In October 2019, Xing Yun, the Deputy Director of the National People’s Congress of the Autonomous Region of Inner Mongolia, was charged with bribery and sentenced to death with reprieve. With an estimated 449 million CNY (62 million USD) that Xing had illegally appropriated across his two-decade-long career in Inner Mongolia, it became at the … 2019: Connecting the dots of China’s largest bribery scandal
In 2011, on the heels of a train crash that killed 40 people and stoked the public’s ire, Caixin revealed large-scale corruption in the building of the country’s high-speed rail system. The long story exposed the “broken system” in the Railways Ministry and in a subsequent issue, put the railways minister Zhang Shuguang on its cover and reported that he had purchased a luxury mansion near Los Angeles in 2002, when he was earning less than 300 USD a month. The minister was tried, accused of funnelling as much as 2.8 billion USD to overseas accounts.
The article is covering the protests that first broke out in Wukan, a village in China’s Guangdong province. In 2011, this was the most detailed article covering the protests at the time. The protests were sparked by local officials’ illegal sale of collectively-owned village land, leading to widespread anger among the villagers.
The article that showed how corruption contributed to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake’s terrible death count
The article that exposed the corruption of local officials in China