Thousands of officials punished

Both 'tigers' and 'flies' targeted as nation's anti-corruption campaign bites hard

Disciplinary supervision authorities punished 182,038 corrupt officials last year, an increase of 13.3 percent from 2012, the country's top anti-graft agency said on Friday.

The authorities received more than 1.95 million tips from whistle-blowers and investigated 172,532 corruption cases in 2013, said Huang Shuxian, deputy secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.