Jianchun, Deputy Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and governor of the province, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation — only 3 days after he presided over the provincial government's executive meeting.
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, the Shandong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced that Liu Shengqin, former member of the Standing Committee of the Qingdao Municipal Committee and former head of the Publicity Department, was expelled from the Party and public office for serious disciplinary and legal violations, including accepting huge amounts of money and property and illegally interfering in judicial proceedings.
Location: Qingdao, Shandong ·
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2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, a villager from Yilin Village, Zhaozhou County, Daqing, Heilongjiang, posted a video reporting that while making a real-name complaint about corn drip irrigation tape issues on-site, the village party secretary issued a death threat using aggressive language to their face, while the discipline inspection officials present failed to intervene.
2026-08-26
On August 26, 2026, Wang Xiaohui, Secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, presided over a meeting of the Provincial Party Standing Committee. The title of the official communiqué included in-depth study of the Party building thought, and, in line with the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, he deployed discipline inspection and supervision work across the whole province.
2026-08-25
The Chinese Communist Party's draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law has been submitted to a session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for its first reading.
2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, the Dandong Intermediate People's Court in Liaoning Province held a public first-instance sentencing in the bribery case of Ren Yuzhong, former standing committee member and vice president of Peking University, finding him guilty of taking more than 31.95 million yuan in bribes and sentencing him to eight years in prison plus a fine of 2.6 million yuan.
Location: Dandong, Liaoning ·
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2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, three days before he was placed under investigation, Jiangxi Governor Ye Jianchun called for further tightening of the approval process for one-time provincial-level funds.
2026-08-22
The CCDI held an interim plenary session, elected Zhao Shiyong and Zhang Zhong as deputy secretaries, and arranged the interview and examination work for members and alternate members of the Central Committee.
2026-08-21
On August 21, the website of the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection published a list of 12 people being dealt with, including Zeng Sheng, secretary-general of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee, and Liu Huawen, former secretary-general of the Jilin Provincial Government.
2026-08-20
Xu Jiayin, former chairman of Evergrande Group, was sentenced to life imprisonment, and his two sons, Xu Zhijian and Xu Tenghe, were also sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment.
2026-08-20
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection officially announced that Yang Xinsheng, Deputy Mayor of Heze City and Party Secretary of Yun County, is under investigation.
2026-08-20
The Brisbane Magistrates Court announced that Zhu Guoxin, a Growatt executive who attempted to bribe Australian officials, has been handed over to the Australian immigration department for immediate deportation to China after receiving a suspended sentence, and is banned from business entry for life.
2026-08-20
On August 20, He Xiong, director of the Henan Provincial Government General Office, the deputy mayor of Heze in Shandong, and the former president of the Agricultural Bank of China's Jilin Branch were placed on a list for handling.
2026-08-20
On August 20, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection officially announced that Yang Xinsheng, deputy mayor of Heze City in Shandong, is under investigation and scrutiny; some commentators believe he belongs to Peng Liyuan's Shandong faction.
2026-08-20
On August 20, 2026, the Shandong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced that Yang Xinsheng, Deputy Mayor of Heze City and Secretary of the Yuncheng County Party Committee, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation.
2026-08-18
On August 18, 2026, the Hangzhou investigation and handling team issued a report confirming that Yu Tingdong, deputy head of Binjiang District, Hangzhou, has been criminally detained by the police in accordance with the law on suspicion of forced indecent assault.
2026-08-17
On August 17, 2026, after the resume of Yu Tingdong, deputy head of Binjiang District in Hangzhou, was taken down, a former investigative journalist wrote an article revealing the unwritten rules of the real estate circle, in which drinking gatherings are used to court officials and harm women. The article quickly went viral online.
2026-08-16
On August 16, 2026, Shijiazhuang in Hebei was reported to have set up a marriage registration office at the Luquan Highway Service Area along with promotional slogans; local government's varied efforts to promote marriage registration have once again sparked public debate.
2026-08-12
Lin Jian, Deputy Party Secretary and Mayor of Nanping City, is suspected of serious disciplinary and legal violations and is currently under investigation while in office.
2026-08-07
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) issued a notice stating that Zhang Yigong, Party Secretary of Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, is suspected of serious disciplinary violations and the law, and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation.
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Zhang Yigong, Party Secretary of Quanzhou, Fujian, is under investigation and scrutiny.
2026-08-04
On August 4, 2026, the Handan Intermediate People's Court in Hebei announced that an audio recording of improper remarks circulating online was authentic. Guo Hongbo, director of the enforcement bureau of the Congtai District Court, was suspended and placed under a special investigation for soliciting bribes from a female party to the case and verbally harassing her.
