Group Corruption Research

The corruption has become the obstinate illness of the society, which is a sign of unharmonious society. The- essay analyses the background of Chinese social transition period simply. Under this background the essay discusses the current trend of corruption in nowadays china, from individual to group corraption. The essay first summarizes some returns of the theories, which are about rent seeking and the corruption. According to the development of the realism and the returns above, the essay defines the meaning the group corruption. The essay analyses the main forms and features of group corruption in china now through the typical group corruption case taken place in Chen Zhou, Hu Nan province in September of the year 2006. 158 officials and businessmen had relations with the case. Then the essay analyses the cause of why corruption became collectivization and it became a kind of trend, in the view of macro and micro institution in transitional china, from the perspective of politics, economy, laws and the culture. It points out that the flaws of the political institution gave the chance. In political institution the public power is too great to influence the market, and it doesn't make, separation of enterprise from administration. So it results in group corruption easily in the form of cooperation between the officials and businessmen. The authority and responsibility system, personnel system and the performance of evaluation system are not logical. The flaw of the control system makes the power owned by only one leader, and others can't supervise the leaders well. The flaws of the economic institution give group corruption the chance of getting more economic resources. It is found expression in unclear established ownership, flaws of the public finance system, tax evasion, setting up small exchequer, and the inconsistency in the motivating system between the higher social class and the lower salary. The flaws of laws also give group corruption enough space. So far there hasn't been an integrated law against the corruption. Thus there is no legal and authoritative definition on the kinds of corruption behavior. The evil elements from the feudal society and traditional culture have important negative influence on group corruption. Then on the base of analyzing the causes of group corruption, the essay offers a series of countermeasures and suggestions. Managing corruption is a systematic problem. However the reasons of group corruption's development are complicated, so we should manage corruption from many sides: perfecting the flaws of systems, strengthening the power control, separating the power properly, perfecting the control system and the motivating system more. Perfecting the supervision system, first the center should give supervisory organs independent function of supervision, and then adjust the officials aperiodically, and pick up the steps of the opening government affairs. In the economic institution, the center should fetch up the flaws to build up the gaps of group rent-seeking, accelerating the transition of government function, pushing the government procurement system and the system of public project's competitive bidding, reforming the administrative approval system and the public finance system, strengthening controlling the budgetary funds, stopping parts of the finance fund running out of the system, and establishing proper clean-fingered motivating system. Perfecting the laws, which publish the group corruption behavior rigorously and increase the risk cost of group corruption, and also cooperate with other countries together against the corruption. Finally, the essay suggests establishing the new culture, building the uncorrupted environment. It's a long way to beat the corruption for us, but we should have the solidarity to insist on it, and then we have more hope to finish it. People will live and work in peace and contentment, which provides good environment for the development of Chinese politics and economy.