China Opens 800,000 Anticorruption Cases in Nine Months

China’s anticorruption watchdog opened investigations into 800,000 cases in the first nine months of 2026, including 79,000 involving current or former village Communist Party secretaries and village committee chiefs, underscoring the campaign’s reach from Beijing’s senior ranks to the country’s grassroots.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and National Supervisory Commission said Tuesday that it disciplined 680,000 people from January through September. Those punished included 105 officials at or above the provincial-ministerial level, 3,680 at the bureau level, 28,000 at the county level and 92,000 at the township level.