Procurators root out corruption in region

Working with more than 1,000 tipoffs of corruption, the procurators in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region dealt with nearly three-quarters of the total from January through May of 2013. Some 813 people were investigated.

Among the 759 cases dealt with, 376 involved large sums of money and nearly $11.6 million in economic loss was retrieved.

The procuratorate departments encouraged more citizens to report evidence of corrupt official behavior in a new drive in the intensifying fight against graft, said Zhang Caixia, deputy chief procurator of the Xinjiang People's Procuratorate, at a press conference.