Make officials' pay transparent

China is reforming the pension and wage system of civil servants and employees of government-funded public institutions, which covers about 50 million people.

They will start paying their pension insurance, and receive a long-awaited salary rise at the same time to ensure their income is not affected by the pension insurance. It is noteworthy that the hike in wages will be calculated and applied through a new "sunshine salary" floating mechanism.

Yet before a forbidding law-based anti-graft supervisory system is put in place, higher legal incomes will not necessarily thwart some public servants' greediness for illegal profits squeezed from the power in their hand.