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January 2025	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping President Xi Jinping publicly declared corruption as the 'biggest threat' to the Communist Party, reaffirming the government's ongoing commitment to combating corruption.
2024	Swedish Trade Union Confederation Johan Lindholm becomes the current chairman, taking office in 2024.
2023	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection conducted investigations into 27 central State-owned enterprises.
2023	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Publication of 'The Blind Eye', a book examining the broader economic consequences of Xi's anti-corruption efforts, particularly its impact on global markets like the fur trade.
2022	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping A study by researchers from the University of Navarra and the University of Manchester critically analyzed the effects of Xi's anti-corruption campaign, revealing complex economic impacts.
2020	Swedish Trade Union Confederation Susanna Gideonsson takes over the chairmanship, leading the organization from 2020 to 2024.
2020	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Research shows increased economic corruption during Xi Jinping's administration, with private firms benefiting from political connections.
December 2020	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Foreign Policy published an analysis suggesting the anti-corruption campaign was partially motivated by counterintelligence concerns, revealing vulnerabilities in the CCP created by decades of internal corruption.
January 2020	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign began investigating 534 cadres in Inner Mongolia for corruption related to coal industry dealings, spanning a ten-month period until October 2020.
2019	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Investigations reached 42 central SOEs, including the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission itself.
2019	Swedish Trade Union Confederation Union density of Swedish blue-collar workers dropped to 60%, a seventeen percentage point decline since 2006.
2019	Swedish Trade Union Confederation Blue-collar union density dropped to 60%, a substantial 17 percentage point decline since 2006.
December 31 2018	Swedish Trade Union Confederation Membership snapshot shows the LO confederation comprises 1,232,815 total members, with 52% men and 48% women across 14 affiliated unions.
2017	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Wang Qishan concluded his term as CCDI Secretary after overseeing significant anti-corruption investigations.
2017	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping By this point, twelve top executives of core central SOEs were removed from office on corruption charges.
2017	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping By this time, approximately 2.3 million government officials had been prosecuted as part of the anti-corruption campaign under Wang Qishan's leadership of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
2015	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping The anti-corruption campaign intensified with investigations into 43 central State-owned enterprises.
2015	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping The anti-corruption campaign in Shanxi reached such intensity that 300 government jobs became vacant due to investigations and dismissals.
2015	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping By this time, almost all high-level officials investigated or removed from office were from non-princeling backgrounds, indicating a widespread and systematic anti-corruption effort.
March 2015	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping By March, only three members of the original Shanxi provincial standing committee remained, with most members replaced or removed, indicating central authorities' intervention.
February 2015	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Su Rong was officially expelled from the Communist Party, particularly citing corruption during his term as party chief in Jiangxi province from 2007 to 2013.
January 2015	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Yang Weize, the former party chief of Nanjing, was detained for investigation as part of the anti-corruption campaign, following his earlier dismissal of Nanjing mayor Ji Jianye.
2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Investigations expanded to ten central State-owned enterprises by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Data from the first half of 2014 revealed an exceptionally high conviction rate of approximately 99% for officials investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), indicating the aggressive nature of Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign.
2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Lieutenant Governor Liu Zhigeng and Zhuhai party chief Li Jia were both sacked as part of the anti-corruption campaign breaking down local patronage networks.
2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index ranked China lower, falling from 80th to 100th place, indicating challenges in the anti-corruption efforts.
2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Zhu Mingguo, the province's top political advisor, was investigated for corruption, becoming one of the few incumbent officials of full provincial rank to face such scrutiny.
2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping The Economist published a column suggesting that corruption allegations were being used as a political weapon in power struggles within the Chinese Communist Party, highlighting the complex nature of Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign.
2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping In Shenzhen, party chief Wang Rong was moved to a provincial office, and several of his subordinates were investigated for corruption.
2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Shanxi Province's Party Secretary Yuan Chunqing transferred out of office, replaced by Jilin party chief Wang Rulin in a centrally orchestrated leadership change.
December 2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Central government officials met with Macau local officials to establish real-time access to UnionPay card transactions, targeting economic crimes and money transfers between Macau and mainland China.
December 2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Zhou Yongkang was formally expelled from the Communist Party after an internal investigation concluded he abused power, took bribes, and leaked state secrets.
December 22 2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Ling Jihua, former senior aide to ex-Party general secretary Hu Jintao, fell under the anti-corruption investigation while serving as head of the United Front Work Department.
September 2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Former economic official Liu Tienan became the first high-profile official to undergo a televised trial during the anti-corruption campaign.
August 29 2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Conclusion of the initial Shanxi political purge, with multiple high-ranking officials removed from power.
August 23 2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Start of the 'Shanxi political earthquake', with four sitting members of the provincial Party Standing Committee sacked in a dramatic anti-corruption purge.
August 5 2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Tong Mingqian was convicted of dereliction of duty in a vote-buying scandal and sentenced to five years in prison.
July 2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Wan Qingliang, the popular party chief of Guangzhou, was sacked from his position and replaced by Ren Xuefeng, an outsider from Tianjin.
July 31 2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Wang Suyi was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for bribery.
July 30 2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Zhou Yongkang was publicly announced as being under investigation for 'severe disciplinary violations', becoming the first Politburo Standing Committee member to be investigated since the Cultural Revolution.
June 30 2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping General Xu Caihou was officially expelled from the Communist Party for taking bribes in exchange for promotions and faced criminal prosecution.
March 2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping General Xu Caihou was taken from his sick bed at 301 Military Hospital in Beijing to be investigated for corruption.
January 30 2014	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Caixin published a video and article about 'The Three White Gloves of Zhou Bin', indirectly investigating Zhou Yongkang's son's alleged wrongdoings while avoiding direct censorship.
2013	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection began investigating two central State-owned enterprises (SOEs) as part of the anti-corruption campaign.
2013	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping In Inner Mongolia, Wang Suyi, head of the party's regional United Front department, is detained as part of the anti-corruption campaign.
2013	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping Xi Jinping launched an extensive anti-corruption campaign within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), targeting systemic corruption that had developed during the Hu-Wen era.
2013	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping 26 prefecture-department rank officials and 336 county-division rank officials were disciplined in Shanxi province as part of the anti-corruption campaign.
2013	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping The anti-corruption campaign began intensively targeting high-level officials, with a particular focus on officials from 'commoner' backgrounds, most of whom were from farming backgrounds.
2013	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping First batch of central inspection teams dispatched to multiple provinces including Jiangxi, Inner Mongolia, Chongqing, and Hubei to investigate official corruption.
December 15 2013	Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping The New York Times published a front-page article confirming that Zhou Yongkang was the ultimate target of the anti-corruption campaign.
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