Corruption prevention campaign targets key projects

The Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) on Thursday announced a campaign to monitor 100 major projects that could be vulnerable to corruption.

According to an SPP circular, various procuratorates should launch meticulously-planned and step-by-step guides for supervising projects within their jurisdictions.

These prosecutorial organs are required to submit annual supervision reports on long-term projects to their superiors, and a final report should be handed to the occupational crimes prevention office under the SPP for review once a project is completed.

The 100 projects listed are mostly major ones that are closely related to people's livelihoods, including the south-to-north water diversion project.

The project is the largest of its kind in the world, and is designed to take water from China's longest river, the Yangtze, to arid northern regions, including Beijing, via eastern, central and western routes. It started with the construction of the eastern route in 2002.

The SPP urged procuratorates at all levels to focus on a project's key phases, fields and positions that are vulnerable to official misconduct and draft specific countermeasures to prevent corruption.

The campaign is aimed at "reducing systematic obstacles and management loopholes to the utmost and preventing occupational crimes at the source," according to the circular.