Stimulus well spent

If this is the whole and true picture of fraud in the execution of the government's mammoth stimulus package, we can say it is very good news.

At its Thursday briefing, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said it found 88 cases of wrongdoing involving the 4-trillion-yuan package to stimulate domestic demand, involving 198 party members.

Given that those are findings from three rounds of inspections they have conducted, and that there are thousands of local governments across the country, such figures are indeed very, very small. So small that we wonder whether society has been overly exaggerating corruption by our public servants.