BEIJING, Aug. 14 -- More than 84,000 officials were given administrative and Party disciplinary punishments in the first half of this year, Huang Shuxian, minister of supervision, said Thursday.

The number is 30 percent up on the same period of last year, Huang said at an anti-graft seminar of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies.

In 2013, discipline and supervision authorities received over 1.95 million tip-offs, filing more than 172,000 cases and punishing 182,000 officials. Over 9,600 officials' cases were transferred to judicial authorities, Huang said.