There is an informal poll on Transparency International, home of the international non-governmental organization addressing corruption. Of course, I took my vote to get some numbers, and saw the results :

Results

Note: Transparency International online Polls are not statistically valid representations of our website users nor intend to guide or represent public opinion in any way.

In your view, how corrupt is your country?
Extremely
50% Votes: 2209
Somewhat
24% Votes: 1062
Not very
16% Votes: 708
Not at all
9% Votes: 413


4404 total votes

That is a surprisingly a lot : 25% for “not at all” and “not very” together. Bribery is improved when I find that it is harder to buy car licenses in Shanghai. For instance, car license exams, computers take over places where human corruption is more likely, and you cannot bribe computers easily when the testers have no control but press a “Start” button. Anyway, it is still not too hard to do so in nearby provinces like ZheJiang (浙江), and bribery still takes place from places down from schools up to police institutions, and much worse. These are common folks knowledge, ask them and they can tell you with vivid descriptions and examples.

Don’t take the above poll results for granted, of course. You never know who’s behind the votes. We might have some *cough* *cough* spies *cough* *shrugs*…

Anyway, a snapshot of the 2008 CPI index.

2008 CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX
country
rank		 country 2008 CPI
score		 surveys
used		 confidence range
1 Denmark 9,3 6 9.1 – 9.4
1 New Zealand 9,3 6 9.2 – 9.5
1 Sweden 9,3 6 9.2 – 9.4
12 Hong Kong 8,1 8 7.5 – 8.6
39 Taiwan 5,7 9 5.4 – 6.0
43 Macao 5,4 4 3.9 – 6.2
72 China 3,6 9 3.1 – 4.3
180 Somalia 1,0 4 0.5 – 1.4

I love the fact that there is improvement in China on corruption, but seriously we need event more improvement. I wonder, if that fundamentally flawed “inspection exemption” is just a production of bribery and corruption?

China, can you still proceed further so much on the corruption model?

A Poll on Corruption in China

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