As of 2025, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has reported that 62 senior officials have been investigated, which is more than the 58 cases from the previous year. This marks the highest number of CCP senior officials being implicated in a single year, indicating that corruption within the CCP has reached an extreme level and the collapse of the regime is inevitable.
On December 21st, the CCP’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and National Supervisory Commission announced on its website that Vice Chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Yin Jianye, is under investigation for suspected serious violations of discipline and law.
Yin Jianye is the 62nd senior official to be investigated this year.
The term “senior official” refers to officials whose appointment powers are managed by the Central Committee of the CCP and recorded by the Organization Department of the Central Committee. Officials at the vice-ministerial level or higher are considered “senior officials,” and in some important units, officials at the level of bureau director or deputy bureau director are also classified as “senior officials.”
Senior officials mainly refer to high-ranking officials in the party and government system, excluding the military.
According to state-run media Xinhua News Agency, as of now, a total of 62 senior officials within the CCP have been investigated this year. Additionally, statistics show that during the first three quarters of this year, 90 provincial and ministerial-level officials nationwide were subject to investigation by disciplinary and supervisory authorities, a significant increase compared to the same period last year.
On December 31, 2024, Xinhua News Agency reported that 58 senior officials were publicly investigated and dealt with.
In 2023, 45 senior officials were announced to be under investigation. This was the highest number of senior officials investigated in a single year since the 18th National Congress of the CCP (when Xi Jinping came to power). The previous record was 38 officials investigated in 2014.
Xinhua News Agency recently cited CCP experts claiming that the latest data on the anti-corruption campaign in 2025 reflects the party’s determination in fighting corruption.
Commentator Li Linyi said that the increasing number of investigations indicates that the corruption within the CCP has reached an extreme point, leading to the irreparable disintegration of this regime.
In recent years, the CCP has been boasting about its so-called “anti-corruption achievements,” highlighting the large number of officials investigated and an increasing trend year by year. However, netizens mock the CCP’s anti-corruption efforts as “swatting flies around a dung heap,” suggesting that focusing on the quantity of corrupt officials does not address the fundamental issue of systemic corruption.
Former CCP disciplinary official Wang Youqun wrote in the Epoch Times, stating that the corruption within the CCP is systemic. The CCP’s system is a one-party dictatorship where the party controls legislation, enforcement, judiciary, decision-making, execution, supervision, and all branches of the government. With the party acting as both the player and the referee, it is impossible to have effective oversight. The lack of robust oversight leads to continuous breeding and spread of corruption.
Professor Feng Chongyi from the University of Technology Sydney in Australia pointed out that despite the CCP’s rhetoric against corruption for years, the problem has only worsened as the anti-corruption campaign serves as a political tool to control the bureaucratic system rather than addressing the root issues.
In a document released by the CCP on August 29, 2016, titled “Opinions on Preventing the ‘Promotion of Officials with Ill Health,'” it was stipulated that if the promotion of officials with health issues leads to negative consequences, the main party officials responsible will be held accountable for repeated or widespread cases of such promotions.
Commentator Du Zheng previously wrote in Taiwan’s Up Media, suggesting that CCP’s personnel decisions are recommended by the Organization Department and approved by Xi Jinping, making Xi the primary person responsible for corruption within the party.