A change in policy

Normally, the Ch!ne$e would block the news about gov't official corruptions to be published in newspapers, online or not. But lately, there have been lots and lots of corrupted officials being caught and then published for public to read.

One case was this Nanjing official. She had been fast tracked thru the ranks. At the age of 22, she joined the party; at 38, she was sent to New Zealand for overseas study. Been a city, province People's representative... Now she was caught with 28Kg worth of cash. RMB 7.9 Millions and USD 500K. She has been sentenced to death.

Picture of the money and the lady caught (Originally shown in Xinmin.cn)



Another case involved a group of city officials in Guangdong province; they used public fund to travel thru Hong Kong, South Africa, Egypt, to name a few countries. And the worst part, someone did a documentary and then it was leaked out to the Net. Clips and clips of the tour. That was suppose to be a "study" tour. Sign....

With the economic downturn, I expect there will be more and more of this type of revelations, making this as a deterrent to other "active" officials and a demonstration to the citizens this gov't is open.

There are so many people and so many layers of gov'ts; if not stopping the abuses doesn't matter if there are USD 3 trillions in reserve, it can quite easily be gone.