Magazine

Table: A National Disease

Posted on October 28, 2001

Major Corruption CasesJULY, 1998

Beijing Party Secretary Chen Xitong escapes execution but is sentenced to 16 years for corruption.NOVEMBER, 1999

Investigators in Xiamen uncover a $6 billion smuggling and corruption racket involving senior provincial officials.JANUARY, 2000

Beijing reports that in 1999, corruption ate up 12% of the resettlement budget for the Three Gorges Dam megaproject.MARCH

Hu Changqing, deputy governor of Jiangxi, is executed for taking bribes totaling $658,000.SEPTEMBER

Cheng Kejie, a national legislator, is executed for taking some $5 million in bribes.DECEMBER

Investigators unearth corruption involving organized crime infiltrating the Shenyang city government.

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