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[quote=KATRINA,318218]Draft Amendments to the Criminal Law (7) has been submitted to the Standing Committee of NPC for discussion. According to Xinhua News, those who commit financial crimes, take bribes or have corruption problems will be punished more severely. As for those who commit crime of holding a huge amount of property with unidentified sources, the sentence will be raised from 5 years imprisonment to 10 years. What does it suggest? China is trying to curb the corruption by make more serious punishments on those criminals.

Xie Mingzhong's case is a good example. Xie was the Secretary of the Wenchang (a city in Hainan Province) Municipal Party Committee. He had taken bribe of 18 million yuan when he was the Secretary of the Wenchang Municipal Party Committee. He also holds 8 million yuan with unidentified sources. Finally, he was sentenced to death penalty with two years reprieve. Meanwhile, his polictical rights will be stripped off for lifetime and his personal property will be confiscated.

The wants to make Xie Mingzhong an example for other offcials. However, some people doubt if serious punishments can curb the corruption. According to the Criminal Law, those who corrupts more than 10 thousand yuan, if the circumstances are serious, will be possible to be sentenced to death. But why are those offcials still risking their lives to corrupt money or take bribes?

What do you think of this? Can serious punishments curb the corruption?[/quote]

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