2026-08-02
On August 2, 2026, Henan provincial authorities officially confirmed that illegal cheating occurred during the 2026 'Three Supports and One Assistance' public examination. The head of the Henan Personnel Examination Center has been suspended for investigation, and the police have established a special task force to open a criminal case.
Location: Zhengzhou, Henan ·
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Verification: Official claim ·
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2026-08-02
In August 2026, several grassroots civil servants and public institution staff in Fushun, Liaoning reported that the municipal party secretary was pushing formalist flood control: whenever it rained, everyone was sent out to stand guard on the streets, and staff were even required to keep watch continuously at sites with 40-degree heat and no cooling facilities.
2026-08
The video cites insiders as saying that local government finances are strained, and higher-level authorities are requiring the grassroots to handle finances with one hand and maintain stability with the other, achieving this through tax audits, fines, and strengthened control over personnel; no public reports have been found backing this claim.
2026-08
Fujian Province has recently seen a political earthquake, with Nanping Mayor Lin Jian and Quanzhou Party Secretary Zhang Yigong falling one after another within days; after Wei Xiaokui of the Wen Jiabao faction took over as secretary of the Fujian Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, incidents have occurred frequently locally.
2026-08
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Xu Yiding, former deputy governor of the Agricultural Development Bank of China, has been expelled from the Party and removed from office, and handed over to prosecutorial authorities, on suspicion of trading power for money in areas such as credit approval and personnel recruitment.
2026-08
Reports in early August 2026 revealed that the Sichuan Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee's 2026 Bulletin No. 3 disclosed that the provincial People's Congress Standing Committee removed Li Yunze from his post as a deputy to the National People's Congress on May 27.
2026-08
In August 2026, China proposed a draft cross-border anti-corruption law to counter "excessive or fabricated" restrictions imposed by foreign countries on Chinese enterprises in the name of anti-corruption.
2026-07-31
Former Finance Minister Lou Jiwei is under investigation. The program said Lou once served under Zhu Rongji and had criticized "Made in China 2025" and the pandemic lockdowns.
2026-07-31
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Guo Wenqing, former deputy secretary of the Party group and general manager of China Minmetals, turned himself in under the crackdown campaign.
2026-07-31
Xin Baoan, former chairman of State Grid, was taken away in Beijing after returning from New York.此前 news of his participation in government activities in Hangzhou had previously been reported.
2026-07-31
Xin Bao'an, former Party Group Secretary and Chairman of the State Grid Corporation of China, is under investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and National Supervisory Commission.
2026-07-31
Online reports claim that a relative of a Shanghai court president received 7 compensation apartments, worth more than 20 million yuan in total, after the demolition of an old 40-square-meter house in a town, which is said to reflect the collusion between officials and real estate developers, leaving ordinary people with no avenue to defend their rights.
2026-07-27
Wang Maoliang, former Executive Deputy Minister of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department and former Party Secretary of Hubei Radio and Television Station, is under investigation by the Hubei Provincial Supervision Commission for suspected serious duty violations.
2026-07-27
Xinhua News Agency reported that Huang Siming, former secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Helan Mountain Eastern Foothills Wine Industry Park in Ningxia, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the discipline inspection commission.
2026-07-27
On July 27, 2026, the Acheng District Government Service Center in Harbin, Heilongjiang was exposed for setting up an extremely low, seatless Ding Yizhen-style window. After the story gained traction online, staff from the department involved privately messaged a self-media blogger, admitting it was true and requesting that the video be taken down.
2026-07-26
From August 12, 2026, it was widely reported online that Zhao Haifeng, a China Merchants Shekou executive in Zhejiang, and Yu Tingdong, deputy head of Hangzhou's Binjiang District, allegedly committed sexual assault and seriously injured a woman at a business drinking gathering; the official's résumé was taken down.
2026-07-25
China's State Administration for Market Regulation has found that Ctrip abused its dominant position in the hotel booking market, confiscating its illegal gains and imposing a fine totaling approximately 5.179 billion yuan.
2026-07-25
In the first half of 2026, discipline inspection and supervision organs nationwide received 2.188 million reports and filed 538,000 cases, including 50 officials at or above the provincial and ministerial level and 2,773 officials at the department and bureau level.
2026-07-25
On July 25, the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection reported that 36 centrally-managed cadres had fallen in the first half of 2026, and 50 provincially-managed cadres were placed under investigation, nearing last year's full-year record of 65.
