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China's anti-graft authorities are set to investigate all major state-owned enterprises (SOE) this year, Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a statement at the conclusion of their fifth plenary session.
A group of investigators, headed by the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, is tasked to look into 153 state-owned companies including banks and other financial institutions supervised by State Council commissions.
Six SOEs have already been inspected and eight more were scrutinized in the latest round of investigations.
Ren Yong, assistant general manager of Dongfeng Motor Corp., and China Southern Airlines' Vice General Manager Chen Gang and its operations director Tian Xiaodong are the SOE executives who faced inquiries after internal inspections of their companies.
To further enhance the investigations, the discipline commission also aims to establish new offices in eight central government departments and CPC Central Committee.
Currently, it has 52 offices in more than 140 central Party and government departments. The commission also established seven offices in central government departments, the CPC Central Committee, the top legislature and national political advisory body.
China's anti-graft campaign last year saw a number of high-profile cases that shocked the country, including that of Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Party's Central Committee, and Xu Caihou, a former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, Shanghai Daily reported.
Also, 68 high-level officials are under investigation or have been removed, according to the discipline commission.
A total of 71,748 officials were sentenced last year for violations of the eight-point anti-graft rules.
