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Hello. Today corruption in China runs deep, and so does the campaign to stop it.

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High profile cases of corruption have been hitting the headlines in China recently.

Among the companies caught up in the latest allegations of bribery is the global health care giant

Glaxo-Smith Klein with two of its British managers recently arrested and whisked off

into the labyrinthine Chinese justice system.

But this latest anti-graft initiative is not just aimed at big business.

The Communist Party leadership has also shown it prepared to turn the spotlight on itself. Nobody it seems is immune from investigation.

But if China's leaders are really serious about stamping out bribes and backhanders, they have a massive task on their hands.

As Martin Patience reports, it's a culture which is still deeply ingrained in Chinese

society.

Barely a day goes by in China without news of yet another senior official sacked for corruption.

Since he began taking up the reins of power almost two years ago, President she Jing Ping has made fighting corruption

his administration's top priority. He stresses that unless the Communist Party cleans up

his act, then its very existence is at stake.

In colourful languages, he's promised to go after the flies, low-level officials, and the

Tigers top leaders who are engaged in the practice and it's clear some are pretty

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