Investigations find wide-ranging graft

Editor’s note: China’s top anti-graft watchdog announced that it is about to embark on the year’s second round of inspections. Thirteen teams will be sent across the country by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China. The investigators will collect information about misconduct by offi cials from whistleblowers. The first round of inspections, detailed in this graphic, uncovered corruption in 11 local government bodies, a ministry, a major State-owned enterprise and a university.

Ministry of Science and Technology

Supervision of agencies under the ministry’s jurisdiction is ineffective, and many ministry employees have part-time jobs with the agencies.

Cases of fraud have been uncovered in some research programs, and there is a lack of financial supervision.

China Oil and Foodstuffs Corp

Punishment for corruption is far too lenient.

Managers whose misconduct resulted in some of the company’s operating losses escaped retribution entirely.

Fudan University

Scientific research funds are misused amid a lack of effective supervision. There have been serious violations of the regulations covering construction projects. A hospital run by the university is not supervised properly.

Beijing municipality

Many lower level officials, including village leaders, were engaging in serious acts of corruption.

Misconduct is concentrated in key areas such as State-owned enterprises, construction, education, medicine and health.

Tianjin municipality

Corruption is found in State-owned enterprises, and many officials in rural areas are involved. A significant number of cases involve urban construction projects.

Liaoning province

Some government leaders have interfered in the bidding process for public projects and behaved improperly in relation to land usage and the mineral trade.

A number of officials in the provincial Party committee are not sufficiently proactive in the fight against corruption.

Some government departments operate secret accounts containing public funds.

Fujian province

Some government leaders are too close to businessmen, and corruption is particularly prevalent in the land development sector.

There are many prefecture- and county-level “naked officials” — government leaders whose spouses and children have migrated overseas.

Misconduct is rampant in education, health, justice and environment protection.

Shandong province

Some government leaders and members of their families interfered in the bidding for public projects and decisions involving land usage.

Several officials collaborated with businessmen to make fraudulent bids for public projects.

Graft is widespread in education, health, justice and environment protection, and many officials are involved.

Some officials have illegally acquired a number of apartments.

Henan province

Some employees offer bribes to obtain promotions, while many accept gifts and money during traditional festivals.

There is evidence of fraud in the bidding process for public projects.

Hainan province

Officials have in some cases sought to benefit financially from their control over land use, real estate development and public projects.

Gansu province

Corruption is found in State-owned enterprises and the mineral resources and transportation sectors. Some officials have interfered in public projects, resulting in huge losses of State funds.

The supervision of poverty-reduction funds is not effective, and many officials have set up companies illegally.

Ningxia Hui autonomous region

Some officials, along with their children, own businesses that operate in the sectors they control.

Others have interfered in the bidding for public projects and the trade in natural resources.

Cases of fraud involving agricultural funds are rampant.

Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region

Misconduct is rife in the mineral and real estate development industries.

Some government officials use their powers to create financial gains.

Many relatives of officials violate the rules covering the running of businesses.

Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps

Corruption has affected building projects, the purchase of agricultural materials and farmland contracts, and there have been losses of State-owned assets.

Experts call eff ort thorough, effective Editor’s note: Early this month, China Daily invited three clean-governance experts to share their thoughts on this year’s anti-graft campaign. Here is a summary of the dialogue.