BEIJING: China’s anti-corruption efforts achieved a new level of accomplishment in 2025. Data from the country’s top anti-graft bodies revealed an unprecedentedly intensive year, marked not only by a record number of high-level investigations, but also by a fundamental strategic shift toward what experts call the “deep-water stage” of governance.
Official disclosures from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China and the National Commission of Supervision showed that 65 centrally managed officials — senior figures under the management of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee — were placed under disciplinary review and supervisory investigation in 2025.
Among them were eight ministerial-level officials, including high-profile names such as Jiang Chaoliang, former vice-chairperson of the National People’s Congress Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, Jin Xiangjun, former governor of Shanxi province, and Yi Huiman, former chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
Yi was placed under investigation for suspected serious violations of Communist Party discipline and national laws in September, while Jiang and Jin were expelled from the CPC and dismissed from public office in October.
Additionally, 53 previously investigated centrally managed officials received disciplinary and administrative sanctions in 2025, effectively concluding a year of rigorous accountability.
A meeting on Dec 25 of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee fully affirmed the 2025 achievements in disciplinary inspection and supervision. It noted that the CCDI, NCS and local disciplinary authorities had steadily advanced clean government construction, maintained a high-pressure anti-corruption stance, deepened the simultaneous investigation and rectification of unhealthy Party conducts and corruption, and made new progress in promoting high-quality disciplinary inspection work.
Experts emphasized that these landmark figures send an unequivocal message: No official, regardless of rank, is above the law in China’s anti-graft fight. They signaled that China’s anti-corruption drive has entered a critical deep-water phase focused on enhancing governance efficiency.
Liu Yi, an associate professor of the University of International Business and Economics’ School of Marxism in Beijing, said the record-high number of investigations reflected the CPC Central Committee’s assessment that the anti-corruption situation remains “grave and complex”. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
