A senior official from the Guangzhou Party Commission of Discipline Inspection has promised to expand investigations and punishment of officials who accept bribes or bribe their leadership during the coming mid-autumn festival.
A former mayor of Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is being investigated for serious discipline and law violations, local authorities have said.
The country's largest oil and gas producer is to start an internal inspection on embezzlement of earnings after it was exposed for corruption in an earlier audit.
Officials being considered for promotion are required to publicize their private assets in an effort to boost clean governance.
China's central authorities are requiring all government departments and localities to check for construction of extravagant, landmark buildings.
Shen Peiping, former vice governor of southwest China's Yunnan province, was expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and dismissed from public office for graft probe.
Excessive corruption in real estate was found during routine inspections of official conduct nationwide, China Economic Weekly reported on Tuesday.
Chen Tiexin, a senior political advisor of northeast China's Liaoning Province, has been removed from his post for suspected serious discipline and law violations.
Tan Li, vice governor of south China's island province of Hainan, was removed from his post Wednesday, according to local government.
Five Chinese officials have been prosecuted or probed for bribe-taking, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said in a statement on Wednesday.
The disciplinary watchdog of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Tuesday announced the expulsion of six officials from the Party and public office for "serious violations of discipline and law."
Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, was last seen in public at the 60th anniversary of his alma mater, China University of Petroleum, on Oct 1, 2013.