Thousands of officials disciplined for failings

More than 4,700 Party officials have been disciplined for failing to carry out their supervisory responsibilities in the first half of this year.

The failures resulted in a series of corruption cases during this period, a senior official from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said on Thursday.

The officials punished come from 370 national Party organs and disciplinary inspection departments, said Zheng Zhencheng, an official at the commission who is in charge of supervising Party officials' working style.