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Landslide-style corruption

塌方式腐败 (tafangshi fubai)

Recently-exposed corruption cases are like a landslide in the political ecology, as they have involved a number of officials at various levels that collude with each other and engage in graft together. An article by Xinhua News Agency on Jan 3 pointed out that in the downfall of some "big tigers", which refers to senior corrupt officials under investigation or being sentenced, they were found to have close economic connections with a variety of corrupt officials at different levels. They thus formed factions or even gangs. The article names these gangs as the "petroleum gang", "secretary gang" and "Shanxi gang".