Corruption

Communist elite normally gather once every five years in Beijing, casting ballots to decide leadership reshuffle. This year, one consensus acknowledged by most delegates is that the Party leadership has play increasingly tough against corruption.

Hundreds of thousands of corrupt officials including former Shanghai party chief Chen Liangyu have been nabbed in the past five years. Last year alone, more than 90,000 members of the Party were disciplined.

But the call for enhanced crackdown has turned increasingly louder as corruption has proved often entangled with chronicle issues such as commercial bribery, coal mine accidents and arbitrary charge of fees in education and medical services.

Calling anti-corruption a national combat, they said that only after the average Chinese were mobilized to participate in the supervision of power could the Party win over the trust of the public.

Delegate Han Peixin said that supervision should target symptoms of harmful trend and establish an effective system to caution against unhealthy behavior.

"Histories and realities have repeatedly proved, any political party, if failing to prevent and curb corruption, would undoubtedly put its ruling position in peril and slip into self- destruction," said Zou Shaolu, a delegate from Yunnan.