Members of the Politburo Standing Committee including Xi Jinping at the fifth plenum.
Members of the Politburo Standing Committee including Xi Jinping at the fifth plenum. Beijing has purged a record number of officials from the Chinese Communist party (CCP). Photograph: Li Xiang/Xinhua/AP
Members of the Politburo Standing Committee including Xi Jinping at the fifth plenum. Beijing has purged a record number of officials from the Chinese Communist party (CCP). Photograph: Li Xiang/Xinhua/AP
China expels a record number from Communist party amid Xi’s intensified purges of top officials