Leave the ivory tower a piece of pure land

Recently, besides successive exposure of corrupt senior government officials, people's attention has been attracted to another field with high incidence of corruption - China's ever-enlarging universities.

It is reported that the executive vice-president Chen Zhaofang and executive deputy Party secretary Long Xiaole of China's prestigious Wuhan University in Hubei province had been detained on suspicion of corruption. Before being dismissed, both Chen and Long held long several offices in the university ranging from administrative operation and financial management to academic studies and had been awarded numerous honorary titles. The two chiefs have taken several millions of yuan in bribes from the school construction project.

The "earthshaking" case had seriously tainted the reputation of Wuhan University with a history of more than 100 years, a former president of the institute said bitterly.