Officials implicated by the anti-corruption campaign in China (2012–2017)
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Over one hundred officials of provincial-ministerial level and above have been implicated by the anti-corruption campaign in China, which began after the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012. The number of officials implicated below the provincial level are much higher. The tables on this list includes only officials for which a case has been initiated by the
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) is the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), tasked with enforcing internal rules and regulations and combating corruption and malfeasance in the pa ...
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National leaders


Former and sitting Central Committee members


Provincial-ministerial level


Generals of the military

* Cai Guangliao, major general, deputy director of the Social and Legislative Committee of the Guangdong People's Political Consultative Conference * Chen Qiang, major general, Deputy Commander of 96351 Unit of the
Second Artillery Corps The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF; ), formerly the Second Artillery Corps (), is the strategic and tactical missile force of the People's Republic of China. The PLARF is the 4th branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and c ...
* Dai Weimin, major general, Deputy Dean at the People's Liberation Army Nanjing Political College * Deng Ruihua, major general, Political Commissar of the Joint Logistics Department of
Lanzhou Military Region The Lanzhou Military Region was one of seven military regions in the People's Republic of China. It directed all People's Liberation Army and People's Armed Police forces in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, and Ngari Prefectu ...
* Dong Mingxiang, major general, Head of the Joint Logistics Department of
Beijing Military Region The Beijing Military Region was one of seven military regions for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. From the mid 1980s to 2017, it had administration of all military affairs within Beijing city, Tianjin city, Hebei province, Shanxi province, ...
* Duan Tianjie, major general, deputy director of the Political Department of PLA National Defence University *
Fan Changmi Fan Changmi (; born June 1955) is a former lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army of China. In December 2014, he was under investigation by the PLA's anti-corruption agency. He served as Deputy Political Commissar of the Lanzhou Milit ...
, lieutenant general, alternate Central Committee member, Deputy Political Commissar of
Lanzhou Military Region The Lanzhou Military Region was one of seven military regions in the People's Republic of China. It directed all People's Liberation Army and People's Armed Police forces in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, and Ngari Prefectu ...
* Fang Wenping, major general, Commander of Shanxi Military District * Fu Linguo, major general, Deputy Chief of Staff of Command of the
People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department (GLD; ) is a former chief organ under China's Central Military Commission. It organizes and leads the logistics construction and oversees housing, supplies, hospitals, and barracks of the People ...
* Fu Yi, major general, Commander of Zhejiang Military Command * Gao Xiaoyan (female), major general, Political Commissar and Discipline Inspection Secretary of the
PLA Information Engineering University The People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force Information Engineering University (IEU; ) is a Chinese military university in Zhengzhou, Henan, affiliated with the People's Liberation Army. It was established in 1999. Before that, it was ...
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Gu Junshan Gu Junshan (; born October 1956) is a former lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China who was sentenced to prison for corruption. He served as the Deputy Director of the PLA General Logistics Department (GLD) from Decem ...
, lieutenant general, former deputy director of the People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department *