2026-07-25
The State Administration for Market Regulation determined that Ctrip violated Article 22 of the Anti-Monopoly Law, confiscating illegal gains of 1.658 billion and imposing a fine of 3.521 billion, totaling 5.179 billion in fines and confiscations.
2026-07-24
Wei Xiaokui took office as acting director of the Fujian Provincial Supervisory Commission on July 24, as the principal heads of the Fujian Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Supervisory Commission continue to undergo changes.
2026-07-24
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) has issued a notice announcing that Fang Xinghai is under investigation for serious violations of discipline and law.
2026-07-24
On July 24, 2026, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Fang Xinghai, the retired former vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, is under review and investigation for suspected serious violations of discipline and law; foreign media disclosed that he had previously applied for a position at the World Bank but was rejected.
2026-07-23
Former head of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee's first inspection team Li Ping was announced to be subject to disciplinary review and supervisory investigation.
2026-07-20
On August 10, 2026, foreign media reported that Shenzhen significantly tightened metro security checks in preparation for an international summit, scanning and searching passengers' belongings one by one, causing morning rush-hour queues lasting up to half an hour. It was criticized as an expensive, formalistic "security performance."
2026-07-19
The former deputy secretary of the Party committee and former president of the China Development Bank, Ouyang Weimin, is under investigation for serious disciplinary and legal violations. The case is believed to involve senior party figures, prompting external interpretations of Caixin's related reports and attention to former associates of Wang Qishan.
2026-07-17
Wang Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the United Front Work Department, has been announced to be under investigation.
2026-07-17
On July 17, 2026, Wang Qiang, Member of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and Head of the United Front Work Department, voluntarily surrendered.
2026-07-17
The Xinhua News Agency's Ban Yue Tan magazine published an investigative report, exposing that public officials within the CCP system use their positions to obtain internal secrets in advance about officials being promoted or being arrested by the disciplinary committee, and then post them online in the form of “official resumes” or homophonic coded short videos, charging fees.
2026-07-17
In July 2026, Party media Banyuetan disclosed that Duan, a public servant at a government organ in Guiyang, ran 9 WeChat official accounts, using information advantages within the system to predict officials' downfalls before official announcements and drive traffic to charge group-joining fees, sparking discussion on regulatory systems.
2026-07-15
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Cai Fuchao, former deputy head of the Publicity Department of the CCP Central Committee, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation.
2026-07-14
Official CCP reports on July 14 stated that former Xinjiang party secretary Ma Xingrui was expelled from the Communist Party and removed from public office for serious violations of discipline and law, involving allegations of condoning relatives in seeking massive benefits and family corruption.
2026-07-10
The Central Committee held a special meeting on rectifying formalism and reducing the burden on the grassroots. Cai Qi attended and arranged for 'tackling the issue of new officials ignoring old debts and focusing on the rectification of prominent problems'.
2026-07-09
He Guangliang, former chairman of Guizhou Phosphate Group, is under investigation; Rao Yuzhu, former first-level inspector of the Guizhou Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, is under investigation on the same day.
2026-07-09
Growatt Australian executive Guoxin Zhu hid A$20,000 in cash inside a tea box and offered it to a representative of the Clean Energy Council of Australia in an attempt to expedite product approval; the representative refused the bribe and reported it, leading to a joint investigation by Australian police.
2026-07-09
The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Liu Nanyue and Guo Qi, former directors and deputy general managers of China Mobile Beijing Company, were placed under investigation on the same day.
2026-07-07
Former Deputy Minister of State Security Li Qian has taken office as the leader of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and National Supervisory Commission (NSC) discipline inspection and supervision team stationed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, officially entering the Ministry's headquarters to audit accounts.
2026-07-03
Quan Shunji, president of the China Asian Economic Development Association under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is under investigation, which is seen as the first step by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to launch peripheral investigations into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs system.
2026-07-02
Following the July 1 Party Founding Day, the CCDI's arrest machinery resumed its normal speed, processing five units in a single day—including large state-owned enterprises, water conservancy construction worker organizations, government think tanks, and local people's congresses—demonstrating that the arrest operations are proceeding as planned.
2026-07
Ma Xingrui was transferred for prosecution, and his confidant and Guangzhou Municipal Party Secretary Guo Yonghang was subsequently investigated.
2026-07
A person claiming to be a Three Gorges Project worker alleged that multiple reservoirs in Hengzhou, Guangxi, burst their dams during a typhoon, killing more than 17,000 people, and that the local government covered up the disaster.
