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2010-3-12 11:10

China's Procurator-General Cao Jianming delivers a
report on the work of the Supreme People's Procuratorate
during the fourth plenary meeting of the Third Session of
the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall
of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 11, 2010.


China's procuratorate conducted graft probes against 2,670 officials above county level last year, including eight at the provincial or ministerial level, said Prosecutor-General Cao Jianming Thursday.


Cao told nearly 3,000 lawmakers at the annual session of the parliament that prosecutors investigated about 41,000 officials, down 3.3 percent, in more than 32,000 cases, up 0.9 percent, of embezzlement, bribery, dereliction of duty and other work-related crimes last year.


The eight high-ranking officials include Huang Songyou, former vice president of the Supreme People's Court and Wang Yi, former vice president of the state-run China Development Bank.


Also on the list are Chen Shaoji, former top political advisor of southern Guangdong Province, and Wang Huayuan, a former provincial official in eastern Zhejiang Province.


Among the probed, more than 18,000 were "extremely serious" corruption cases, while 3,100 were grave cases in connection to dereliction of duty or infringement of people's rights, according to the report on the work of the Supreme People's Procuratorate delivered by Cao.


More than 9,300 government workers were implicated in cases of dereliction of duty, malfeasance and infringement of people's rights, Cao said.


Nearly 3,200 bribers were punished "in an effort to strengthen crackdown on bribery offering crimes," he said.


Cao said the authorities seized more than 1,100 on-the-run suspects involved in work-related crimes, with more than 7.1 billion yuan (about one billion U.S. dollars) embezzled or received in bribes recovered.


About 4,000 corrupt officials have made off to Canada, the United States, Australia and other countries with over 50 billion U.S. dollars of public money in the last three decades, according to statistics of the Ministry of Commerce.(Xinhua)

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China has been for decades dogged by officials' graft and corruption. Different people have different opinions towards the epidemic. Some argue that it is part of human nature, which means people are born greedy. In this sense, desire will grow if you feed it.

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"China has been for decades dogged by officials' graft and corruption. Different people have different opinions towards the epidemic. Some argue that it is part of human nature, which means people are born greedy. In this sense, desire will grow if you feed it."

This might be a problem of understanding the english language i see here. Desire and greed mean two different things in english, and english speaking people universally know this difference. Desire is part of human nature and acceptable unless it is at cross-purposes with a higher principle. For example, a man and woman cannot have sex and produce a child without the existance of desire! On the other hand, greed is a word specifically meaning the corruption of the human instinct, called "desire". Also, it is one of the "Seven Deadly sins" of the Christian bible. To define greed it is quite simple. It is a sort of desire or want to obtain much more than you could possibly need, or even something which you have no need for whatsoever. From a modern scientific perspective, "Greed" is probably a minor psychological pathology based in low self-esteem, loneliness, or even a desire to do harm to others.

The question of official's graft and corrruption in China, this might not be exactly just greed. It can be a systemic problem, e.g. has become part of the very culture of certain instutions and is in a way "expected" way of doing business. This is the problem we have in Canada and almost all socialist-type western countries. The so-called "Culture of corruption" turns good people bad.

The unique situation which might worsen this corruption in China, is that wealthy people may look to the western standards of "Wealth"  and consider themselves "comaparitvely unwealthy" etc.

The obvious solution is to punish, and re-educate, because no matter what dishonesty especially with public funds is totally immoral!