Net cast wider for corrupt civil servants

New supervisory commissions are being set up across the country following successful pilot programs in three areas, as Zhang Yan reports.

The first corruption suspect detained by the Zhejiang Supervisory Commission, a civil servant, was imprisoned for 15 years and fined 2 million yuan ($318,000) by Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court in December.

China's supervisory commission pilot program had been launched in Zhejiang province, as well as in Beijing and Shanxi province, just over a year earlier.