2026-07
Fang Xinghai, former vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), was placed under investigation in July 2026, becoming another senior official to fall in the Chinese Communist Party's anti-corruption campaign in the financial sector.
2026-07
China's market regulator imposed an administrative penalty on Ctrip for monopolistic conduct, ordering it to refund order deposit funds, confiscating its illegal gains and imposing a hefty fine, with total fines and confiscations exceeding 5 billion yuan.
2026-07-01
Du Ling, former vice chairperson of the Guangdong Federation of Trade Unions, is under investigation. This follows closely after the leadership reshuffle at the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, indicating that the trade union system is being purged.
2026-07
Former Shanghai Stock Exchange Deputy General Manager Fang Xinghai and more than 100 related officials were taken down by the authorities over issues including insider trading.
2026-07-01
A village Party secretary led more than 30 Party members and officials in a lavish feast to celebrate the Party's birthday, only to be caught on the spot by villagers.
2026-07
According to the source material, in July 2026, Ouyang Weimin, former head of China Development Bank, was placed under investigation.
2026-06-26
On June 26, 2026, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress announced the termination of the representative qualifications of 14 people, including Li Yunze, Ma Xingrui, Fei Gaoyun, and Guo Yonghang, of whom 6 were removed by congress of servicemen and 1 resigned.
2026-06-26
On the evening of June 26, 2026, reports circulated online that CITIC Tower (China Zun) in Chaoyang District, Beijing, was struck by a small aircraft; the exact cause is unknown.
2026-06-23
Zhu Zisong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and former party chief of the Pudong New Area, was tried in another jurisdiction in Nanchang. He was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in the first instance, convicted of accepting bribes totaling 139 million yuan, with his criminal origins traced back to his tenure at the Eighth Academy of Aerospace in 2003.
2026-06-22
Dai Beifang, former chairman of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), has been expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office. After retirement, she served as the president of the Shenzhen Charity Federation.
2026-06-16
Jiang Hongwei, Deputy Secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, is under investigation.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, the Wall Street Journal reported that the anti-corruption campaign led by Xi Jinping has expanded to political loyalty and the punishment of superstition, and that in 2025 the Chinese Communist Party’s discipline inspection system punished nearly one million people, a record high.
2026-06-15
The CCDI reported the violation of conducting financing trade by Liu Xuewu, former general manager of Inner Mongolia Communications Group, coordinating with Wang Yong's research group to create a deterrent effect.
2026-06-13
According to the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision, Yu Xiaoping, former member of the Party Committee and Vice President of the People's Insurance Company of China, is suspected of severe violations of discipline and law, and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation.
2026-06-11
Feng Gang, a bureau-level inspector in Jilin Province who long served as the director of the Jilin Provincial Prison Administration, is under investigation.
2026-06-10
Shanghai Vice Mayor Chen Yujian has fallen and is undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, and is accused of paving his upward path through Wei Xiaodong.
2026-06-10
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission issued an official report stating that Chen Yujian, member of the leading Party members group of the Shanghai municipal government and vice mayor of Shanghai, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the CCDI and the National Supervisory Commission. The Songjiang District, which he once governed, was the site of the Phicomm-Lianbi financial blow-up case.
2026-06-08
Wei Xiaokui, an official promoted by Wen Jiabao, has been parachuted into Fujian to serve as the provincial discipline inspection secretary, responsible for retroactively investigating old cases involving the Fujian faction.
2026-06-08
On June 8, 2026, according to the New Fujian client, the central government approved the appointment of Wei Xiaokui as a member and standing committee member of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, and as Secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection; he previously served as Deputy Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, later as Vice Governor of Fujian, and was appointed Acting Director of the Provincial Supervisory Commission on July 24.
2026-06-06
The website of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision reported that Wei Xiaodong, Chairman of the Beijing Municipal Political Consultative Conference, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation.
2026-06-06
On June 6, 2026, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Wei Xiaodong, chairman of the Beijing CPPCC, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is under investigation; he had served as head of the Organization Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee since 2021.
2026-06-02
On June 2, 2026, the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and local discipline inspection commissions announced on the same day that at least 10 senior officials, including Li Xiaohong, former director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Inspection Work, were placed under review and investigation, involving inspection work, finance, and local politics.
2026-06
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Jiang Hongwei, Deputy Secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission and Deputy Director of the Provincial Supervisory Commission, has fallen from power. This is seen as a key breakthrough by the anti-Xi alliance attempting to pry open old accounts from the period when Li Zhanshu governed Heilongjiang.
