CHINA’S top judge has said the Party’s decision to investigate former senior leader Zhou Yongkang demonstrates clearly that no Party member is above the law, China News Service reported.

    The investigation “fully illustrates that in socialist China no power exists outside the cage of the system, and Party members will never be allowed outside Party discipline and national laws,” Zhou Qiang, president of the Supreme People’s Court, said Tuesday.

    The Party announced July 29 that it had launched a corruption investigation into former security chief Zhou Yongkang, who was one of China’s most influential politicians of the past decade and stood on the Politburo Standing Committee.

    Zhou Yongkang, 71, is by far the highest-profile figure caught up in President Xi Jinping’s sweeping crackdown on corruption and the most senior official to be ensnared in a graft scandal since the Party came to power in 1949.

    “Leading officials irrespective of position or Party standing and tenure will be subject to Party discipline constraints and must receive education and supervision of Party organizations,” Zhou Qiang said at a court meeting on Party building. Zhou Qiang and Zhou Yongkang are not related.

    (SD-Agencies)