Anti-graft momentum must not abate for clean governance

China has enough reason to take pride in what it has achieved in its fight against corruption on the 15th International Anti-Corruption Day which fell on Sunday. The country is not only well on the way to building a mechanism to place power in the cage of law. It has also achieved a great deal in its cooperation with other countries in tracking down economic criminal suspects that have fled overseas.

A total of 171 ministerial level or above officials have been indicted or investigated for abuse of power since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012. More than 20 of them have been apprehended in a little more than a year since the 19th National Congress of the CPC in October 2017.

What the anti-graft fight has achieved and its unabated momentum speaks volumes for the resolve of the Party leadership to rid the Party and government of all bad apples and finally create a political and legal environment which leaves no room for abuse of power.