A total of 98 ministerial-level leaders have been punished by the
Communist Party of China (CPC) for corruption and other violations
from October 1997 to September 2002, the Xinhua News Agency said
yesterday.
The number of officials punished was disclosed in the full text of
the working report of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline
Inspection, which was adopted by the 16th National Congress of the
CPC last week.
According to the report, more than 840,000 people at various levels
were punished for corruption and other transgressions in the past
five years.
Among them, 28,996 were at the county-level and 2,422 were
department-level officials in provincial governments or
ministries.
(China Daily November 20, 2002)