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China's top anti-graft watchdog said on Friday that it had filed more than 4,000 disciplinary cases against officials in 2024, as it attempts to tackle a long-running corruption problem.

Corruption is the biggest threat to China's Communist Party and is on the rise, President Xi Jinping said on Monday at the start of a three-day congress of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).

China was rocked last year by high-profile corruption probes that included a deputy central bank governor and a former chairman of its biggest oil and gas company, adding to unease in an economy struggling to secure a firm footing.

The CCDI filed cases against 73 provincial and ministerial-level officials and 4,348 department- and bureau-level officials in 2024, it said in a statement.

A total of 889,000 people were punished, including 680,000 for not adhering to Communist Party discipline and 270,000 for what it said were "administrative sanctions".

Reuters

The headquarters of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China is pictured in Beijing, China February 10, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo

China files more than 4,000 disciplinary cases against officials in 2024