ON APRIL 22, 2015, the International Criminal Police Organization National Central Bureau for China issued global arrest warrants for the 100 most-wanted Chinese fugitives overseas, of whom 60 percent were officials accused of bribery and graft. Two years after that, 40 of the 100 suspects have been brought to justice. An editorial on Beijing Youth Daily commented on Sunday:

Bringing back 40 of the 100 most-wanted corrupt Chinese officials to face the charges against them is only part of the achievement made by the Chinese authorities in hunting corrupt officials that have fled overseas. Since it launched the so-called fox-hunting campaign in 2014, it has successfully brought 2,566 corrupt officials back, of which 1,283 came back of their own volition or at the persuasion of the anti-graft agencies.

It is the national anti-graft campaign that was launched after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in October 2012 that made these achievements possible. Echoing the top leadership's call for more strictly regulating the Party and fighting corruption, the authorities at various levels have established special offices in order to bring back officials that have fled overseas.