Chinese lawmakers urge amplified anti-corruption efforts to maintain social stability

China in recent years has adopted a dual approach that combined both prevention and punishment to address the country's wide spread corruption.

A string of crooked senior officials have been investigated and punished in recent years, including former Shanghai Communist Party Chief Chen Liangyu and former director of the State Food and Drug Administration Zheng Xiaoyu.

Just five days before the NPC session started, Mi Fengjun, a senior legislator in northeastern Jilin Province, was dismissed from the national legislature for taking bribes.

China established the National Bureau of Corruption Prevention in 2007, which was created to intensify corruption fighting and conduct additional international exchanges in the field.

While lawmakers hailed the country's anti-corruption progress, they also admitted that the country still has a long way to go.

According to Hao Ruyu, vice president of the Beijing-based Capital University of Economics and Business and an NPC deputy, the lack of effective supervision against corruption has made the real estates, land management, finance and judiciary sector a hotbed for corruption.