China's anti-corruption drive will neither cease nor decelerate in the new year, the top anti-corruption body announced on the first working day after the Chinese New Year holiday.
Vice Minister of State Security Ma Jian was disqualified Wednesday as a member of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
Disciplinary watchdog received fewer public tip-offs against corrupt officials during this year's Spring Festival holiday compared with the last year.
China's top disciplinary body has pledged to persist with its iron-handed crackdown against corruption and other misconduct.
More than three-quarters of the people believe crackdown is effective, think tank survey shows
The Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) has vowed to improve the national online database of people convicted of bribery to better combat corruption.
Chinese prosecutors investigated 24 provincial, ministerial or higher level officials in the first 11 months of 2014, an official with the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said Thursday.
Xu Aimin, a senior political advisor in east China's Jiangxi Province, was expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) for "serious breaches of political rules and Party discipline", said the CPC's discipline agency on Tuesday.