China's leading security body has made public 10 cases of police officers, prosecutors or judges being punished for transgressions ranging from bribe-taking and drunken driving to homicide, as part of an intensified effort to fight corruption and improve work style.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday pledged to combat corruption, boost government transparency and build a clean government. Li made the remarks as he presided over a meeting of the State Council, China's cabinet, which mapped out this year's anti-graft plans.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has urged strict budget management of all government income and payment records while calling on auditors to thoroughly probe violations.
An official with the Henan branch of China Grain Reserves Corp has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison and fined 60,000 yuan ($9,900) for dividing State assets of more than 430,000 yuan among employees without permission.
Civil servants in Jiangsu province will have to answer a series of sensitive questions in a bid to root out those that might fall prey to corruption.
A former official in Henan province has been sentenced to life imprisonment for taking bribes, owning a huge amount of property from unidentified sources.
Four discipline officials have received punishments ranging from dismissal to criminal prosecution for breaking laws and Party anti-corruption guidelines.
Ji Jianye, former mayor of Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, is being investigated by prosecutors, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
China's top anti-graft agency has pledged to punish both corrupt officials and their leaders who failed to supervise them effectively.
Ji Jianye is kicked out of the Communist Party for using his post to amass huge wealth and is labeled "morally corrupt."
A former official in Beijing has been sentenced to death with two year's probation for corruption and bribery, Mirror Evening News reported on Wednesday.
A senior official with the Communist Party of China (CPC) has pledged to deepen reform of the Party's discipline supervision system, according to a statement.