Shuli Ren, Columnist

China’s Propaganda Machine Starts the Year With a Warning

A documentary series highlights the unhappy fate of corrupt officials

January 19, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

Shuli Ren is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asian markets. A former investment banker, she was a markets reporter for Barron’s. She is a CFA charterholder.

The year of the tiger starts with a warning from Beijing.
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If tech billionaires were targeted by China's rulers last year, it looks like millionaire civil servants are next.

“Zero Tolerance,” a new five-part documentary airing this week and jointly produced by CCTV and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the powerful anti-corruption agency, signals just that. In the nine months ending September, CCDI opened about 407,000 cases and punished 438,000 people, the most since disclosures of such figures began in 2017, the watchdog said.