Swatting flies essential for clean governance

The documentary The Corruption Fight Is Always Underway that began airing on China Central Television on Monday has attracted widespread attention. It displays the achievements the nationwide anti-corruption campaign has made since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012.

It not only tells the stories of some so-called big tigers, corrupt high-ranking officials, but also those of some "flies", corrupt low-level officials, found guilty of some relatively minor discipline violations. For instance, in 2013, officials at Hainan Provincial Health School gave the faculty moon cake coupons paid for with public funds as gifts for Mid-Autumn Festival. They were duly punished.

Since the beginning of this year, tackling the corruption of the flies has become a focus of the anti-corruption work. As top leader Xi Jinping pointed out at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection at the beginning of this year, people are more sensitive to the corruption of the ordinary Party members around them.