China files more than 4,000 disciplinary cases against officials in 2024

By Reuters January 9, 2025 | 09:59 pm PT

The headquarters of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China is pictured in Beijing, China, Feb. 10, 2018. Photo by Reuters

China's top anti-graft watchdog said on Friday that it had filed more than 4,000 disciplinary cases against officials in 2024, as it attempts to tackle a long-running corruption problem.

Corruption is the biggest threat to China's Communist Party and is on the rise, President Xi Jinping said on Monday at the start of a three-day congress of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).

China was rocked last year by high-profile corruption probes that included a deputy central bank governor and a former chairman of its biggest oil and gas company.

The CCDI filed cases against 73 provincial and ministerial-level officials and 4,348 department- and bureau-level officials in 2024, it said in a statement.

A total of 889,000 people were punished, including 680,000 for not adhering to Communist Party discipline and 270,000 for what it said were "administrative sanctions".