7 regions to share database on graft

SHANGHAI: Companies and individuals who have been convicted of corruption in Shanghai or any other city in six eastern provinces will find it difficult to do business.

Shanghai's prosecutorate's office signed an agreement last month with its counterparts in Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Fujian and Shandong on sharing a single database of people convicted of corruption, Ju Guangjian, a divisional head of the municipal people's procuratorate, said.

Individuals and companies will be able to check whether their clients or employees have previous corruption records. The procedure will only take 10 minutes, Ju said.