Discipline inspection commissions of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and supervision departments at all levels investigated 139,621 corruption cases in 2010, said a senior official with the Party's top discipline watchdog on June 22.

A total of 146,517 people were given disciplinary punishments and 5,373 were transferred to judicial bodies for criminal investigation last year, said Wu Yuliang, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection at a press conference.