China's State Council, or the cabinet, appointed the head of National Corruption Prevention Bureau, a brand new and first ever anti-corruption agency in Beijing Thursday.
Ma Wen, the newly appointed Minister of Supervision, was appointed head of the bureau, with Qu Wanxiang, Vice Minister of Supervision, as the deputy head, according to a press release issued by the State Council.
"China sets up such a high-powered national corruption prevention body as one of the efforts to apply the United Nations Convention against Corruption," Ren said.
It was also driven by domestic need to curb corruption in government departments.
I'm sure
this is a step in the right direction, however, I'm not sure the United Nations Convention against Corruption is a great model to start with. If there is a more useless, and often more damaging, international organization I'm not aware of it.
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