In the past five years, Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign has steamrolled more than 1.5 million crooked Communist Party officials. And it may just be getting started. Addressing the twice-a-decade gathering of the Communist Party's leadership on Wednesday, China's most powerful leader in a generation pledged he would continue to show "no tolerance for corruption". Xi, who is set to secure a second five-year term as party chief during the congress, said the country had to intensify its efforts to combat the "symptoms and root causes" of graft. "Corruption is the greatest threat our party faces," he told an audience of more than 2300 delegates in Beijing, adding that the party must have "strength and tenacity to persevere in the never-ending fight". The speech followed an announcement last Saturday that the 205-person Central Committee had expelled 12 senior members, including former justice minister Wu Aiying. The campaign to clean up the country's ubiquitous co...
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