China corruption purge snares 115 SOE ‘tigers'

``Since the beginning of 2014, China's anti-corruption authorities have publicly named 115 C-suite officials from state groups including global giants such as PetroChina, China Southern Airlines, China Resources, FAW and Sinopec, who have been placed under investigation for graft... Since ascending to the top of the Chinese system in late 2012, Chinese President Xi Jinping has been engaged in a ferocious anti-corruption campaign that has already gone further and continued for longer than any other since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. Mr Xi has vowed to tackle high-ranking corrupt "tigers" as well as lowly "flies" in his quest to clean up the sprawling party bureaucracy.''