More Corrupt Chinese Officials to Fall

Aug 29, 2014 10:57 PM EDT

A man buys cigarettes at a newsstand carrying a newspaper with front page cover of China's then Politburo Standing Committee Member Zhou Yongkang in Beijing July 30, 2014. REUTERS/Jason Lee

China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) announced this week that the crackdown against corrupt ranking officials in the country will continue.

The crackdown, dubbed "Tiger Hunt", will go on as long as there are corrupt government officials in China, said CCDI Secretary Wang Qishan.

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Although he did not directly answer questions pertaining to other high ranking government officials who might soon be taken into custody, Wang said the public will soon find out.

The "Tiger Hunt" has resulted to the arrest of former security chief Zhou Yongkang at a meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) that began Monday.

Zhou, 71, is the highest-profile figure caught up in President Xi Jinping's sweeping crackdown on corruption and is the most senior official to be put under investigation since China's reform and opening-up began in 1978.

The Supreme People's Court said on Wednesday that the case involving the country's former security chief has not yet entered legal proceedings.

The court's spokesman, Sun Jungong, said information on the case has not yet been passed to the top court, adding that the investigation is still ongoing.

Wang, meanwhile, confirmed that President Xi’s anti-corruption drive will take into account corrupt conduct before the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Part of China (CPC) Committee.

The seventh meeting of the 12th CPPCC began in Beijing on Aug. 25, with its focus being implementation of Xi's eight rules, and was hosted by CPPCC chairman Yu Zhengsheng, who invited Wang to attend.

Wang also criticized the gift-giving culture in Chinese society, noting that iPhones or luxury wines are hidden inside moon cake boxes or fruit baskets, which he described as "ridiculous."

He stressed that ranking members of the CPC have to improve their stance from "daring not to be corrupt" and "cannot be corrupt" to "do not want to be corrupt."

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