ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the adaptation of traditional Chinese public service ethics to modern times and the effort to strengthen anticorruption institutions and authority. It discusses the passage of various anticorruption laws and policies as well as the situation of administrative ethics in China. In 1998, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the central government developed new anticorruption strategies; external control by rules, laws, and externally imposed standards are also needed. There are two components in the system: the CCP system and the government system. The CCP system is more important in developing and implementing policies related to public service ethics. The CCP and the central government started to institutionalize efforts to control power abuse in the mid-1990s. The historical development of public service ethics in China has resulted in a system of ethics that focuses on virtues that officials and governments should possess.
