CHINA'S state prosecutors will have their power significantly boosted with two new anti-corruption laws currently being drafted by the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Deputy Procurator-General Liang Guoqing was yesterday quoted by the Hong Kong China News Agency (HKCNA) as saying that they were in the active process of formulating legislation for the Law on Penalties for Corruption and Bribery and the Procurator General's Law.
Procuratorate-General offices across the country would step up their intelligence collection through 'closer links with the masses', he said.
Mr Liang also promised that the Procuratorate would allocate more resources for anti-corruption investigations.
'The building of a clean government and anti-corruption [measures] are the two essential guarantees for our establishment of a socialist market economy. It is also the key to the success of reform and the fate of the state,' Mr Liang was quoted as saying.
Although the Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly said it is determined to crack down severely on corrupt officials, the exercise has been hampered by the absence of clear legislation and a lack of competent investigators familiar with the operation of Western businesses.
