Civil servants to be taught ethical behavior

Campaign 'of great significance' to raise public confidence in their performance

BEIJING - Public servants are to receive systematic and compulsory training in ethics over the next five years, according to the State Administration of Civil Service.

The ethics campaign, which will be "of great significance" in lifting public confidence in the government and in civil servants as well as in consolidating the Party's governance position, will be carried out from 2011 to 2015, it announced.