China's ruling Communist Party of China (CCP) punished more than 110,000 officials in an anti-corruption drive, the Indo-Pacific Centre for Strategic Communications (IPCSC) said in a report. China's president Xi Jinping launched the anti-corruption campaign under which officials have been publicly investigated. These include state-level officials, deputy state-level officers, military commission members, dozens of ministerial-level officers, and hundreds of deputy ministerial-level officers, the report said. The report claimed, “111,000 people were fined in the first quarter of this year, including provincial and provincial-level cadres, 633 department-level cadres, 669 district-level cadres, and 1,000 townships. Data from the March anti-corruption report said that 7,021 violations were investigated and dealt with.

Source: Hindustan Times May 12, 2023 11:54 UTC