Anti-corruption action

The concern the media has shown to the anti-corruption seminar convened on Saturday by Wang Qishan, secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, points to the hopes the public has pinned on the new Party leadership for more intensified action against corruption.

While there is no question about the high degree of consensus both inside and outside the Party on the damage abuse of power has done and will do to both the Party and the country, what most people are truly concerned about is where the breakthrough is to be made for the establishment of a mechanism that can place the exercise of public power in the sunshine.

The repeated exposure of problematic officials on the Internet in recent days and the high accuracy in targeting the right ones - which has been verified by the investigations that followed - have given further prominence to the lack of an effective institutional mechanism to stop officials from laying their hands on interests they are not entitled to.