Time to stop the rot in the lottery system

"Systemic corruption has caused irreparable losses... to the lottery system. It is almost a disaster."

This statement is from Feng Lizhi, former deputy director of China Welfare Lottery Management Center, or CWL. He and 13 of his colleagues, including two former directors and three former deputy directors, are under investigation for "systemic lottery corruption".

On Tuesday, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Communist Party of China's top anti-corruption watchdog, released videos on its official site of the 14 suspects regretting their misdeeds.