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By the end of November, nearly 40 provincial or higher level officials had been snared this year in the ongoing anti-corruption campaign.
The corruption-busting work was initiated at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in November 2012 and since then more than 50 officials have been removed, including one State-level and two vice-State level officials.
Discipline inspectors across China have punished 84,000 for Party discipline and administrative violations, a 30 percent year on year increase.
Between January and September, 27,235 corruption and bribery cases involving 35,633 officials have been investigated, 33,025 of whom are county or lower level officials.
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Zhou, who was China's third most-powerful politician, served on China's Politburo Standing Committee – the highest decision-making body, until his retirement in Nov 2012.
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