Reuters Chinese President Xi Jingping

Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced that his national anticorruption campaign will now extend beyond people and begin investigating state firms.

This directive, says state media organization Xinhua News, is a new priority in 2015. President Xi announced the change through a party communique on Wednesday, after the fifth plenary session of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).

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