BEIJING: The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee convened a meeting on Thursday to discuss and plan the Party’s efforts to improve conduct, build integrity, and combat corruption for the year 2026, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting.
In 2025, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Xi at its core, discipline inspection and supervision authorities at all levels intensified their efforts to improve conduct, build integrity, and combat corruption, maintaining a tough stance against corruption, said the meeting, noting that new progress and results had been achieved, according to Xinhua.
The meeting said discipline inspection and supervision bodies in 2026 must advance full and rigorous Party self-governance with higher standards and more effective measures, to provide a strong guarantee for the economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030).
Prior to the meeting, Xi presided over a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, where reports were heard on the work of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision for 2025, as well as preparations for the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
The session is scheduled for January 12 to 14, 2026.
The Thursday meeting underscores the CPC leadership’s unwavering determination to press ahead with the anti-corruption campaign. As the fight against corruption in the new era remains complex and challenging, the continued crackdown on corruption sends a clear message that the high-pressure anti-corruption approach will remain firmly in place, said some experts reached by the Global Times on Thursday.
According to data from the website of China’s top anti-graft body, in the first half of 2025, discipline inspection and supervisory bodies across China imposed disciplinary or administrative penalties on 420,000 individuals, including 313,000 Party disciplinary sanctions and 136,000 administrative punishments.
Those sanctioned included 30 provincial- and ministerial-level officials and 1,876 officials at the department or bureau level, per the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision. –The Daily Mail-Global Times news exchange item
