China's leading industrial and commercial center, Shanghai has dealt with a total of 2,470 cases involving abuses of power in the past five years.
The majority of those cases, 1,954, involved bribe-taking and embezzlement of public funds, and 456 cases involved dereliction of duty by civil servants, said recently Wu Guangyu, head of the Shanghai Municipal People's Procuratorate.
Meanwhile, Shanghai's various procuratorate departments also dealt with 1,554 cases of embezzlement and bribery uncovered inside state-owned enterprises, involving more than 2 billion yuan (about US$241 million), and punished numerous "worms in the apples" who attempted to line their own pockets by taking advantage of restructuring of state-owned enterprises.
Local procuratorate departments have advised relevant organizations, to help them improve management rules and plug loopholes to prevent fresh corruption cases occurring, and have worked with government authorities in charge of construction to prevent corruption at the city's major projects.
(Xinhua News Agency March 3, 2003)
