Anti-corruption campaign always on the road

China's fight against corruption must maintain its intensity and not turn back, relax or show any mercy to the corrupt officials, the country's top leader declared at a meeting that evaluated last year's anti-corruption drive and prepared the road map for this year's campaign.

While all the members of China's leading anti-graft body were discussing the importance of the anti-corruption campaign at the third plenary session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, China Central Television was telecasting an anti-corruption documentary series, exposing the details of a dozen or so corruption cases investigated last year.

The series shows how three consecutive directors of a northeastern provincial public security bureau, who headed the organ for 20 years, took bribes amounting to 1.2 billion yuan ($167 million) in total and turned the bureau from a defender to a destroyer of public security. The series also shows the senior leaders of eight bureaus of a northwestern province, as part of a clique, meeting for "a drink" while studying central discipline documents in the provincial Party school. The get-together resulted in the death of one of the officials because of excessive intake of alcohol.