Watchdogs taking down black sheep

Intensified efforts show disciplinary bodies are dedicated to self-reform

Discipline inspection and supervision departments have intensified self-reform efforts to weed out black sheep and guarantee full and strict governance over the Party, with 2,482 of their officials investigated in the first half of this year, the departments said.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China and the National Commission of Supervision, China's top anti-graft bodies, released statistics regarding the inspection and investigation of officials from the departments from January to June to promote the full and strict governance of the Party.

Some 1,647 officials from the discipline inspection and supervision departments were punished, and 73 were transferred to judicial organs for further investigation. Among them, 54 were at the departmental level and 285 were at the county or division level.