Bold anti-graft actions in the offing

China's fight against corruption in the new era has experienced notable changes, with the focus shifting from winning time for resolving the chronic graft problem in the past to making substantial institutional breakthroughs on the issue, as reflected by the leadership's decision to establish a national supervisory commission to oversee all officials exercising public power in accordance with the law, and the adoption of a series of amendments to the Constitution.

The ongoing anti-corruption campaign is mainly targeted at vested interest groups and the political corruption they are involved in, which Wang Qishan, former chief of the top anti-corruption watchdog, said was the worst form of corruption. Political corruption is, in general, manifested in two aspects: the formation of interest groups with the intention of usurping Party and State power, and clique-based sectarian activities aimed at damaging the Party's centralized unity.

This is an important conclusion made by the Communist Party of China based on its past anti-corruption campaigns. It also shows that to completely eradicate corruption, China must resolutely prevent the formation of intra-Party interest groups, uproot the corrupt forces embedded in the political and economic systems, prevent intra-Party interest groups from seizing political power to change the Party's nature, and build a strict and serious intra-Party political life.