Institutional documents were issued intensively, three rounds of central inspection were launched, more than 40 "tigers" at provincial and ministerial level and above were tried, and more than 900 people were chased and fled overseas... In 2016, anti-corruption remained one of the hottest topics in China. At the same time as creating an atmosphere of fear of corruption, a series of major deployments and institutional arrangements, such as strict governance of the Party and reform of the supervisory system, began to be implemented in 2016.
The People's Daily Online and the CPC News Network launched a series of plans for the "Anti Corruption Chronicle" to review the achievements in building a clean and honest government and combating corruption in China since 2016. Events are divided into the first and second chapters, and the first is Two documents become powerful tools to fight corruption, and three rounds of patrol are launched to kill the "return shot" , the next is Dozens of provincial and ministerial senior officials have been killed without stop

January 1, 2016

Excerpt from Xi Jinping's Discussion on Strict Discipline and Rules of the Party was published
  
In January 2016, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the CPC Central Literature Research Office edited and published the Excerpt of Xi Jinping's Discussion on Strict Discipline and Rules of the Party. The book includes 200 paragraphs of discussion, which are excerpted from more than 40 important documents such as speeches and articles of Comrade Xi Jinping from November 16, 2012 to October 29, 2015. Many of the discussions were published for the first time. [Details]

January 5, 2016

The Central Committee approved the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to fully cover the discipline inspection agencies dispatched by the Party and state organs at the central level
  
With the consent of the CPC Central Committee, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee issued the Notice on the Comprehensive Implementation of the Plan for the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to Dispatch Discipline Inspection Agencies to Party and State Organs at the Central Level. The Central Committee has decided that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection will set up a total of 47 post offices, including 27 comprehensive post offices and 20 independent post offices, to achieve full coverage of 139 discipline inspection agencies dispatched by the Party and state organs at the central level. [Details]

January 12, 2016

The Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection was held
  
The Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection was held in Beijing from January 12 to 14, 2016. The plenary session summarized the discipline inspection work in 2015, deployed the tasks for 2016, and reviewed and approved the work report made by Comrade Wang Qishan on behalf of the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. [Details]

January 12, 2016

Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the 6th Plenary Session of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
  
In his important speech at the sixth plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Xi Jinping stressed that we should maintain strong political determination, adhere to the principle of comprehensively governing the Party strictly and in accordance with the rules, focus on supervision, discipline enforcement and accountability, deepen the root causes and root causes, innovate systems and mechanisms, improve laws and regulations, strengthen intra party supervision, put discipline ahead, and persevere in implementing the spirit of the eight provisions, We will work hard to solve the problem of unhealthy practices and corruption around the people, resolutely curb the spread of corruption, and constantly make new achievements in building a clean and honest government and fighting corruption. [Details]

January 15, 2016

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection held a press conference for the first time to interpret the spirit of the plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
  
On the morning of the 15th, the Supervision Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection held a press conference for the first time to interpret the spirit of the plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Five leading cadres, including Wu Yuliang, deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Xiao Pei, deputy director of the Ministry of Supervision, Chen Xiaojiang, director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Liu Jianchao, deputy director of the State Bureau for Corruption Prevention, director of the Bureau of International Cooperation of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Luo Dongchuan, director of the Case Trial Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, answered questions from 15 Chinese and foreign journalists in more than an hour, involving more than 20 questions. [Details]

February 16, 2016

The Discipline Inspection Commission of the Central Military Commission has set up a letter, visit and report mailbox
  
With the approval of the leadership of the CMC, the Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Military Commission has opened a special telephone line and a special mailbox for letters, visits and reports, which are mainly used to accept reports and accusations against military units and military management personnel who violate the Party discipline and military discipline, as well as complaints from military members and cadres who refuse to accept the Party discipline and military discipline. This is an important measure taken by the CPC Central Military Commission's Disciplinary Inspection Committee after its adjustment and establishment to open the channels for complaint reporting, give full play to the role of the masses in supervision, and further promote the army's anti-corruption work. [Details]

February 23, 2016

In 2016, the first round of inspection work of the central government was launched. It was the first time that four provinces were killed
  
On the 23rd, the mobilization and deployment meeting of the central inspection work was held, and Wang Qishan attended the meeting and made a speech. In 2016, the first round of inspection by the Central Committee will carry out special inspections on the Party organizations of 32 units, including the Central Propaganda Department and the National Development and Reform Commission, and will also "look back" on four provinces, including Liaoning, Anhui, Shandong and Hunan. It is understood that this is also the first time that the central inspector has killed a unit that has been inspected. [Details]

