President Xi Jinping will be waging his anti-corruption campaign in the Communist Party and central government offices in Hong Kong and Macau, China's anti-graft watchdog announced Wednesday.

The country's anti-corruption watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection( CCDI), said officials in the central agency are about to experience Xi's ruthless and unprecedented campaign against corruption.

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Besides zeroing in on bringing home financial fugitives to face trial, the CCDI will also focus its ongoing corruption inspections on the agency tasked with handling Hong Kong and Macau affairs.

First time

The anti-graft inspections on Hong Kong and Macau affairs officials will have their first taste of Beijing's ongoing anti-corruption drive, since President Xi declared war against corruption when he assumed office four years ago.

CCDI said inspection teams will be dispatched to the Hong Kong and Macau affairs offices as well as the agencies of the country's lawmaking body, the National People's Congress, in the coming weeks.

More than 30 government agencies and other central offices will not be spared from anti-corruption inspections, the CCDI added.

Anti-graft inspections

CCDI head Wang Qishan said conducting anti-graft inspections has been proven to curb rampant corruption, and it is just one of several methods that his agency has used.

"Inspections are an important way to carry out internal party supervision," he said.

" Inspectors must stay in step with President Xi Jinping and examine whether the party's guidelines and policies have been truthfully enforced in a bid to resolutely safeguard the party's central leadership," Wang said.

He added that past anti-graft inspections have seen the downfall of dozens of senior government officials and executives of state-owned companies.

The dispatch of the audit teams to Hong Kong and Macau comes on the heels of President Xi's ruthless campaign against corruption, which he admitted had tainted the party's reputation and undermined its credibility.

Wang said more inspection teams will be sent to the ministries of foreign affairs, finance, and public security as part of the nationwide graft cleanup.

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