Commercial bribery still campaign focus

A prosecutor points to a poster advertising phone numbers which citizens can call to report bribery or other corruption at a photo show in Shandong. Feng Lei

With the crackdown on commercial corruption entering its third year, money-for-power favors and corruption that affects common people remain top concerns.

The pledge to protect citizen's interests was made by Vice-Minister of Supervision Li Yufu, who is also deputy director of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's leading group on combating commercial bribery.

Speaking at a press conference in Beijing yesterday, Li said this year the campaign would focus on punishing officials who used their position to extract bribes, and the creation of "a lasting mechanism" to curb what he described as a "destabilizing factor in society".