March 28, 2016

The State Council Holds the Fourth Clean Government Working Conference
  
On March 28, the State Council held the fourth anti-corruption work conference, and Li Keqiang delivered a speech. He stressed that local governments at all levels and various departments of the State Council should conscientiously implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the sixth plenary session of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, implement the deployment of the sixth plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, continue to deepen reform, strictly administer according to law, focus on anti-corruption at the source, and constantly deepen the construction of party conduct and clean government and anti-corruption work in the government system. [Details]

April 14, 2016

Release of standard details of travel and accommodation expenses for central and state organ staff to local places
  
The Ministry of Finance website issued the "Notice on Printing and Distributing the Detailed List of Standards for Travel and Accommodation Expenses of Central and State Organ Staff to Local Areas". According to the content of the notice, the standard of travel and accommodation fees for central and state organ staff to local places has been detailed to local cities, and specific floating standards have been given for peak season time and accommodation prices according to job levels. [Details]

April 18, 2016

The two high officials issued the judicial interpretation of criminal cases of corruption and bribery to clarify the criteria for conviction and sentencing
  
On the 18th, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate jointly issued the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Corruption and Bribery, which clarifies the criteria for conviction and sentencing of corruption and bribery, as well as the applicable principles of death penalty, death sentence with a reprieve and life imprisonment for corruption and bribery, It is emphasized that corruption and bribery crimes should be severely punished according to law. [Details]

April 21, 2016

Launch of "Skynet 2016" action
  
The Central Anti Corruption Coordination Group's International Fugitive and Stolen Goods Recovery Office held a meeting to study and deploy the 2016 anti-corruption international Fugitive and Stolen Goods Recovery Work, and announced the launch of the "Skynet 2016" action. The "Skynet 2016" action consists of several special actions. Among them, the Ministry of Public Security will continue to take the lead in carrying out the "Fox Hunting Operation", the Supreme People's Procuratorate will take the lead in carrying out the special action of international recovery of fugitives and stolen goods from job-related crimes, and the People's Bank of China, together with the Ministry of Public Security, will carry out the special action of cracking down on the use of offshore companies and underground banks to transfer stolen money overseas. [Details]

April 28, 2016

The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection launched the "May Day Dragon Boat Festival" supervision and reporting area
  
As the May Day Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Supervision Department launched the "Special Area for Supervision, Reporting and Exposure of Spiritual Problems Violating the Eight Central Regulations during the May Day Dragon Boat Festival" on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Supervision Department on the 28th to constantly correct the "Four Winds". The special zone has opened the window of "I want to report", and the column of "Weekly Report" in the special zone will, for six consecutive weeks from May 4, report and expose the spiritual problems violating the eight central regulations investigated and dealt with by discipline inspection and supervision authorities at all levels by name and surname. [Details]

May 17, 2016

The inspection team of the Central Military Commission carried out a return visit to seven major units
  
With the approval of the Central Military Commission, recently, the Central Military Commission's patrol team was divided into four groups to carry out a return visit to the leadership and members of the Party committees of the Navy, the Air Force, the Rocket Force, the Academy of Military Sciences, the National Defense University, the National Defense University of Science and Technology and the Armed Police Force. This is the first time that the Central Military Commission has organized a centralized inspection "look back" after it has achieved full coverage of the original four headquarters and large unit party committees and their members. Focus on the supervision and inspection of compliance with political discipline and rules, rectification of prominent problems due to the tendentiousness of feedback, investigation and handling of important problem clues handed over, and implementation of "two responsibilities". [Details]

May 23, 2016

The pilot project was launched in five cities, including Beijing, to standardize the business of senior cadres' families
  
In the afternoon of May 23, Xinjiang held a video conference to mobilize and deploy the work of regulating the behavior of spouses, children and their spouses of leading cadres in business and enterprise management in the autonomous region. So far, Beijing, Guangdong, Chongqing and Xinjiang, as the relevant pilot provinces determined at the 23rd meeting of the Central Deep Restructuring in April this year, have all completed the deployment. Previously, Shanghai has been piloting for one year. [Details]

June 22, 2016

In 2016, the second round of central inspection work was launched
  
On the 22nd, the mobilization and deployment meeting of the central inspection work was held, and Wang Qishan attended the meeting and made a speech. In 2016, the second round of the Central Committee's inspection tour will carry out special inspections on the party organizations of 32 units, including the Party Leadership Group of the organs of the National People's Congress, the Party Leadership Group of the organs of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee, the Department of External Relations of the Central Committee, the Office of the Central Organization Establishment Committee, and the Working Committee of the organs directly under the Central Committee. At the same time, it will carry out a "look back" tour to four provinces and cities, including Tianjin. [Details]

