The Characteristics of China Secretary Corruption: a Case Study

Abstract

In contrast to the other kinds of official corruption, the secretary corruption is more concealed, as the secretary position downplays in most of the situations. Secretary position is also regarded as the cradle of the future higher officials tacitly, so the secretary corruption has more serious and profound influence on China regime. The paper set out to analyze the secretary corruption with Li Zhen's case as the example. The paper intends to discuss secretary corruption in the perspective of guanxi, a common phenomenon in unique China social condition. The paper concludes that the secretary corruption's reasons are similar to the reasons for other kinds of official corruptions. However, the secretary position, as the position beside the senior, is unique and can get the informal power easily, so the corrupted secretary can make rent-seeking for his/her informal power, although the secretary is stipulated to have no so much official power. The guanxi net beside the secretary is more obscure, but it does not mean the secretary corruption is less adverse. On the contrary, the secretary corruption would be more serious because of the ubiquitousness and obscurity of secretary position in China society.