Guo Boxiong Guo Boxiong (born July 1942) is a former general of the People's Liberation Army of China. He served as the Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, China's top military council, between 2002 and 2012. During the same period he also h ...
, general, former Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, member of the 17th Politburo * Guo Zhenggang, major general, Deputy Political Commissar of Zhejiang Military District, son of Guo Boxiong * Jiang Zhonghua, rear admiral, Head of the armament department of the
South Sea Fleet The Southern Theater Command Navy (), or the South Sea Fleet (SSF; ) is one of the three fleets of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy, operating in the South China Sea under the Southern Theater Command. It is headquartered in Zhanjiang, ...
, committed suicide * Kou Tie, major general, Commander of Heilongjiang Military District * Liu Zhanqi, major general of the Armed Police, Chief of the People's Armed Police traffic command * Liu Zheng, lieutenant general, Deputy Head of the
People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department (GLD; ) is a former chief organ under China's Central Military Commission. It organizes and leads the logistics construction and oversees housing, supplies, hospitals, and barracks of the People ...
* Ma Faxiang, vice admiral, Deputy Political Commissar of the
People's Liberation Army Navy The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN; ), also known as the People's Navy, Chinese Navy, or PLA Navy, is the maritime service branch of the People's Liberation Army. The PLAN traces its lineage to naval units fighting during the Chines ...
, committed suicide *
Wang Minggui Wang Minggui (; born 1954) is a general in the People's Liberation Army of China. A native of Shangqiu Shangqiu (), alternately romanized as Shangkiu, is a city in eastern Henan province, Central China. It borders Kaifeng to the northwest, ...
, major general, Political Commissar of People's Liberation Army Air Force Command College * Wang Yufa, lieutenant general, former Deputy political commissar of the Guangzhou Military Region * Wei Jin, major general, Deputy Political Commissar of Tibet Military District *
Xu Caihou Xu Caihou (; June 1943 – March 15, 2015) was a Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the country's top military council. As Vice-chairman of the CMC, he was one of th ...
, general, former Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, member of the 17th Politburo * Yang Jinshan, lieutenant general, member of the Central Committee, Deputy Commander of Chengdu Military Region * Ye Wanyong, major general, Political Commissar of Sichuan Military District * Yu Daqing, lieutenant general, Deputy Political Commissar of the
Second Artillery Corps The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF; ), formerly the Second Artillery Corps (), is the strategic and tactical missile force of the People's Republic of China. The PLARF is the 4th branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and c ...
* Zhan Guoqiao, major general, Head of the Joint Logistics Department of
Lanzhou Military Region The Lanzhou Military Region was one of seven military regions in the People's Republic of China. It directed all People's Liberation Army and People's Armed Police forces in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, and Ngari Prefectu ...
* Zhan Jun, major general, Deputy Commander of Hubei Military District * Zhang Daixin, major general, Deputy Commander of Heilongjiang Military District * Zhang Qibin, major general, Deputy Chief of Staff of the
Jinan Military Region The Jinan Military Region was a PLA Military Region located in the east of the People's Republic of China, covering the Shandong and Henan Provinces, which also formed military districts. It appears that Yang Dezhi was one of the first commander ...
* Zhang Wansong, major general, Director of the Joint Logistics Department of Lanzhou Military Region * Zhou Guotai, major general, Deputy Head of Oil Supplies Division of PLA General Logistics Department * Zhou Minggui, major general, deputy director of the Political Department of Nanjing Military Region


