Hu charts path in anti-corruption drive

President Hu Jintao laid out the key steps in the next stage of China's anti-corruption campaign during a speech to a conference of the top disciplinary body of the Communist Party of China (CPC) yesterday.

There will be four major fronts, said Hu, who is also the CPC Central Committee's general secretary, at a plenary session of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).

They are to step up ethics education; to keep up the momentum of the campaign by routing out key offenses and high-level suspects; to address the problems that pose a great threat to the public interest; and to mend the official system and its procedures at the same time.