New PBSC member Li Xi chaired his first meeting as CDIC chief on October 26. Li Xi
emphasised at the first meeting of the Standing Committee of the 20th Central Discipline
Inspection Commission and the meeting of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission and
the State Supervision Commission the need to convey and study the spirit of the 20th Party
Congress. Liu Jinguo, Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Deputy
Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, attended the meeting.
ii) The authorised version of the CDIC Work Report was released on October 27. It disclosed,
inter alia, that: "Over the past five years, a total of 39,000 party organisations have been held
accountable across the country, and 299,000 party members, leading cadres and supervised
objects have been held accountable". It said that after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CDIC "did not hold back and did not stop, especially after the
19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, they still did not stop and dared to
act". It stated that "there are no unfettered special party members in the party, and there is no
"iron hat king" on the issue of corruption" and all violations, new types of corruption and
hidden corruption such as "shadow companies" and "shadow shareholders" will be punished. It
also said that "In the past five years, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the
State Supervision Commission have placed 261 cadres under investigation. A total of 3.066
million cases were filed by the national discipline inspection and supervision organs, and 2.992
million people were punished; inspired by high pressure and policy, 81,000 people voluntarily
surrendered to the discipline inspection and supervision organs, and since 2020, 216,000 people
have taken the initiative to explain the problem"
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