The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Communist Party’s top anti-corruption body, said 3,900 of its own officials had been placed under investigation in 2024 on suspicion of wrongdoing, compared with 7,817 the previous year.
Of those, 374 were sent to trial, compared with 474 for 2023.
Meanwhile, the country’s anti-corruption campaign snared a record number of senior officials, with 58 “tigers” – officials of vice-ministerial rank and above – being placed under investigation.
Li, 60 was detained at the end September for “suspected serious violations of discipline and law” – a common euphemism for corruption.
Long Fei, the disciplinary chief of state-owned China Southern Power Grid, was placed under investigation in February and expelled from the party in August over similar charges.
