China has increased its efforts to crack down on corrupt officials and bribery for the past two years, and has released mid-year statistics on its investigations.
From People’s Daily:
More than 1,000 Chinese officials above the county level have been punished for corruption during the first five months, up 2.4 percent over the same period last year, Monday’s Procuratorial Daily said.By April, China had dealt with 21,889 cases of commercial bribery involving 5.3 billion yuan (676 million U.S. dollars) since it started an anti-corruption campaign in 2005, according to official statistics.[Full Text]
See recent corruption cases including, for example, the China Post’s coverage of last week’s investigation into former Premier Su Tseng-chang’s alleged involvement with the Chinese Herbal Medicines Association’s bribes. Or, CDT’s coverage of Zheng Xiaoyu, the former director of the Food and Drug Administration, who was sentenced to death for corruption in May.
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