TOP 10 EXAMPLES of corruption

1. Illegally helping others to acquire documents or qualifications, such as permanent residence permits for Hong Kong or Macao or permits for logging.

2. Practicing favoritism, such as helping companies win contracts for multimillion-yuan contracts, awarding contracts for the operating rights of expressways to companies offering unreasonably low tenders, or helping companies become national procurement suppliers.

3. Helping businesses to obtain illegal loans, engaging in illegal fundraising, or using public funds to provide financial aid to companies

4. Illegally helping others to acquire land or real estate, such as helping companies handle land acquisition procedures illegally, letting companies buy or exploit land at a very low price, obtaining demolition compensation for unqualified parties.

5. Illegally helping others to run companies in violation of laws and regulations. This includes forging documents to successfully launch, restructure or list a company, or illegally helping companies to acquire State-owned shares. Aiding companies to issue shares illegally and using undue influence to resolve raw material supply problems or financial disputes.

6. Illegally helping others to obtain promotion, retain their posts, transfer to new jobs or be hired.

7. Aiding and abetting crimes, such as covering up illegal behavior, aiding the illegal import and export of goods or interfering in the judicial process.

8. Embezzlement and misappropriation of public funds, such as buying bonds through State loans and misappropriating the interest, false accounting, using fictional projects to obtain State funds, or misappropriating expensive gifts.

9. Abusing power by supporting and condoning illegal actions, arbitrary introduction of projects from overseas, and severely damaging to State assets.

10. Striking "power and sex" deals, such as bankrolling financially dependent lovers or committing bigamy.

Wu Wencong

(China Daily USA 08/22/2013 page6)