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China anti-corruption campaign targets officials in regional posts and retirement
An analysis by South China Morning Post says 60.0% of the most senior officials targeted between 2013 and 2025 held roles in regional government rather than Beijing.
The South China Morning Post has launched a data project examining President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, focusing on how enforcement has reached beyond China’s capital and into officials’ post retirement years, according to a second part of its series.
Writer William Zheng describes how officials used to see assignments outside Beijing as a path to greater influence in local affairs, but the campaign has since pursued corrupt officials in those regional roles.
According to the outlet’s tally of publicly known officials targeted by the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, among the most senior tier targeted between 2013 and 2025, 60.0% were taken down while working in regional government positions.
The report says most of the targeted officials were drawn from a category of centrally managed cadres, typically holding ranks at the deputy ministerial level or above, with a smaller group in slightly lower ranks but sensitive roles in important sectors.