For nation's anti-graft campaign, no slowdown

China will continue to expose and punish corrupt senior government and Party officials, judicial authorities said on Sunday, after figures showed a rise in prosecutions last year.

Twenty-two high-ranking officials stood trial last year as part of the nationwide anti-graft campaign, with another 41 placed under investigation, up by 46 percent on 2014, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

Among those punished were Zhou Yongkang, the former security chief, who was sentenced to life in prison for disclosing State secrets, abuses of power and accepting bribes, and Jiang Jiemin, the former head of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, who received 16 years for bribery.