Idling officials unacceptable

With the authorities maintaining the pressure to stamp out corruption, some officials have resorted to inaction or doing little in order to prevent themselves from being implicated in possible corruption cases or because they no longer receive kickbacks.

A clean and efficient government is the ultimate goal of China's ongoing administrative governance reforms and the campaign against corruption. So any behavior such as inertia or deliberate low efficiency is against the aim of the anti-graft campaign.

Out of fears over their possible implication, some officials have chosen inaction in the context of the anti-corruption campaign so as not to be put under an investigation. Some have chosen to do the same as passive resistance to the fact that their "gray incomes" have been reduced or eliminated because of the campaign.