More ‘tigers’ are being culled than ever before in a campaign that could be becoming the new normal
7-MIN READ7-MIN ListenYuanyue Dangin BeijingandWilliam Zhengin Hong KongPublished: 6:00am, 4 Mar 2026Updated: 6:05am, 4 Mar 2026In the run-up to this year’s ‘two sessions’ – the annual meetings of China’s top legislature and political advisory body – high-level policymakers have stressed the need to defuse financial risks and root out political corruption, two of President Xi Jinping’s long-term priorities. As part of a series, Yuanyue Dang and William Zheng look at why the fight against graft is the new normal.
Rather than signalling an end, the declaration now appears to have been a beginning.
Last year, graft fighters at various levels punished more than 983,000 people, according to numbers released in January.
All of these sacked officials will be absent from the annual “two sessions”, which starts on Wednesday.
