No supervision blind spots

Many corrupt officials have confessed that it is the lack of effective supervision that made them fearless in their pursuit of illegal gains. A new reform aims to create a supervisory environment that means civil servants no longer have the space to develop such audacity.

The reform plan stresses that all State organs will be under supervision, including the legislature, judiciary, and industrial organizations with government background, which used to be "marginal areas". Statistics indicate these organizations contributed up to 45 percent of non-government employee graft cases last year.

Beijing and Shanxi and Zhejiang provinces are to pilot the reform whose aim is to establish a system in which intra-Party supervision and supervision of executive power support each other.