2026-06
The purges within official circles of the Chinese Communist Party continue. Jiang Hongwei, Deputy Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission and Deputy Director of the Supervisory Commission of Heilongjiang Province, along with Cao Peng, Party Leadership Group Member of the Shenyang Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee, have both fallen and are under investigation.
Location: Shenyang, Heilongjiang ·
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2026-06
In the first quarter of 2026, only 3 non-standard default events occurred among local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) nationwide, a significant drop compared to the same period in previous years. Analysis suggests this may be related to local governments defaulting on debts or the central bank increasing monetary financing of fiscal deficits.
2026-06
Eight centrally-managed officials were taken down in the single month of June 2026, deviating by three standard deviations from the normal level, indicating an abnormally intensified purge.
2026-06
Ran Hailing, former president of Bank of Chongqing who took part in financial reform and the disposal of non-performing assets during Huang Qifan's tenure, has been brought down.
2026-06-01
A university teacher submitted a post arguing that engineering education accreditation, while wearing a non-governmental mask, is actually an administrative directive that reduces engineering universities to formalistic administrative performances, resulting in the 'high schoolization of universities'.
2026-05-27
Wang Xiaohong has not made a public appearance for days following his meeting with the Prosecutor General of Russia. The Central Inspection Group has moved into the Ministry of Public Security, and Wang is cooperating with the special investigation team led by Liu Jinguo of the CCDI.
2026-05-26
Guo Bing, former executive vice president of Jiangxi Higher People's Court, has been arrested.
2026-05-12
Fang Rui, Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has been arrested.
2026-05-06
On May 6, 2026, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Fei Gaoyun, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Anhui Provincial Committee and secretary of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is under investigation.
2026-04-30
Yi Huiman was expelled from the Party and public office; the communique mentioned relatives seeking personal gain through listing approvals, financing and loans.
2026-04-28
On April 28, 2026, Li Yunze was announced as removed from his posts of Party Secretary and Director of the National Financial Regulatory Administration; the next day his information was deleted from the leadership section of the official website, and he was later stripped of his status as a deputy to the National People's Congress.
2026-04-15
In mid-April 2026, the former chairman of China's Aviation Industry Corporation was sentenced to death for corruption and malfeasance. The group is the main producer of most of China's combat aircraft.
2026-04-03
Former Xinjiang Party Secretary Ma Xingrui was officially announced to be under investigation, and authorities announced his specific charges over 3 months later.
2026-04
Ruan Lu, who had long served in Chongqing's financial system, has been investigated for using approvals of financial institution qualifications and recommendations for corporate listings to amass huge amounts of property.
2026-03-27
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Guo Yonghang is under review investigation.
2026-03-24
Xu Yanbin, director of the Poyang Lake Water Control Hub Construction Office in Jiangxi Province, was placed under review and investigation on March 24. Officials said he voluntarily reported his issues to the organization.
2026-03-20
Hu Henghua, Deputy Party Secretary and Mayor of Chongqing, has been officially announced to be under disciplinary review and supervisory investigation. Yuan Jiajun, Party Secretary of Chongqing, presided over a Standing Committee meeting to express support for the central authorities' decision.
2026-03
Deputy Director of the State Financial Supervision Administration Zhou Liang falls; he worked with Wang Qishan for as long as 20 years.
2026-03
Guo Yonghang, a former subordinate of Ma Xingrui during his time working in Shenzhen, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China and accused of serious violations of discipline and law.
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong ·
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2026-03
Guo Yonghang has been announced to be under investigation. He worked alongside Ma Xingrui for a long time before serving as the Party Secretary of Guangzhou.
2026-02-12
On February 12, former journalist Gao Qinrong released a video review stating that in 1998, because he exposed a 280 million yuan vanity project in Yuncheng, Shanxi, which prompted hundreds of media outlets to follow up, he subsequently paid a heavy price.
2026-02-10
On February 10, 2026, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Yi Lianhong, formerly Party Secretary of Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces and currently deputy director of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the 14th National People's Congress, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is under investigation.
2026
Between 2023 and 2026, thousands of county-level rural commercial banks in China quietly disappeared, absorbed and merged by prefecture-level city rural commercial banks, masking trillions of yuan in hidden debt held by local governments.
2025-10
In October 2025, Guo Xudong, the retired former deputy director of the China Securities Regulatory Commission's (CSRC) Department of Issuance Supervision, turned himself in.
2025-10
Lü Dengdi, a former official of Fanjiazhuang Township, Quyang County, Baoding, Hebei, escaped while under residential surveillance for a 2010 case involving the assault of a villager. During his 15 years on the run, he continued to receive his salary in violation of regulations and even received promotions. He was recaptured in 2025.