June 28, 2016

Xi Jinping Chairs a Meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to Review the Accountability Regulations of the Communist Party of China
  
The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting on June 28 to review and approve the Regulations on Accountability of the Communist Party of China. Xi Jinping presided over the meeting. The meeting held that the accountability regulations are a powerful tool for comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. The regulations implement the Party Constitution, adhere to the problem orientation, and carry out accountability closely around adhering to the leadership of the Party, strengthening Party building, comprehensively enforcing strict Party governance, maintaining Party discipline, promoting the construction of a clean and honest government and anti-corruption work. [Details]

July 13, 2016

The conference fees of the central and state organs have new regulations on the number of participants and the fee standard
  
In order to further strengthen the connection between conference fee management and relevant expenditure standards, and establish an expenditure standard adjustment mechanism, the newly revised Measures for the Management of Conference Fees of Central and State Organs was issued recently and came into force on July 1, 2016. The classification, examination and approval of meetings of central and state organs and the management of conference fees will be implemented in accordance with this management method. The management measures clearly stipulate the number of participants, duration and accommodation standards of various meetings. [Details]

July 17, 2016

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the Regulations on Accountability of the Communist Party of China
  
Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the Regulations on Accountability of the Communist Party of China. This is another institutional innovation for the CPC Central Committee to comprehensively and strictly govern the party after the Code of Integrity and Self discipline of the Communist Party of China and the Regulations on Disciplinary Punishment of the Communist Party of China, which fully demonstrates the distinctive character of Chinese Communists who dare to take on responsibilities, and also provides an important guarantee for serious political life within the party and purifying the political ecology within the party. [Details]

July 26, 2016

The Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, together with the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, launched a new round of patrol inspection on the changing atmosphere
  
In order to strive to create a clean atmosphere and ensure the orderly, healthy and stable transition of the local leadership, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, together with the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, recently sent a new atmosphere patrol inspection team to 12 provinces (regions) including Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian, Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Tibet and Xinjiang Supervise with Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and carry out a new atmosphere supervision on the selection and employment of personnel in Tianjin, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei and other four provinces (cities) in combination with the special inspection of "looking back" during the tour. [Details]

August 29, 2016

The Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China printed and distributed the Opinions to prevent cadres from "promotion with illness"
  
Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China printed and distributed the Opinions on Preventing Cadres from "Promotion with Illness" (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions), and issued a notice requiring all regions and departments to conscientiously implement the Opinions in light of actual conditions. The notice stressed that Party committees (Party leading groups) at all levels should take the prevention of cadres' "promotion due to illness" as an important part of overall strict governance of the Party and strict management of cadres, and reflect the whole process of cadre selection and appointment, strictly perform the main responsibility, adhere to principles, and dare to be responsible. [Details]

September 8, 2016

The website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China publicized the special area to investigate the spiritual problems of violating the eight provisions of the Mid Autumn Festival National Day
  
As the National Day of the Mid Autumn Festival approaches, in order to focus on the important time nodes, constantly correct the "four winds", and strictly prevent the rebound, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Supervision Department launched the "Special Area for Supervision, Reporting and Exposure of Spiritual Problems Violating the Eight Central Regulations" on September 8 on its website. A window of "I want to report" has been opened in the special zone, and netizens are welcome to supervise and report on such irregularities as going in and out of secret places, organizing secret parties, eating and drinking with public funds, traveling, and receiving and delivering festival gifts through websites, clients, and WeChat public accounts during the festival. [Details]

October 17, 2016

8 episodes of the large-scale TV feature film "Always on the Road" by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has aroused strong response
  
On October 17, the first episode of the eight episode TV feature film "Always on the Road", the first episode of "Heartbeat", jointly produced by the Propaganda Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and CCTV, was broadcast in prime time on CCTV's comprehensive channel. In the film, Zhou Benshun, Bai Enpei, Li Chuncheng and other parties to the case present themselves, interspersed with the narrations and analyses of case handlers, experts and scholars, and many details of the case were made public for the first time, which attracted wide attention and aroused strong repercussions. [Details]

October 24, 2016

The Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing to study comprehensively and strictly governing the Party
  
The Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing from October 24 to 27, 2016. The plenary session heard and discussed Xi Jinping's work report commissioned by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, deliberated and passed the Several Guidelines for Inner Party Political Life in the New Situation and the Regulations of the Communist Party of China on Inner Party Supervision, and deliberated and passed the Resolution on Convening the 19th National Congress of the Party. Xi Jinping explained the Guidelines (Discussion Draft) and Regulations (Discussion Draft) to the plenary session. [Details]

