Closing The Graft Gap

Over the past decade, more than 100 provincial and ministry-level officials across China have been investigated -- and sometimes convicted. The number of department directors, bureau chiefs and county leaders charged with corruption has been even higher.

As China's anti-corruption campaign gathers force day by day, occasionally punctuated by news of senior officials falling from grace, the public has been given a general impression of a nation infected with more graft than ever before.