【明報專訊】When Xi Jinping took office as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at the party's 18th National Congress in 2012, he began to crack down on corruption. Since then, he has ousted Zhou Yongkang, Bo Xilai, Guo Boxiong, Xu Caihou, Sun Zhengcai and Ling Jihua, the so-called top six "hardened corrupt officials" in the CCP and the upper echelons of the army. He has also announced that anti-corruption is always in progress, and has just meted out sentencing to the "political gang" of six people including Sun Lijun.