Other notable cases

* Adil Nurmemet, mayor of
Hotan Hotan (also known as Gosthana, Gaustana, Godana, Godaniya, Khotan, Hetian, Hotien) is a major oasis town in southwestern Xinjiang, an autonomous region in Western China. The city proper of Hotan broke off from the larger Hotan County to become ...
, ethnic Uyghur *
Feng Lixiang Feng Lixiang (; born August 1957) is a Chinese politician from Shanxi who served as the Communist Party Secretary of Datong from 2008 to 2014. In 2014, he was investigated for corruption, expelled from the Communist Party, and indicted on bribery ...
, party chief of
Datong Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China. It is located in the Datong Basin at an elevation of and borders Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Hebei to the east. As of the 2020 ce ...
* Guo Yipin, vice-mayor of
Luoyang Luoyang is a city located in the confluence area of Luo River and Yellow River in the west of Henan province. Governed as a prefecture-level city, it borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the east, Pingdingshan to the southeast, Nanyan ...
, went into hiding upon learning that he might be under investigation; later arrested * Jia Xiaoye, Zhou Yongkang's wife. She was sentenced to 9 years in prison for taking bribes, influence-using bribery by the Intermediate People's Court in Yichang on June 15, 2016 *
Jiang Zunyu Jiang Zunyu (born June 1957) is a former Chinese politician, best known for his term as one of the top officials of the Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen. He held the title of Secretary of the Shenzhen Municipal Political and Legal Commission befo ...
, head of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Shenzhen; sentenced to life in prison but denied most of the charges against him * Li Huabo, a former local official in Poyang county, Jiangxi Province. Evaded Chinese authorities and went to Singapore in 2011, and deported from Singapore in 2015. Li was sentenced to life in prison for corruption worth 94 million yuan by the Intermediate People's Court in Shangrao on January 23, 2017 * Ma Chaoqun, a municipal water works administrator from
Qinhuangdao Qinhuangdao (; ) is a port city on the coast of China in northern Hebei. It is administratively a prefecture-level city, about east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea. Its population during the 2020 national ...
. Gained notoriety because millions of dollars of bribes were located in his apartment during an investigation by the authorities * Qu Songzhi, Li Chuncheng's wife, former director of the Red Cross Society of Chengdu. She was sentenced to seven years in prison for taking bribes on January 8, 2016 * Tao Yuchun, a former senior executive of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). On September 27, 2016, Tao was sentenced to 23 years in prison for corruption worth 46 million yuan, embezzle public funds worth 9 million yuan, illegal profits for relatives, abuse power by the Intermediate People's Court in Zhuhai * Wang Guoqiang, a former Party chief of Fengcheng city in northeast China's Liaoning Province . Evaded Chinese authorities and went to overseas countries in 2012, and deported from the United States in 2014. Wang was sentenced to 8 years in prison for taking bribes worth 9.59 million yuan and unidentified huge property by the Intermediate People's Court in Shenyang on January 23, 2017 * Wei Pengyuan, a former deputy director of the National Energy Administration's coal department. Gained notoriety because worth over 200 million yuan of cash of bribes were found in his house in Beijing in 2014. On October 17, 2016, Wei was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve without commutation or parole when the sentence was automatically reduced to life imprisonment for taking bribes worth 211.7 million yuan and unidentified 131 million yuan property by the Intermediate People's Court in Baoding * Yang Xiaobo (female), mayor of
Gaoping Gaoping () is a county-level city in the southeast of Shanxi Province, China, under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Jincheng. It has a history stretching back to the Warring States period (403–221 BCE). Part of the city wa ...
, Shanxi * Yang Xiuzhu (female), former deputy director of
Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Ji ...
Construction Department and deputy mayor of
Wenzhou Wenzhou (pronounced ; Wenzhounese: Yuziou ”y33–11 tÉ•iɤu33–32 ), historically known as Wenchow is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Zhejiang province in the People's Republic of China. Wenzhou is located at the extreme south east o ...
. Evaded Chinese authorities and went to overseas countries in 2003, and deported from the United States in 2016 * Yu Tieyi, a former deputy manager of the supply division of the Longmay Mining Holding Group. On October 21, 2016, Yu was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve without commutation or parole when the sentence was automatically reduced to life imprisonment for taking bribes worth 306.8 million yuan by the Intermediate People's Court of Heilongjiang Forest Region in Harbin * Zhong Shijian, Guangdong party discipline official who was himself investigated * Zhou Bin, Zhou Yongkang's son. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison for taking bribes, influence-using bribery, unlawful business operation by the Intermediate People's Court in Yichang on June 15, 2016 * Zhou Feng, Zhou Yongkang's nephew. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison for write false value added tax invoices, influence-using bribery by the Intermediate People's Court in Yichang on June 17, 2016


Non-political personalities

* Gu Xin, musician, former executive chairman of the China Oriental Performing Arts Group * Liu Han, former Sichuan development mogul, former executive chairman of Hanlong Group, executed * Mao Xiaofeng, former chief executive of
China Minsheng Bank China Minsheng Bank (), founded on January 12, 1996, in Beijing, is the first bank in China to be owned mostly by private sector enterprises. The bank was founded by Jing Shuping, a Chinese lawyer and businessman. Minsheng Bank is well known f ...
, thought to be implicated in the Ling Jihua case * Rui Chenggang, CCTV economics channel anchor, linked to Ling Jihua and others by Chinese-language media * Xu Xiang, stock trader * Ye Yingchun, CCTV anchor, speculated by numerous media sources as having had sexual relations with Zhou Yongkang * Huang Hong, comedian known for skit performances on the
CCTV New Year's Gala The ''CCTV New Year's Gala'', also known as the ''Spring Festival Gala'', and commonly abbreviated in Chinese as ''Chunwan'', is a Chinese New Year special produced by China Media Group (CMG). It is broadcast annually on the eve of Chinese Ne ...
, fired from his leading post at the August 1st Film Studios in 2015, thought to have been implicated in corruption but not charged


References

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