BEIJING: The Communist Party of China’s (CPC) top disciplinary body has called for intensified anti-corruption efforts during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026–2030), stressing the need for stronger and more effective measures to curb graft.
The call was made in a communiqué adopted at the fifth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), held in Beijing from Monday to Wednesday. President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the session and delivered an important speech.
The plenary session reviewed discipline inspection and supervision work carried out in 2025 and outlined key tasks for 2026. It also adopted a work report presented by Li Xi, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Political Bureau and secretary of the CCDI.
The session agreed to take guidance from Xi’s speech, strengthen political oversight, improve conduct, strictly enforce discipline and continue an unwavering fight against corruption.
It noted that in 2025, disciplinary authorities investigated and punished major violations while publicly exposing typical cases to promote better work conduct and foster positive practices across the Party. Anti-corruption efforts were intensified in key sectors, including finance, state-owned enterprises, energy, firefighting, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, higher education and sports.
The communiqué said campaigns targeting misconduct and corruption at the grassroots level were further deepened, while reforms of the discipline inspection and supervision system made steady progress.
As China enters the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the session stressed that the Party faces new challenges in advancing comprehensive and rigorous self-governance. It called for decisive steps to eliminate the conditions that allow corruption to take root.
The session emphasized the importance of strengthening political oversight to ensure the successful implementation of development goals, urging strict action against rule-breaking behavior, opportunism, factionalism, silo thinking and unprincipled compromise. It also called for improved long-term mechanisms to regulate conduct, intensified anti-graft efforts in priority sectors, and tougher scrutiny of collusion between officials and business interests.
The session further stressed the need to advance discipline inspection and supervision work in a more standardized and law-based manner.
Senior Party and state leaders, including Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang and Li Xi, attended the session.