2025-09-28
On September 28, 2025, in Hujiatun Village, Wanquan District, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, a village official exploited his position as an agent at a China Construction Bank branch to secretly transfer tens of millions of yuan of villagers’ pension savings into a personal account and absconded with the money, leaving many elderly residents in dire straits.
2025-09-05
On September 5, multiple media outlets confirmed that Yi Huiman, former chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), has been taken away for investigation on suspicion of corruption, marking the second probe of him this year. Sources familiar with the matter said it is related to his relatives interfering in IPOs and internal corruption at ICBC. During his tenure, he oversaw 1,838 A-share IPOs with a total value exceeding 11 trillion yuan.
2025-08-22
On August 22, 2025, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Wang Lixia, Deputy Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee and Chairperson of the regional government, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is undergoing review and investigation.
2025-07
According to a report dated September 19, 2026, Yin Xiangfeng, director of the Shaoyang County Public Security Bureau, and Tang Zhanxiong, deputy director, both involved in the Zheng Shuai case, were removed from office in July 2025, but Zheng Shuai remained in custody as of the report's publication.
2025-04-30
Incumbent CSRC Vice Chairman Wang Jianjun is under investigation.
2025-04-12
Wang Qunshan, a wealth manager at a Postal Savings Bank in Shangqiu, Henan Province, was found dead by hanging early the next morning after his superiors discovered problems in his work and he was spoken to by leaders; subsequently, his economic crime of embezzling more than 10 million yuan of depositors' funds came to light.
2025-03
Wang Huimin, former head of the CSRC discipline inspection team, is under investigation.
2025
The program cited government-released data claiming that in 2025, over one million officials were dealt with, while the actual number of people involved approached two million.
2024-12-13
The Intermediate People's Court of Xianning City, Hubei Province, announced the first-instance verdict in the case of Li Tie. Li Tie was convicted of crimes including accepting bribes and sentenced to 20 years in prison. His status as a non-state personnel has sparked external discussions about the football association system.
2024-11-15
On November 15, 2024, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Tang Renjian, former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, had been expelled from the Party and removed from public office, and that the case of suspected bribery had been transferred to the procuratorate; the announcement said he had improperly accepted gift money and sought benefits for others.
2024-09-28
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Cao Xingxin, former Vice General Manager of China Unicom who long served in the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee, was subjected to disciplinary review and investigation, and later sentenced to 12 years in prison.
2024-09
A grid worker's preliminary investigation in Jiulong Town, Qidong, found that a 55-year-old man in the village receiving subsistence allowances had 20,000 yuan in savings, after which his subsistence allowance was cancelled. After repeatedly arguing his case to no avail, the man rushed into the village committee and killed a 25-year-old female grid worker, then committed suicide by taking poison.
2024-08
In August 2024, former Guizhou Provincial Party Secretary Sun Zhigang appeared in court for trial, accused of amassing vast wealth by helping others subscribe to shares, secure construction contracts and engage in real estate development, among other means, embezzling 813 million yuan. He said in court, "I have let the Party down and betrayed my original aspirations."
2024-06-21
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) announced that Zhang Jianchun, former Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the CCP Central Committee, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation, making him the earliest official to fall in this round of organizational system purging.
2024-06-10
Shanghai Vice Mayor Chen Yujian, who was previously involved in the background of the Phicomm financial scandal, has been investigated and removed from office by the CCDI.
2024-06
Guizhou Health Commission Party Committee Secretary Yang Hui was investigated in June 2024.
2024-06
Due to the enormous scale of the case against him, Ma Xingrui was expelled from the Party and public office by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in late June and handed over to judicial authorities.
2024-05-18
In 2024, Tang Renjian, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, was placed under investigation and was later expelled from the Party.
2024-05
In May 2024, Guizhou Province began a case study reform based on the Sun Zhigang case, which led to the involvement of health system officials such as Yang Hui, Yang Hong, and Yang Keqin.
2024-04-29
Dong Changqing, former member of the Party Committee and deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Public Security Department, is suspected of serious disciplinary violations and is under investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
2024-04
In June 2026 it was exposed online that officers from a police station in Taizhou, Zhejiang, led by two deputy directors, collectively solicited opposite-sex hostesses at a KTV and were caught on the spot by the discipline inspection commission; for two years after the incident the authorities made no public announcement, imposing only minor internal punishments of removal from office while all of them retained their public-sector posts.
2024-02-18
Prince Andrew has been officially arrested by British police on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
2024-02
Former Party Committee Secretary and President of China Merchants Bank, Tian Huiyu, sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve.
