From Reuters, via The Guardian:
Chinese Communist officials are colluding with big business and exacerbating corruption, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday of a problem that was all but wiped out in the years after the party came to power in 1949.
The number of high-level officials being investigated or arrested in the last four years was “higher than any other period in the party’s history”, Xinhua quoted Shao Daosheng, a retired researcher at the party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, as saying.
“The most striking feature of last year’s corruption cases was party and government officials colluding with business people to misappropriate billions of yuan,” the report added. [Full Text]
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