Swatting grassroots flies

Over the past few years, the inspection work carried out by the top authorities has covered almost all central Party and government departments and provincial-level organs.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection recently announced on its official website that a similar inspection system has been or will be set up in 335 prefecture-level cities and 2,220 counties nationwide to offer grassroots people a channel to report officials' malpractices.

Since the authorities began their unprecedented crackdown on corruption a few years ago, people have been anticipating it would help purify the political ecology at the grassroots level. Although senior corrupt officials, the so-called tigers, have been brought down, one after another, the pervasive corruption and abuse of power at the grassroots level have caused public grievances as they have not been effectively checked.