Ex-officials are shown confessing on Internet

First-person examples have become a new tool for anti-graft education, as China's top disciplinary watchdog has begun publishing disgraced officials' confessions.

Once confidential and used for internal review only, details about the officials and their confessions during investigations are now being made public by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the country's top anti-graft agency, both as a warning and an educational tool to deter others.

The case of Zhang Yin, former chairman of the Xuzhou municipal people's political consultative conference in Jiangsu province, was highlighted on the agency's website on Wednesday as the first example of what is expected to be published regularly.