From Shanghai Daily:
Several loopholes remain in the legislation China has designed to stamp out commercial bribery, according to a blue paper on the development of the country’s legal system this year.
The paper, released by the Social Sciences Academic Press, says current laws are not strict enough and the penalties are too lenient at both legislative and executive level.
The number of commercial bribery cases dealt with by Chinese courts rose to 4,406 in the first seven months, 8.2 percent more than the same period last year, according to the Supreme People’s Court.
Commercial bribery involving corporate wrongdoings rose 37.3 percent and cases relating to individual employees of companies jumped by 52.1 percent.
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