Central Commission for Discipline Inspection · Full chronicle and history

Recently, the official WeChat account of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission published an article promoting the Communist Party's "half a quilt" spirit. A netizen's reply, "Is that true?", received over 4,000 likes, which is dozens of times more than other comments.

On October 30, the CCP Central Committee held a press conference for the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee. Zhang Fuhai, Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, disclosed that since the 18th National Congress in 2012, discipline inspection and supervision agencies nationwide have disciplined a total of 7.922 million people, including 963 centrally-managed officials, and stated that the anti-corruption situation remains severe and complex.

On October 26, the second day of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the official website of the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that from January to September this year, discipline inspection and supervision organs nationwide filed a total of 800,000 cases, among which 73 were at provincial and ministerial level or above (90 in the same period last year), and 4,203 were at department and bureau level (3,704 in the same period last year). They received 3.506 million petitions and reports, an increase of 11.5% year on year.

The CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission officially issued a notice announcing that Xia Linmao, member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and deputy mayor of Beijing, is under investigation for suspected serious violations of discipline and law.

The website of the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection published an article on October 22, specifically discussing the issue of retired officials using their networks to seriously violate regulations and accumulate wealth.

On October 22, the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Xia Linmao, member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and executive vice mayor, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation. Xia is an alternate member of the 20th CCP Central Committee, just 4 days before the scheduled opening of the Fifth Plenary Session.

The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection published an article discussing the characterization analysis of retired party members and cadres illegally accepting property, sending the signal that even retirement cannot escape accountability.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, along with the Ministry of Finance, reported on September 11 that Jieshou, Anhui, only repaid 42 million yuan in debt but reported 182 million yuan, falsifying its debt reduction achievements.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, together with the Ministry of Finance, announced on September 11 that Jiujiang in Jiangxi repaid old debts by taking on new ones and counted 1 billion yuan as a debt resolution result.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, together with the Ministry of Finance, announced on September 11 that of the 2.958 billion yuan in debt-resolution funds in Yinchuan, Ningxia, only 1.158 billion yuan was actually used to repay debt, while the remaining 1.8 billion yuan was used for corporate operations, yet all of it was recorded in the debt-resolution system.

A September 11 notice from the National Commission of Supervision and the Ministry of Finance mentioned that during the tenure of Wu Shenghua, former Party Secretary of Bijie, Guizhou, the outstanding debt balance rose instead of falling, with the 2024 debt resolution task completion rate at only 20%, ranking last in the entire province. He once said, "The debts were all incurred by my predecessors — why should I be the one to pay them back?"

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.

On August 22, 2026, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection suddenly convened an extraordinary plenary session, with the communiqué incorporating provisions on leadership transition discipline.

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.

In late August 2026, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held an unprecedented national plenary meeting of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to prepare for the upcoming Fifth Plenary Session, stressing strict political discipline and discipline for the leadership transition, and calling for a comprehensive purge of two-faced people who harbor divided loyalties and say one thing while doing another, as well as a crackdown on political opportunism and factionalism.

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.

Former CSRC Vice Chairman Fang Xinghai has been directly placed under investigation by the CCDI.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.