According to CCP, among those sanctioned there is a ministerial official, 633 from other departments of the central government and 14,000 from local agencies.
Since January, CCP opened 130,000 cases after receiving thousands of complaints and denunciations from population on corrupt practices and violations to the country’s norms and laws.
Since 2012 the CCP has been cracking down so hard on corruption, accelerating efforts in the last five years from the grassroots to build a clean politics in China, as well as to wipe out formalism, bureaucracy, extravagance and hedonism in state institutions.
Although positive results have been seen, CCP´s disciplinary authorities will continue fighting to neutralize in the long term any work style deemed undesirable.
CCP´s leaders consider these evils as major threat to the Party and has repeatedly warned that those who incur in such acts will not have chances for promotion within the organization and will face justice for their mistakes.
Past October, Chinese President Xi Jinping promised firm punishment for misdeeds in political and commercial sectors.
“As long as there is fertile ground and favorable conditions for germination, we will not stop for a single second in this struggle (…) we will continue promoting as a whole that no one dares, may or attempts to corrupt,” he said.
There's something like 90 million party members, so not that much in the grand scheme of things.
Between 95 and 100 mill at this point iirc
to be fair, not every party member is a state official, and not every state official is a party member, contrary to popular belief.
(Some of these numbers might be from the 2010s, but you get the picture)
Party structure:
State structure (not the same as party structure):
I remember going down a research rabbit hole once, "how many directly elected officials are in China", and the best answer I could find was an estimate that there were 1-2 million elections per year in China (with most positions being for 5-year terms, that's an estimated 5-10 million elected officials). These would be the people's deputies in the counties, cities and towns, ie the fourth and fifth levels of government, who themselves are the ones who vote in the higher-level elections.
interesting. I don't have anything to add, just wanted to let you know i read this.