China launches TV series about the Communist Party’s struggle against corruption

Almaty. 8 September. Silkroadnews - China launches TV series about the Communist Party’s struggle against corruption, the Singapore information portal The Straits Times reported.
China started screening on TV a new political documentary film on the Communist Party’s measures to combat corruption. Many details of corruption cases were revealed for the first time, the report said.
It is reported that the five-episode documentary “Sharp Sword of Inspection” was jointly filmed by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and China Central Television. It is being aired by CCTV with one episode each day.
The series features interviews with nearly 20 corrupt senior officials, including Wu Changshun, the former Tianjin police chief, and Wang Min, the former head of the Liaoning province Party, sentenced to life imprisonment for a 146-million-yuan bribe. In the interview, they express their regrets and confessions over their misdeeds.
“Inspection, or xunshi, proves to be an effective tool for fighting corruption. Among the corruption cases probed by the top anti-graft watchdog, about 60 per cent of the indicators of corruption were collected by the inspection teams. The discipline inspection commission has launched 12 rounds of inspections at 277 party and government departments, state-owned enterprises, institutes and universities since the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress in 2012”, the publication reads.
According to the Minister of Supervision and deputy head of the discipline inspection commission, Yang Xiaodu, 256,000 cases of bribery were registered during January-June period this year, compared to 193,000 cases over the same period a year earlier.