The Communist Party of China's discipline watchdog will target more corrupt low-level officials in 2015, according to an article published on Sunday.
Another senior Chinese military officer has been detained on suspicion of corruption as China continues a sweeping campaign to stamp out graft in the armed forces.
The statement details how officials from six provinces took advantage of their positions to interfere with environmental impact assessment.
Du Shanxue, former vice governor of north China's coal-rich Shanxi province, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) for bribery, adultery and abuse of power, announced the CPC's anti-graft watchdog on Friday.
A former senior official who was recently investigated for corruption was found to have purchased 42 houses for family members in the Shenzhen special economic zone, according to an official from the Guangdong provincial Party Commission of Discipline Inspection.
The first round of the effort will focus on 26 large SOEs, including some of the nation's largest and most high-profile energy corporations.
China's top procuratorate has announced that 67 people working in the science sector have been investigated for bribes and embezzlement of science funds over two years ending in December 2014.
The former manager of a private insurance firm in east China's Shanghai on Wednesday was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve after being found guilty of fraud.
Sixty-one ministerial-level officials in 26 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions have been reassigned to new government posts to fill gaps left by predecessors who are under investigation for corruption.
Thirty-six policemen have been disciplined for dereliction of duty following the crackdown last year on prostitution in Dongguan-dubbed "Sin City"-in South China's Guangdong province.
China's venerable strategists may find their mantle inherited by the Central Committee of Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the Party’s disciplinary watchdog.
The Communist Party of China's (CPC) counter-corruption agency has vowed zero tolerance for anyone within its ranks who abuse their power, release classified information or seek profits.