High-tech can help put bribe-givers on 'blacklist'

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China and the National Supervisory Commission, the nation's top anti-corruption watchdogs, as well as the judicial and other departments, including the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, recently issued a joint guideline asking the authorities to take legal measures against and to "blacklist" those offering bribes.

The idea of blacklisting bribe-givers is not new. The Beilun district procuratorate of Ningbo, Zhejiang province, launched such a blacklist also in 2002.

Anti-corruption authorities in Guangdong, Fujian, Shaanxi, Jiangsu and Hunan provinces have used similar mechanisms to fight corruption.