China’s top anti-graft agency has vowed to double down on its efforts to battle corruption as it mapped out its focus in areas such as finance, state-owned enterprises, and energy and renewed its pledge to go after bribe payers in the new year.
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A communique released on Wednesday by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said 2025 – the final year of the 14th Five-Year plan – would see accelerated efforts to enforce discipline and combat corruption within the Communist Party.
The five-year plan, approved in 2021, sets out China’s main economic and political goals for the period.
The communique said the anti-corruption agency would strengthen supervision and focus on violations of discipline and issues that have a significant impact on the market order.
“We must continue to punish corruption and strictly investigate corruption cases that are intertwined with political and economic issues,” it said, adding that it would focus on areas such as finance, state-owned enterprises, energy, firefighting, tobacco, medicine, universities, sports, development zones, engineering construction and bidding.
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The agency must also “seriously investigate and punish the abuse of power, neglect of duty, and violations in decision-making resulting in major losses to state-owned assets”, according to the document.