China’s ruling party says almost 300,000 punished for corruption last year

[yuiyoshida]

BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party says it punished nearly 300,000 officials for corruption last year.

The party’s official watchdog body said Sunday that 200,000 were given light punishments and 82,000 handed severe penalties, including demotions within the bureaucracy.

The body known as the Central Committee for Discipline Inspection rarely explains its methodology or what evidence it considers, and no other details were given in the brief statement posted on its website.

President Xi Jinping has pressed a massive nationwide probe of corruption among officials of all ranks, including those in the party, government, military and state-run industries.

https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/03/chinas-ruling-party-says-almost-300000-punished-for-corruption-last-year/

[metroins]

1. 300,000

That's a lot of government officials.

[DetlefK]

2. I guess, his own network of corrupt lackeys is off-limits to these investigations.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31478-china-s-communist-capitalist-ecological-apocalypse

Xi Jinping is merely getting rid of competitors.