China's official news agency Xinhua reported on January 21, 2016, that since Beijing issued an ethical code for officials banning the use of public funds for lavish private ceremonies and celebrations, the CCP CC's Central  Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC) has investigated 11,445 people and punished 7,558 of them. Of those, 88 were investigated since the beginning of 2016 alone.China’s anti-corruption campaign has netted more than 200 individuals with criminal convictions so far, who have taken nearly one billion U.S. dollars from public coffers between them, according to an online database compiled by the Asia Society’s ChinaFile website using publicly available information from official Chinese government websites. It reveals that 231 individuals have been sentenced for embezzling, stealing, accepting as gifts and bribes or otherwise misused the funds since President Xi Jinping launched the campaign in 2012.