Curbing corruption

Incessant anti-corruption efforts and full recognition of the task's links to its own fate have shown how seriously the Communist Party of China takes the problem.

More than 660,000 Party members have been punished for disciplinary violations between November 2007 and June this year; and more than 24,000 of them transferred to judicial authorities for suspected crimes.

These figures are proof that the CPC is serious about corruption in its own ranks and testify to an obvious sense of urgency in dealing with widely hated abuses of power.