Chinese airlines and railways, the country’s aluminium giant and even the Communist party’s own newspaper are among the latest state-owned enterprises to be probed for corruption by the country’s ruling party.
A total of 26 groups will be subject to inspections, according to a list published following a meeting of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party’s extrajudicial anti-graft watchdog.
The investigations are part of China’s ongoing anti-corruption campaign, which has brought down leading figures such as Zhou Yongkang, the country’s former security chief, as well as tens of thousands of lower-ranking party cadres. The purge has accompanied a consolidation of power under President Xi Jinping.