For a decade, Xi’s anti-corruption campaign, sweeping across the party, state, and enter prises, targeting not only “tigers” (high-ranking corrupt officials), but also “flies” (low-ranking corrupt officials), was the larges organized anti-corruption effort in the history of CPC. Between 2012 and 2021, the average annual conviction rate for corruption among leaders at national and provincial levels was approximately 1%, which is twice the rate observed among prefecture-level leaders. By May 2021, a total of over four million cadres and officials had been investigated, with 3.7 million of them having been punished by the Central Commission of Discipline Inspection (CCDI).
mandag 30. desember 2024
Anti-corruption campaign in China: An empirical investigation
With China’s economic reform in the late 1970s, and then again with a pro-market turn in 1992-93, corruption became increasingly visible. Since growth has been the top priority for China’s leadership, tackling corruption took a back seat in the past four decades. Meanwhile inequality, some of it probably fueled by corruption, increased significantly. By 2012 corruption became the most compelling challenge confronting the ruling power of Communist Part of China (CPC). Driven by such perception, a far-reaching anti-corruption campaign was started under the aegis of Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since the 18th Communist Party Congress.
