Wen urges China to combat corruption

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged authorities to work towards eliminating corruption in 2012 in an article published in Communist Party magazine “Seeking Truth,” Bloomberg reported. In the article, titled “Let Power be Exercised in the Sunshine,” Wen wrote that government at all levels should be open to public supervision and subject to stricter administrative inspection and audit. The piece came one week after Bo Xilai was suspended from his positions in the Communist Party on suspicion of “serious discipline violations;” Bo’s wife, Gu Kailai, has been implicated in the murder of British national Neil Heywood that took place last November. Separate reports showed that Gu was part of a powerful family empire that controlled a web of businesses from Beijing to the Caribbean worth at least US$126 million.