Acts of corruption slowly got 'out of hand'

Editor's note: Corruption Fight Is Always Underway, a documentary produced by the CPC Central Committee for Discipline Inspection and CCTV, continued to show the stories of former senior officials who have fallen from grace during the country's anti-graft drive. The series, which was first broadcast on Monday at 8 pm on CCTV-1, features the cases of 10 former provincial or ministerial-level officials and a former State leader. The interviews were done while the former officials were detained, but before any convictions.

"Over the years, I was appointed to increasingly higher-ranked positions and I couldn't help but compete with my peers on banquet spending. I had my head in the clouds when I held such high positions."

Wang Tianpu, 54, president of China Petrochemical Corporation, China's largest oil refiner