According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, Shanxi province in northern China punished 15,450 officials, including seven top leaders, in 2014. The report said that there are currently 300 vacancies, including three city party chiefs and 16 county chiefs, in the provincial government. The Party is working to replace disciplined officials. These would be the first replacements since the new provincial party leadership was installed last September. It is well known that there is a massive anti-corruption campaign occurring in China, but these figures give us a sense of just how vast this crackdown is and how deep it goes within the party administrative structure. Even in China, 15,450 is a large number of officials to discipline in a single province, even if they are not all replaced. And the fact that the Party has left so many senior positions open for so long is striking.