November 2, 2016

The Regulations of the Communist Party of China on Inner Party Supervision were released to the whole society
  
Recently, the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee deliberated and passed the newly revised Regulations of the CPC on Inner Party Supervision (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations) and announced it to the whole society. The promulgation of the Regulations stipulates the guiding ideology, basic principles, supervision subjects, supervision contents, supervision objects, supervision methods and other important issues of inner-party supervision, which provides a fundamental basis for strengthening inner-party supervision in the new situation. [Details]

November 2, 2016

The central government launched the third round of inspection tour in 2016, "looking back" in Beijing, Chongqing and other four places
  
Wang Qishan attended the mobilization and deployment meeting of the 11th round of the 18th Central Committee's patrol work on the 2nd. The meeting conveyed the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on patrol work. Wang Qishan stressed that it is necessary to strengthen the supervision and inspection of the implementation of the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, and deepen political inspection around adhering to the leadership of the Party and comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. With the approval of the central government, the eleventh round of the central inspection will carry out special inspections on 27 party organizations, including the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and will also "look back" on four provinces, autonomous regions and cities, including Beijing, Chongqing, Guangxi, and Gansu. [Details]

November 6, 2016

The Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, together with the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, organized the second batch of supervision and inspection on the changing atmosphere
  
In order to ensure that the new round of the new term of office is clean from beginning to end and promote the formation of a good political ecology, the Organization Department of the Central Committee, together with the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, recently sent a tour inspection team to inspect the new term of office in 12 provinces (districts and cities), including Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Shanghai, and in combination with the tour, "look back" to inspect the new term of office in two cities and one province, including Beijing, Chongqing, and Gansu. [Details]

November 7, 2016

The Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China printed and distributed the Pilot Plan for National Supervision System Reform in Beijing, Shanxi Province and Zhejiang Province
  
Recently, the Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the Pilot Plan for the Reform of the National Supervision System in Beijing, Shanxi Province and Zhejiang Province, which deployed the establishment of supervision committees at all levels in three provinces and cities to take the lead in the construction of systems, mechanisms and systems, explore and practice, and accumulate experience for the nationwide promotion. The Plan emphasizes that the reform of the national supervision system is a major political reform that concerns the overall situation and is the top-level design of the national supervision system. We will implement organizational and institutional innovation, achieve comprehensive coverage of public officials exercising public power, and establish a centralized, unified, authoritative and efficient supervision system. [Details]

December 13, 2016

The Excerpt of Xi Jinping's Discussion on Fully Strict Governance of the Party was published
  
The excerpt of Xi Jinping's Discussion on Managing the Party Strictly in an All round Way, edited by the Literature Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, was recently published by the Central Literature Publishing House and distributed nationwide. There are 371 paragraphs in the book, which are excerpted from more than 80 important documents such as speeches and articles of Comrade Xi Jinping from November 15, 2012 to October 27, 2016. Many of them were published for the first time. [Details]

December 21, 2016

The website of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China publicizes the special zone's strict investigation of the spiritual problems of violating the eight regulations on New Year's Day and the Spring Festival
  
As the New Year's Day and the Spring Festival are approaching, in order to focus on the important time nodes and constantly correct the "four styles", on December 21, the website of the Supervision Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection launched the "Special Area for Supervision and Disclosure of Spiritual Problems Violating the Eight Central Regulations during the New Year's Day and the Spring Festival". The special zone has opened a window of "I want to report", which welcomes netizens to supervise and report through websites, clients and WeChat public accounts. [Details]

December 25, 2016

The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed the decision to carry out the pilot reform of the supervisory system in Beijing, Shanxi and Zhejiang
  
According to the Plan on Carrying out the Pilot Reform of the National Supervisory System in Beijing, Shanxi Province and Zhejiang Province determined by the CPC Central Committee, and in order to accumulate experience in promoting the exploration of the reform of the national supervisory system throughout the country, the 25th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress decided to carry out the pilot reform of the national supervisory system in Beijing, Shanxi Province and Zhejiang Province. [Details]

December 26, 2016

The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting on democratic life to study measures to strengthen intra party political life and supervision
  
The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a democratic life meeting from December 26 to 27, focusing on the self-examination Analyze the Party spirit, carry out criticism and self-criticism, and study measures to strengthen the political life and supervision within the Party. [Details]

December 28, 2016

The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to study and deploy the work of building a clean and honest government and anti-corruption
  
The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting on December 28 to hear the work report of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in 2016, and to study and deploy the work of building a clean and honest government and anti-corruption in 2017. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting. The meeting agreed to hold the seventh plenary meeting of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection from January 6 to 8 next year. [Details]