Golden chance to end graft

The new leadership of China, headed by Xi Jinping, the President, will complete its first year in office in March. Its dedicated mission is to broaden and deepen the time-tested reform and opening-up, which have commanded public support for more than 30 years.

To strengthen the tradition of reform and opening-up, the new economic measures are aimed at creating additional wealth and the new political measures seek to eliminate the social excesses that are anti-cohesive and wealth draining. The two measures are also directed at fighting their respective vices in a timely manner. The economic measures are completing the fight against the vice of poverty, and the political measures are chiming in to fight the potent, damaging vice of social excesses.

The new leadership's political measures against social excesses are known collectively as the "anti-corruption campaign", which also includes other practices of excesses such as waste, conspicuous consumption, and anti-social work styles of formalism, bureaucratization, hedonism and extravagance.