Official Scandals · Full chronicle and history

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Eight days after Du Shicheng's incident, his relative Du Xishan resigned from all positions at Qingdao Golden Coast Hotel Co., Ltd.

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.

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.

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.