2023-10
The 6th Central Inspection Team entered the General Technology Group to conduct inspections, laying the groundwork for the subsequent downfall of multiple executives in the machine tool sector.
2023-04
On the same day, another indictment brought the number of defendants to 44, these officials are within China.
2022-07-07
SOHO China announced in a filing that Chief Financial Officer Ni Huiyang is under investigation for suspected insider trading in the company's shares, and assets have been forced to remain within China.
2022-01
Former CCP Central Committee Inspection Team Deputy Leader Dong Hong sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve.
2022
Land transfer revenue peaked at 8.7 trillion yuan in 2021, then recorded double-digit declines for four consecutive years starting in 2022, falling to 4.15 trillion yuan in 2025, a drop of about 52.3% from the peak.
2021-09-10
Blackstone made an offer to acquire all of SOHO China's shares, but the deal lapsed that September after the State Administration for Market Regulation launched an antitrust investigation.
2021-06
In 2021, during the nationwide education and rectification campaign for the political and legal affairs workforce, cases of sentence reduction, parole, and temporary service of sentences outside prison dating back to 1990 were reviewed retrospectively; on June 10, it was announced that 10279 cases of violations had been corrected.
2021-02
The Wall Street Journal reported that Ant Group's equity structure includes capital linked to political families, including Boyu Capital, which was co-founded by Alvin Jiang.
2020-04-19
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) announced that Sun Lijun, Vice Minister of Public Security who once oversaw Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan affairs as well as cross-border law enforcement, is under disciplinary review and supervisory investigation for suspected severe violations of discipline and law.
2018-07
After Xi Jinping issued his sixth directive, Xu Lingyi, Deputy Secretary of the CCDI, led a team into Shaanxi to demolish 1,194 illegally built villas in the Qinling Mountains and discipline multiple provincial and ministerial-level officials.
2018-04-12
The first-instance trial of Sun Zhengcai's bribery case opened at the Tianjin No. 1 Intermediate People's Court on April 12, 2018; online posts claim that evidence footage played in court showed Zhang Jun as one of those who offered bribes, a claim not seen in any public reports.
2017-11-21
In 2017, Lu Wei, head of the Cyberspace Administration of China known as the "internet czar," fell from power over corruption, and in 2019 he was sentenced to 14 years, a longer term than many of the big-name internet influencers he had arrested while in office.
2016-09
In September 2016, Dushan County in Guizhou broke ground on a nearly 100-meter-tall all-wood Water Company Building despite fiscal revenue of less than 1 billion yuan, taking on nearly 200 million yuan in debt; it later became an unfinished project after the funding chain broke.
2016-02-05
According to a report by Caixin, Zhang Jun, chairman of Fuide Insurance Holdings, was taken away by relevant authorities on February 5, 2016 to assist in an investigation; market rumors linked the case to Liu Zhigeng, vice governor of Guangdong Province.
2015-02-19
On February 19, 2015 (the first day of the Lunar New Year), at a Spring Festival gathering in Beigaoying Village, Chang'an District, Shijiazhuang, Jia Jinglong shot and killed He Jianhua, the village Party branch secretary and village committee director, with a modified nail gun, over the forced demolition of his marital home in 2013.
2015
Che Feng, who acted as a wealth management agent for multiple red-family elites, was taken away for investigation in 2015. He was involved in massive capital operations including Haitong Securities and Ping An Insurance.
2014-12-05
The CCP Central Committee reported that Zhou Yongkang leaked Party and state secrets, committed adultery with multiple women, and engaged in power-for-sex and money-for-sex transactions.
2013-01
The first session of the 12th Liaoning Provincial People's Congress elected 102 deputies to the National People's Congress; it was later discovered that 45 of them were involved in vote-buying. Among the 619 provincial deputies, 523 were implicated and eventually resigned or were removed from office.
2012-11-20
Chongqing official Lei Zhengfu was dismissed within 63 hours after an explicit video was exposed, triggering a subsequent series of cases involving officials being blackmailed via bedside hidden cameras.
2012-03-18
In the early morning of March 18, 2012, Ling Gu, the only son of Ling Jihua, died in a Ferrari crash near the Baofusi Bridge on Beijing's North Fourth Ring Road. Two young women in the car were severely injured, triggering high-level political maneuvering and intensive news censorship.
2011
Shenzhen Metro Group completely transferred up to 60% of the state-owned shares in the Dongmen Old Street overhead property project to Yuanwei Industry, turning the project into private property for the elite.
