Graft war yields success, challenges

The fight against corruption has been heating up, according to the work reports delivered by the country's top judge and prosecutor yesterday, though the overall situation remains challenging.

In the past five years, 35 officials at the provincial or ministerial level, 930 at the city level and nearly 14,000 at or above the county level were investigated for embezzlement, bribery or misappropriation of public funds, Jia Chunwang, president of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said.

And Xiao Yang, president of the Supreme People's Court (SPC), said courts had dealt with 120,000 cases of embezzlement, bribery and dereliction of duty, up by about 12 percent from the previous five years.