The Communist Party of China's top anti-graft body said on Wednesday that 19,000 officials were punished for violating frugality rules in the first half of this year, bringing the total number of those punished since late 2012 to more than 120,000.

Those punished in the first six months of this year were involved in 14,000 cases, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a report posted on its website.

Among the 19,000 punished officials, about 17,000 are of low township levels, and two are of senior ministerial levels, according to the commission.