China's top graft buster to go after 'political deviation'


  • World
  • Tuesday, 19 Feb 2019

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top anti-corruption body will target "political deviation" this year along with continued efforts to stamp out graft, it said on Tuesday, as part of a long-running campaign to improve discipline in the ruling Communist Party.

President Xi Jinping has presided over a sweeping corruption crackdown since coming to power in 2012, vowing to target both "tigers" and "flies", referring to elite officials and ordinary bureaucrats.

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