China’s Anti-Corruption Cadres Sacked in Anti-Corruption Campaign

Anti-corruption investigators in the central Chinese province of Shanxi have unveiled their latest target: anti-corruption investigators.

Delegates vote during the election of the new chairman of China during the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 14, 2013. Party investigators in Shanxi Province have recently conducted a purge. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

Anti-corruption investigators in the central Chinese province of Shanxi have unveiled their latest target: anti-corruption investigators.

A total of 106 cadres in the Shanxi Commission for Discipline Inspection, the provincial anti-corruption instrument, were punished in what state-media called “self-surgery,” from December last year to March this year.

The announcement comes after a series of purges in Shanxi related to control of the coal industry, and the brother of the former top level Party official Ling Jihua.

China News, a state-run outlet, wrote, “In 2014, systemic, landslide-style corruption was found in Shanxi.” Top officials that were removed in the purge of the Shanxi disciplinary apparatus include its secretary, deputy secretary, a member of the standing committee, and its deputy director.

Shanxi is conducting a sweeping anti-corruption drive with historical significance, which is necessary and regarded as a matter of life and death for the Party and nation.

— Ma Kai, Chinese vice premier