Corruption in China
Corruption has been a significant problem in the People's Republic of China. Like other socialist economies that have undertaken economic reforms, such as post-Soviet Eastern Europe and Central Asia, reform-era China has experienced increasing levels of corruption. In Transparency International's 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), China ranked 76th out of 182 countries, with a score of 43 out of 100. The Unbundled Corruption Index (UCI), which distinguishes among different types of corruption, shows that when compared to other developing countries, corruption in China is dominated by "access money" (elite exchanges of power and wealth), rather than petty bribery or extortion. Public surveys on the mainland since the late 1980s have shown that corruption is among the top concerns of the general public. According to Yan Sun, Associate Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York, it was cadre corruption, rather than a demand for democracy as such, that lay at the...
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