China's ongoing anti-corruption campaign is timely and appropriate, and will pave the way for the fulfillment of the general global well-being.
There have been many changes in the way Chinese people spend their Spring Festival holiday in recent years, and not every change has been welcomed by all. But a notable change this year is indisputably praiseworthy, and the change is apt to become the norm, said a commentary in Beijing News.
Higher pay and better welfare may motivate the "flies" to keep away from corruption, because that would enable them to survive without having to seek money through illegal means.
The Communist Party of China vowed on Wednesday to fight corruption firmly and to maintain its "high-handed posture" in the next five years.
It is not too much to call 2013 the year of an anti-corruption storm.
The successive moves to fight corruption and extravagance are credible signs that Chinese leaders want substantial changes in officialdom.
How to maintain a clean government? This is expected to be one of the main topics discussed at the upcoming Third Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee.
The fierce anti-graft campaign launched by China's new leaders is extending deeper into the country's economic activities as the top anti-graft watchdog has announced the investigation of Jiang Jiemin, chairman of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.
The ban imposed on the use of public money to buy moon cakes as a gift once again demonstrates the new leadership's resolve to fight extravagance.
Several ministerial-level officials are reportedly under investigation as the new leaders apply an iron hand in fighting corruption.
On Tuesday, the Party's anti-graft body meted out disciplinary punishments to officials who, in six separate cases, had violated the Party's new rules on work style. This highlights the Party leadership's resolve to improve efficiency and put an end to the wasting of public money and other irregularities.
The Supreme People's Court has conclud- ed 138,000 cases that involved corruption in the past five years, and 143,000 people have been sentenced to prison, according to the report the SPC president delivered to the ongoing National People's Congress session on Sunday.
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