China: Anti-graft fight will never end

China’s top anti-graft official says the fight against deeply-ingrained corruption will never end, signaling nonstop pressure against government fraud in the world’s second-largest economy.

Chinese politicians must follow the rules and implement the Communist Party’s discipline due to the tough and complicated anti-corruption drive, China’s head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Wang Qishan said on Saturday.

“The fight against corruption and the construction of a clean government is still ongoing,” Wang noted.

The Chinese Communist Party promised this week to boost the anti-graft campaign.

President Xi Jinping kicked off an anti-corruption campaign two years ago. Since then, several high-profile lawmakers have been expelled from the ruling Communist Party and charged with corruption.

China investigated more than 25,000 people for corruption in the first half of 2014.

The vow to punish graft came only days after the Communist Party began an investigation into former domestic security chief, Zhou Yongkang, by far the highest-profile figure caught up in Xi’s corruption crackdown.

President Xi has pledged to root out every corrupt official as widespread graft threatens the survival of the Communist Party.

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