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China's transition from a Soviet-style socialist economy (where there wasn't much space to be corrupt, and in which Mao tried using the Cultural Revolution to create an atmosphere of continuous revolution to purge any inklings of corruption) to a socialist market economy created avenues for government officials to make corrupt earnings. For a time, the CPC tolerated a base level of corruption in exchange for quickly facilitating industrial development and investment from the West (e.g. a government official works faster when bribed than when not, and foreign companies are generally used to bribing because that's what they always do).

Over time however, this kind of corruption invites anti-government sentiment, allows bourgeois ideas to permeate government officials, and could lead to Soviet-style collapse where the corrupt officials decide they want to become the new bourgeoisie. Once China's economic growth slowed down a bit, the cost of bribes also became more of a drain on development.

This is why Xi Jinping began a massive anti-corruption campaign in 2012 and initiated reforms of China’s anti-corruption state institutions. This campaign was originally led by the Supreme People's Procuratorate (China's national prosecutorial agency), which silently collected evidence on corrupt officials until evidence against them was overwhelming and they could be thrown in jail.

To see how they operate, you can watch the TV series In the Name of the People ( English subtitles here; https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJpCdaWK6PVpeWbeUSjw4dBWt5IKK5Buj ). The series shows how prosecutors work to combat corruption in a fictional provincial government, and was officially funded by the Supreme People's Procuratorate so the Chinese public could understand how fighting corruption worked. You'll notice that the officials who report corruption will get lighter sentences if they themselves are corrupt, or even advance if they themselves are clean.

In 2018, China transferred the task of investigating corruption to a new department, the National Supervisory Commission (国家监察委员会), which has broader powers to investigate corruption within both the government as well as the Communist Party via its co-located sister agency, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中国共产党中央纪律检查委员会). This lets China attack corruption at the state and party level.

Ultimately, corruption is a result of the incentives that exist for government officials. Only by changing these incentives can you remove the possibility of corruption. For example, a dirt-poor state will never be able to stop corruption, because even the government officials will be desperate to get money. Corruption will also flourish if officials are not punished severely (e.g. by firing squad) for it. Fighting corruption must also be seen as a viable pathway for career advancement to incentivize officials to snitch on others' corruption.

China is building a base level of wealth to make corruption unnecessary, anti-corruption prosecutorial institutions to make corruption dangerous, and an atmosphere that combatting corruption is good for one's career (so officials snitch on others' corruption) so that corruption becomes impossible.

It's called the CPC (Communist Party of China), the acronym "CCP" is used by western imperialists and their propagandists.

There are always individuals who will try to enrich themselves or advance their personal interests to the detriment of the people/state.

This is the most annoying bit of liberal propaganda that I see. Not that this is not a true fact. This one statement in a void is true. What is incorrect is the fact that people see this happen in the west, and call it corruption. When their definition of corruption only hold true when you apply it to socialism, which is a system that works for the proletariat.

Liberals like to scream about "corrupt" politicians in the west. Stating that, these politicians are corrupt for taking bribes from rich people and companies, and thus pushing policies that help them, at the expense of the working class. They call this corruption because they have spent a century trying to convince people that the government of a CAPITALIST nation, somehow works for the people.

That, in fact, is not how things work. Corruption within a system means some force is working against the intent of the system. On a capitalist system, a politician that takes money from the capitalist class, and then aids the capitalist class, is JUST the system working as it's intended. Western politicians aren't corrupt, they are just working as intended.

This is why, when we see all these things happening and all these "corrupt" western politicians, nothing ever happens to them. They continue business as usual. BUT when you see a politician that is actually trying to HELP the working class, at the expense of the capitalist, that IS corruption of a capitalist system. And what ALWAYS happens to those people? They are slandered and attacked and pushed out. Blocked from making any real change, with massive amounts of wealth thrown at defeating them.

The thing is, if they admit to this, it might anger the people, and lead to a revolt, so they lie. They claim the government works for the people and that some politicians are corrupt, but doing anything about it would be evil gomminism. Just VOTE them out!

Meanwhile, in an actual communist country, the western use of "corruption" is ACTUAL corruption. And in many of those, is an actual crime, and punished. Within the CPC, it could even mean an actual death sentence. At bare minimum it is an immediate removal from the party as far as I know.

I mostly don’t know, except that In the most egregious cases they’re dealt a death sentence with reprieve.