China will establish a new anti-graft body to further tighten pressure on corrupt officials, said deputy Procurator-General Qiu Xueqiang.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for serious reflection on the discipline and law violations by former Central Military Commission (CMC) Vice Chairman Xu Caihou.
China prosecuted 21,652 officials accused of bribery in the first nine months of the year, with 13,414 of those cases resulting in convictions, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) revealed Friday.
China will upgrade anti-corruption legislation as it continues a campaign to build a clean government and practice austerity.
Chen Tiexin, currently detained by China's top procuratorate, is the first ministerial level official in Liaoning to be investigated since the nationwide antigraft campaign began in late 2012.
A draft amendment to modify the criteria for imposing penalties on criminals found guilty of corruption and bribes came at the right time.
More than 2,600 officials were punished in September for violating the principles of the Communist Party of China, the country's top anti-graft watchdog said on Tuesday.
Xu Caihou, former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, has confessed to taking bribes, said military prosecutors here Tuesday.
Chen Tiexin, a senior political advisor in Northeast China's Liaoning province, was expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and dismissed from public office for graft, according to the Party discipline inspection agency on Tuesday.
Ni Fake has been indicted for taking bribes and holding unidentified property which obviously exceed his income, according to prosecutors.
China is to introduce a results-based management system to ensure efficiency in military spending.
The chief discipline inspector of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said no inner-Party cliques are allowed, and all members must abide by Party rules.