Graft-busting tools to arm national supervisory commission

A national supervisory commission is expected to be established at the first session of the 13th National People's Congress in March, increasing the powers of graft-busters to go after corruption.

Three pilots for supervisory commissions that have been running in Beijing as well as Shanxi and Zhejiang provinces have been granted new tools normally reserved for police or courts.

"Now we can resort directly to some of the measures," said Rui Chenwen, an official at Shanxi's supervisory commission, hailing the efficiency of the approaches. "In the past, those measures would require the assistance of judicial organs like police departments and procuratorates."