In the first month of 2026, we took down eight corrupt officials and within just three days, we brought down two at the ministerial level.

On the 31st, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Wang Xiangxi, Party Secretary and Minister of the Ministry of Emergency Management, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervision investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission. Wang Xiangxi is the second department-level official to be investigated within three days after the official announcement on January 29 that Sun Shaocheng, Deputy Director of the Social Construction Committee of the Fourteenth National People's Congress, was being investigated. According to the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, the central-level cadres investigated in January are as follows: On January 5, Tian Xuebin, former member of the Party Group and Vice Minister of Water Resources, was investigated; On January 8, Li Xu, Member of the Party Committee and Deputy Commander of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, was investigated; On January 19, Gu Jun, former Deputy Secretary of the Party Group and General Manager of China National Nuclear Corporation, was investigated; On January 22, Zhang Jianlong, former member of the Party Group of the Ministry of Natural Resources and former Secretary and Director of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, was investigated; On January 24, Yang Hongyong, former Member of the Party Committee and Secretary of the Disciplinary Committee of Harbin Electric Group Co., Ltd., and former Supervisory Commissioner of the National Supervisory Commission stationed at Harbin Electric Group Co., Ltd., was investigated; On January 27, Bao Hui, former Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Standing Committee of the Chengdu Municipal People's Congress in Sichuan Province, was investigated; On January 29, Sun Shaocheng, Deputy Director of the Social Construction Committee of the Fourteenth National People's Congress, was investigated; On January 31, Wang Xiangxi, Party Secretary and Minister of the Ministry of Emergency Management, was investigated.