TY - JOUR AB - China has a bad reputation — justified or not — for corruption: in a recent Transparency International survey, it was listed by US and European businesspeople as one of the three most corrupt countries in Asia, though its ranking fell slightly in 1996. A national survey revealed that ordinary Chinese regard corruption as the most serious problem after inflation, though 52 per cent expressed doubt that the Government could do anything about it. In 1995, in Beijing alone, 1,085 cases of corruption were uncovered. In 1996, in the Working Report of the Supreme Peoples's Procuratorate, the Chief Procurator Zhang Siqing observed: VL - 4 IS - 2 SN - 1359-0790 DO - 10.1108/eb025766 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb025766 AU - Levi Michael AU - Ruan Fangmin PY - 1996 Y1 - 1996/01/01 TI - Corruption Legislation and Socio‐Economic Change in the People's Republic of China T2 - Journal of Financial Crime PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 116 EP - 128 Y2 - 2024/04/23 ER -