"Complicated" and "grave" are the words the Party leadership used when announcing a five-year program against corruption on Monday.

It is complicated because corrupt officials employ every means possible to attain and get away with illegal gains. And with an increasing number of power abusers being busted, officials will become ever more careful about hiding their embezzling and taking of bribes.

It is grave because there is still an environment that breeds corruption: Decision-making power concentrated within the hands of leading officials at various levels and the lack of effective supervision over the exercising of power allow opportunities for officials to abuse the power within their hands for personal gains.