2007 Assessment

This peer-reviewed country report includes:

Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for more than 300 Integrity Indicators.

Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.

Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.

Country Facts: Statistical context for each country.

China's efforts to fight corruption are limited by China's restricted political participation and political expression, which cripple efforts to hold government officials accountable. Civil society and media are routinely prevented from acting as watchdogs. While elections do occur, they are not inclusive or impartially regulated. China's limited political discourse encourages business interests to influence government via personal relationships. Government accountability is very weak in the executive, judicial and especially the legislative branches of government. The civil service is routinely subject to political interference and citizen oversight of the civil service is effectively impossible due to limited access to information.