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<p>Source: Reuters (10/8/17)<br />
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-corruption/chinese-watchdog-says-1-34-million-officials-punished-for-graft-since-2013-idUSKBN1CD04B">Chinese watchdog says 1.34 million officials punished for graft since 2013</a><br />
By Reuters Staff</p>
<p>BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s anti-graft watchdog said roughly 1.34 million lower-ranking officials have been punished since 2013 under President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive.</p>
<p data-reactid="40">Xi, who is preparing for a major Communist Party leadership conference later this month, has made an anti-graft campaign targeting “tigers and flies”, both high and low ranking officials, a core policy priority during his five-year term.</p>
<p data-reactid="41">China is preparing for the 19th Congress later this month, a twice-a-decade leadership event where Xi is expected to consolidate power and promote his policy positions.</p>
<p data-reactid="42">Those punished for graft since 2013 include 648,000 village-level officials and most crimes were related to small scale corruption, said the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on Sunday.</p>
<p data-reactid="43">While much of the country’s anti-graft drive has targeted lower ranking village and county officials, several high-ranking figures have been taken down.</p>
<p data-reactid="44">In August the head of the anti-graft committee for China’s Ministry of Finance was himself put under investigation for suspected graft.</p>
<p data-reactid="45">In September a senior military officer who sits on China’s powerful Central Military Commission, overseen by Xi, was detained and questioned over corruption-related offenses, Reuters reported.</p>
<p data-reactid="46">The CCDI said 155,000 country-level party bureaux have set up corruption policing mechanisms as of August, representing 94.8 percent of total bureaus.</p>
<p>Reporting by Cate Cadell; Editing by Michael Perry</p>
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