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.
2026-10-30
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.
2026-10-22
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."
2026-10-18
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.
2026-10-13
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.
2026-10-12
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
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.
2026-10-08
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.
2026-10-04
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.
2026-09-30
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.
2026-01
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.
2026-09-23
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.
2026-09-17
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.
2026-09-15
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.
2026-09-12
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.
2026-08-31
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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2026-08-26
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, 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
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
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.
2026-08-12
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
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
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 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.
2026-07-27
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.
2026-07-26
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
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.
2026-07-24
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.
2026-07-19
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.
2026-07-15
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.
2026-07-09
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
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
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.
2026-07-01
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.
2026-07-01
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.
2026-06-10
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
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.
2026-05-27
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.
2026-04-03
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
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.
2026-02-10
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.
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.
2025-04-30
Incumbent CSRC Vice Chairman Wang Jianjun is under investigation.
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.
2024-11-15
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.
2024-08
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
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.
2024-04-29
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.
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.
2022-01
Former CCP Central Committee Inspection Team Deputy Leader Dong Hong sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve.
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.
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.
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.
2016-02-05
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2006-07
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.
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.
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.