China establishing new anti-corruption agency

China will establish a new anti-graft body to further pressure corrupt officials, deputy Procurator-General Qiu Xueqiang has said.
Mr. Qiu is quoted by Xinhua News Agency as saying that the plan for a new anti-graft agency was put forward by the Party committee of the Supreme People’s Procurator (SPP) and approved by the central authority.
At vice-ministerial level, a full-time member of the procurator’s committee will hold a concurrent post as head of the new anti-graft agency, Qiu said.
The new agency will be better organised and further help the SPP handle major cases, circumventing institutional obstacles, he said.
China established the anti-corruption bureau under the SPP in 1995. Mr. Qiu said that after almost 20 years of development, it was struggling to meet the demands of anti-corruption work under the new circumstances due to the poor effectiveness of handling corruption cases.