![]() China begins implementing relaxed anti-COVID-19 measuresĪ former justice minister and a former deputy public security minister received suspended death sentences last month after being convicted on various charges of bribe-taking and other abuses of office.Ĭhinese courts are beholden to the party and have a near 100% conviction rate.'Maji ya China' fixing sewerage mess in Narok.Chinese city plans 250,000 quarantine beds to fight virus.Afraid of needles? China rolling out oral COVID-19 vaccine.“The spread of graft has been resolutely contained,” Xiao said, adding that “directed policies and high pressure” had persuaded 80,000 party members to voluntarily admit to violations over the past five years. ![]() Xiao said most of those caught by anti-graft investigators were long-term offenders and just 11% of those punished had committed their first offense in the past five years. Now seeking a third term as head of the party, government and military, Xi has made fighting corruption a hallmark of his administration. The party has 96 million members and has long run its own internal system of keeping cadres in line through a mix of offering privileges and threatening severe punishment for taking bribes, selling offices or otherwise abusing authority.Īt a briefing Monday on the sidelines of the party’s national congress held every five years, the deputy secretary of the party’s Committee for Discipline and Inspection, Xiao Pei, said 207,000 party officials in total had been handed some form of punishment in the 10 years since party leader Xi Jinping took power.
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