Overview
- Official data show 983,000 people were disciplined in 2025, a 10.6% increase from 2024 and the highest annual total since such figures were released.
- At the CCDI conclave, priorities for the year were set to enforce political loyalty, tighten oversight of finance, energy, education and state-owned enterprises, and address deferred bribes and revolving doors.
- State television aired a four-part documentary featuring confessional interviews with disgraced officials, including a former agriculture minister and a former top banker turned regional leader.
- Party reporting counted more than 140,800 punishments for policy inaction, recklessness or deceit from January to November 2025, underscoring rising bureaucratic caution.
- The CCDI meeting recorded attendance of 120 of 133 members, or 90%, the lowest rate since 1986 according to a Wall Street Journal review, with many absentees being senior military officers under scrutiny.