Rule of law seen as key to politics-business ties

Relationship depends on relinquishing of government power, according to panelists

Building a normal politics-business relationship was the focal point of the first panel of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2015, as the panelists reached a consensus that rule of law and relinquishing of government power are the right way to achieve it.

The extensive anti-corruption campaign of recent years has exposed the extent to which the toxic politics-business relationship developed in the past. Since November 2012, 69 officials above vice-provincial level have been investigated, including four vice-state level officials.