China’s top anti-corruption bodies announced investigations into nine officials across the country on April 9, marking the latest sign of an intensifying crackdown that is reaching deep into local governments, state-owned enterprises, and the Chinese Communist Party’s system.
The officials—spanning provinces including Anhui, Guangdong, Hubei, Xinjiang, Shandong, Liaoning, and Sichuan—were accused of “serious violations of discipline and law,” a standard phrase used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to denote corruption-related offenses.
