China has made a great deal of noise about clamping down on corruption amongst the ranks. One of the steps was to publish the report of the State Audit Office, which exposed upward of 4 billion yuan of embezzled funds and caused 600 cadres to lose their jobs. Now China News Weekly reports only 12 of 41 central government units and 5 of 21 provincial ones have done anything about it. In other words, a few have been punished and now it's business as usual. Another example of lip service. Until China publicly and systematically goes about uprooting corruption, all the public pronouncements aren't worth the paper they're written on.