With "tigers" in the dock and reform in the headlines, 2013 may prove to have been a springboard for major change in the justice system, especially in transparency, legal experts say.
President Xi Jinping called for a zero-tolerance approach toward corruption in the political and legal systems on Wednesday and said any "black sheep must be removed".
The annual political consultative conference of Guangdong province will be shortened to four days this year, making it the shortest conference since 2004.
China's procuratorial authorities investigated 27,236 embezzlement and bribery cases between January and November last year, sentencing 36,907 people.
More efforts are needed to rectify officials' work styles amid the ongoing "mass-line" campaign, a senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official said on Sunday.
Spending by China's disciplinary and supervisory organs significantly dropped in 2013 as the country's anti-extravagance drive continued.
China's procuratorial organs investigated 36,907 officials suspected of corruption from January to November in 2013, the country's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said on Sunday.
Guangdong province announced progress in five recent campaigns to eliminate improper spending and waste while serving residents better, provincial officials said at a news conference on Friday.
Civil servants should firstly be model citizens abiding by the laws. If government officials can't serve as good role models in law and social morality, it is impossible for the common people to behave themselves, says an article of the China Business News.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) Thursday decided to investigate Tong Mingqian, former senior political advisor in central China's Hunan Province, for neglect of duty.
A former senior political advisor has been expelled from the Communist Party of China in Hunan province for serious violations of Party discipline and State laws, according to a statement from the Party's top anti-graft body on Thursday.
Tong Mingqian, a senior political advisor in Central China's Hunan province, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and removed from public office for serious discipline and law violations.
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