Shanxi plans to cut graft at root

Shanxi province will pay attention to investigating more graft cases in the selection of new government officials and curb corruption at its root, a senior official from Shanxi said on Friday.

Up till now, there have been 300 vacant positions for governmental officials in Shanxi after an intensive crackdown on corruption initiated in November 2012, when China's new leadership took office.

The vacant governmental posts include three secretaries of municipal Party committees, 16 secretaries of county Party committees and 13 heads of counties, said Wang Rulin, Party chief of Shanxi province.