In its 12th round of discipline inspections, the central inspection group will launch flexible inspections over the Office of the Central Leading Group for Cyberspace Affairs, the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, China Railway Corporation and China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation.

According to a statement released after a meeting on Wednesday before the launch of the inspections, flexible discipline inspections are expected to be effective deterrents to corruption. The inspectors stressed that judgments should be made on the basis of people's comments on the work of local committees of the Communist Party of China, and whether the rules for selection and promotion of officials had been implemented properly. More flexible measures should also be introduced in the inspection mechanism to expose and prevent corruption within the discipline authorities.

Since their first round of inspections the central inspection group has been exploring new inspection methods such as the three non-fixed items, namely the team leader is not fixed, the inspection subjects are not fixed and the relationship between the inspectors and inspection subjects is not fixed.

Until now the central inspection group has completed 11 rounds of inspections, covering 247 Party organizations including the local governments of provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, central and State bodies, key State-owned enterprises and central finance organizations.

In the next stage, China will send anti-corruption inspectors to centrally administrated universities including Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nanjing University, and inspection teams will re-examine the work of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region as well as Jilin, Yunnan and Shaanxi provinces.