2009-12
Li Botan founded the Moutai Club in a government-owned courtyard house in Beijing, gathering red aristocrats, financial tycoons, and private entrepreneurs to form a covert organizational platform connecting power and capital.
2009
Zhou Jiugong, head of the Jiangning District Housing Bureau in Nanjing, was brought down and in 2009 was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
2008-12
Photos of Zhou Jiugong smoking famous-brand cigarettes and wearing a luxury watch during a meeting were posted online, and netizens used them to investigate his consumer goods and income.
2008-06
In June 2008, Wang Yi, Vice President of the China Development Bank, who had been in a relationship with Liu Fangfei and paid off her mortgage, was taken away by a special investigation team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for 'shuanggui' (a form of detention for party members). He was later sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in 2010.
2006-12
Eight days after Du Shicheng's incident, his relative Du Xishan resigned from all positions at Qingdao Golden Coast Hotel Co., Ltd.
2006-10
In October 2006, Li Wei was taken into police custody on suspicion of evading tax payments; she was reportedly close to Chen Tonghai, then chairman of Sinopec.
2006-09-24
On September 24, 2006, the CCP Central Committee decided to remove Chen Liangyu from his posts as Secretary of the CCP Shanghai Municipal Committee and others, and to place him under investigation, on suspicion of misappropriating Shanghai social security fund investments.
2006-09-13
Overseas investigators, calling on behalf of an embassy, questioned Bo Xilai by telephone about the forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners during his tenure in Liaoning, and Bo Xilai implicated Jiang Zemin in the conversation.
2006-07
The CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection began a thorough investigation into Shanghai's social security system, paving the way for a subsequent investigation into Chen Liangyu.
2005
According to Lang Xianping's own account in October 2006, while hosting a television program at the end of 2005 he received an anonymous email reporting the misappropriation of Shanghai's social security fund and drawing attention to businessman Zhang Rongkun; the central authorities began investigating the case in early 2006.
2003-01
Yu Xiaoping was transferred from the head office to serve as the president of the China Development Bank Shenzhen Branch. He ruled locally for seven years, leading massive and enormous policy-backed loans for projects such as the Shenzhen Metro.
2003
Jia Qinglin served as a member of the CCP Central Committee Political Bureau Standing Committee and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference for 10 consecutive years starting from 2003. During this period and thereafter, his son-in-law Li Botan managed the family's wealth through offshore companies and white-glove agents.
2001-10-26
On the night of October 26, 2001, Hu Wenhai, a villager of Dayukou Village in Jinzhong, Shanxi, shot and killed 14 people in a row after having reported village officials to the authorities for a long time without result; he was executed by shooting on January 25, 2002.
2001
In 2001, Du Shicheng, who had just become mayor of Qingdao, instructed Jiang Junshan, secretary-general of the municipal government, to coordinate the transfer of two heritage villas to Li Wei, with a reference price set at the old 1993 rate.
1999-04-20
On April 20, 1999, central leaders issued instructions to thoroughly investigate the Xiamen Yuanhua smuggling case, and the “April 20” special task force was established to probe the smuggling and corruption of Lai Changxing’s Yuanhua Group.
1999
Li Wei met Wang Yi, then vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), through Li Jiating, and afterwards began taking heavy positions in listed companies under Sinopec.
1995-04-27
With the suicide of Beijing Vice Mayor Wang Baosen and Chen Xitong's resignation taking responsibility, he was subsequently removed from office and sentenced to 16 years in prison for embezzlement and dereliction of duty.
1990
According to the video, after receiving a capital injection, Three Gorges Bank was allegedly used for stock trading, which later resulted in losses; some of the people involved fled overseas and others were arrested.
1987
With Qiao Shi's support and Zhao Ziyang's approval, China Kanghua was officially established. It subsequently rapidly split into numerous subsidiaries, becoming a symbol of official profiteering and privileges.
1986
After Sun Guangtian was caught by the police station for soliciting prostitution at a bath center, he called Bo Xilai, who arrived on the scene, took him away, and said that Sun Guangtian was investigating on his dispatch.
1981
In 1981, China established the National Family Planning Commission. Over the following 20-plus years it grew into a massive bureaucratic system, with full-time family planning public employees reaching 800,000 by 2000.
1973
In 1973, the property under the name of Peter Godber, Chief Superintendent of the Hong Kong Police Force, exceeded HK$4.3 million. After the ordinance of the Independent Commission Against Corruption required him to explain the source of his wealth, he fled back to Britain, sparking anti-corruption protests among the Hong Kong public.