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1.2m punished since 2012 launch of anti-graft fight

Source: Xinhua | January 10, 2017, Tuesday | Print Edition

A senior anti-graft official said yesterday that 240 centrally administered officials had been investigated since November 2012, with 223 receiving punishments.

Wu Yuliang, deputy secretary of the Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, told a press conference that over four years more than 1.16 million corruption cases were filed and nearly 1.2 million people punished for violating Party and government rules.

Wu said 2,566 fugitives had been extradited or repatriated since 2014, with assets worth about 8.6 billion yuan (US$1.3 billion) recovered.

During the past year, 57,000 Party members had confessed to wrongdoings, said Xiao Pei, vice minister of supervision.

Luo Dongchuan, a senior official with the commission, said that the fight against corruption would not weaken and zero-tolerance would not change. “We should keep the crushing momentum against corruption,” Luo said.

Xiao said history proved that the Party has a strong self-correcting capacity. It never conceals its faults and is able to discover and correct its mistakes in time, he added.

Wu revealed that the National People’s Congress Standing Committee is to formulate a supervision law, in essence pushing forward national legislation on anti-corruption.

China’s anti-corruption campaign shifted up a gear following the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012.

A survey by the National Bureau of Statistics revealed that about 93 percent of those surveyed were satisfied with anti-graft efforts and the work on clean governance last year, compared with 75 percent recorded before the 2012 meeting. Wu said that showed the firm stance on strict governance of the Party conforms with the public will.

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