He was most proud, he told me, of his anti-corruption campaign.

But despite a series of anti-corruption campaigns in the last few years, most Chinese seem to believe that the problem has got worse rather than better.

Throughout most of his leadership, anti-corruption campaigns were central to his authority and policy.

Members of the government, the administration and regional governors also submitted declarations, an important first step in the anti-corruption campaign.

"The anti-corruption campaign has been sacrificed in the name of party unity," a Western diplomat said.

The officials taken down by the anti-corruption campaign are thus just a tiny fraction of those with dirt on their hands.

He felt able to do so, he said, because recent Italian anti-corruption campaigns had changed things for the better.

The move was seen as an attempt to strengthen the government's anti-corruption campaign.

President Mandela's moral authority makes his participation essential to an anti-corruption campaign.

With a brutal but effective anti-corruption campaign, they provided loans, seeds and pesticides also.